Who Generates Demand for Sustainable Energy Transitions? Geothermal Heating in Reykjavík

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Perspectives Issue 2019/2

Odinn Melsted traces Reykjavík’s transition from coal to geothermal energy.

Experimenting with Energyscapes: Growing up with Solar and Wind in Auroville and Beyond

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Perspectives Issue 2019/2

In this article, Sarah Strauss and Carrick Eggleston track the transition to renewable energy in the village of Auroville in South India.

How Households Shape Energy Transitions: Canada’s Great Transformation

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Perspectives Issue 2019/2

Ruth Sandwell examines people’s energy-related experiences in the transition from the organic to the mineral fuel regime in Canada.

What Consumers in the Past Tell Us about Future Energyscapes

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Perspectives Issue 2019/2

Taylor and Chappells examine changing material cultures of energy in Britain and Canada.

Energizing the Spaces of Everyday Life: Learning from the Past for a Sustainable Future

About this issue

This volume of Perspectives offers case studies of energy transitions within everyday environments over the last two centuries, from Europe to South Asia, to North and Latin America.

Content

"The Global Energy Challenge — An IEA View"

This joint presentation by Varro Laszlo and Stefan Pfenninger for the ESC Symposium 2017: Global Energy Challenge provides a framework to understand the economics behind energy consumption in the past, present, and future.

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Fish Consumption

In this chapter of their virtual exhibition “‘Commanding, Sovereign Stream’: The Neva and the Viennese Danube in the History of Imperial Metropolitan Centers,” the authors discuss how the growing population required a lot of food and fish was significant part of the city dwellers’ diets. Social stratification led to the clear division between fish commodities for the wealthy and those for poor citizens, though some kinds of fish could be popular among all dwellers, regardless of social differences.

“Commanding, Sovereign Stream”:
The Neva and the Viennese Danube in the History of Imperial Metropolitan Centers

The exhibition aims to reveal and visualize the power of mighty rivers so crucially important for the history of St. Petersburg and Vienna—the major imperial centers of continental Europe in the modern era.

Gertrud Haidvogl, Alexei Kraikovski, and Julia Lajus

About the author

Haidvogl, Gertrud

Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management (IHG), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Austria

Gertrud Haidvogl studied history at the University of Vienna. She works at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, and is specialized in the history of riverine landscapes and historical changes of fish populations. Haidvogl is a member of the Center for Environmental History Vienna.

Kraikovski, Alexei

Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History at National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia

Alexei Kraikovski graduated from St. Petersburg University and got his PhD in history from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2005. He is Associate Professor of History and Senior Research Fellow at at the Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History at National Research University Higher School of Economics. His research interests include marine environmental history, urban history, the history of urban rivers, economic history, historical geography, and resource studies.

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Lajus, Julia

Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History at National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia

Julia Lajus has a Candidate of Science degree (Russian PhD degree) from the Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences. She is Associate Professor of History and Leading Research Fellow at at the Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History at National Research University Higher School of Economics. Her research interests include the environmental history of biological resources, especially in marine and polar areas, and the history of field sciences such as fisheries and oceanography. Julia Lajus served as the vice president of the European Society of Environmental History (ESEH) from 2011-2015.

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Hausmüll: Abfall und Gesellschaft in Westdeutschland 1945–1990

Hausmüll documents the rise of a “new” environmental problem in post-war Germany, that of an increase in consumption and consequently a dramatic increase in waste.

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Ilha das Flores [Isle of Flowers]

This short film follows a spoiled tomato as it moves through the Brazilian food chain.

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The Happy Poet

This comedy drama is about a struggling poet who starts a healthy food stand to change the way people eat, and faces the complicated challenges of fighting against the system.

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consumption

About this issue

Fish Consumption

“Commanding, Sovereign Stream”: The Neva and the Viennese Danube in the History of Imperial Metropolitan Centers

About the author

Browse the exhibition

“Commanding, Sovereign Stream”:
The Neva and the Viennese Danube in the History of Imperial Metropolitan Centers