Search for dissertations about: "Geological history"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 54 swedish dissertations containing the words Geological history.

  2. 1. Planetary Timemaking : Paleoclimatology and the Temporalities of Environmental Knowledge, 1945-1990

    Author : Erik Isberg; Sverker Sörlin; Sabine Höhler; Adam Wickberg; Etienne Benson; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; paleoclimatology; environmental history; temporality; ice core; deep-sea core; North Atlantic; timemaking; theory of history; planetary-scale environmental knowledge; paleoklimatologi; miljöhistoria; temporalitet; iskärna; borrkärna; Nordatlanten; tidsskapande; historieteori; planetär miljökunskap; History of Science; Technology and Environment; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö;

    Abstract : This thesis concerns the history of paleoclimatology in the postwar period. It follows the trajectory of two climate proxy records – ice cores and deep-sea cores – in the North Atlantic region, from their emergence as scientific objects in the 1940s to their incorporation into Earth System Science in the 1980s. READ MORE

  4. 2. Coal Lives : Italians and the Metabolism of Coal in Wallonia, Belgium, 1945-1980

    Author : Daniele Valisena; Marco Armiero; Sverker Sörlin; Don Mitchell; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; environmental humanities; migration; environmental history; coal; mining; metabolism; Italians; ECSC; heritage; toxicity; geo-history; walking methodology; minatori; emigrazione; storia delle migrazioni; storia ambientale; CECA; patrimonio culturale; tossicità; metabolismo; geostoria; mineurs italiens; migration; CECA; patrimoine; metabolisme; geo-histoire; histoire de l environnement; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö; History of Science; Technology and Environment;

    Abstract : This manuscript focuses on the relationship between coal and the history of the over 300,000 Italian miners who moved to Wallonia, Belgium, from 1946 onwards, in accordance to the State agreement between Italy and Belgium known as “men in exchange for coal.” Notably, I use environmental history of migration to analyze what I define as “the metabolism of coal. READ MORE

  5. 3. Embracing Science : Sino-Swedish Collaborations in the Field Sciences, 1902–1935

    Author : Jan Romgard; Marja Kaikkonen; Stephen Morgan; Hans Ulrich Vogel; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Republican China; history of science; Geological Survey of China; Academia Sinica; Ding Wenjiang; Weng Wenhao; geology; palaeontology; archaeology; palaeoanthropology; geography; modernization; nationalism; scientific communities; international collaboration; Johan Gunnar Andersson; Sven Hedin; Erik Nyström; Swedish Museum of Natural History; Sino-Swedish Expedition; Central Asia; Asian Languages and Cultures; Asiens språk och kulturer;

    Abstract : In 1902, a Swedish professor at Shanxi University started to study the region’s geology and in 1913, he suggested to the Chinese Republican Government an expansion of these surveys nationwide. As a result, the Head of the Geological Survey of Sweden, J. G. Andersson, was employed as a geological adviser to the Chinese Government. READ MORE

  6. 4. The Specter of Scarcity : Experiencing and Coping with Metal Shortages, 1870-2015

    Author : Hanna Vikström; Per Högselius; Dag Avango; Fjaestad Maja; Ingulstad Mats; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; scarcity; critical metals; Sweden; small countries; strategic metals; metal shortages; history of technology; experiences of scarcity; coping with shortages; technological trends; World War I; resource crisis; construction of resources.; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö; History of Science; Technology and Environment;

    Abstract : In spite of an ever-growing supply of metals, actors have long feared metal shortages. This thesis – departing from an understanding that metals scarcity is not an objective geological fact, but an experience, a fear of a shortage – explores why business and state actors have experienced metals as scarce and how they coped with scarcity from 1870 to 2015. READ MORE

  7. 5. The Northward Course of the Anthropocene : Transformation, Temporality and Telecoupling in a Time of Environmental Crisis

    Author : Eric Paglia; Sverker Sörlin; Nina Wormbs; Charles Parker; John McNeill; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Anthropocene; Arctic; Fernand Braudel; environmental and climate crisis; environmental history; expertise; polar geopolitics; securitization; Svalbard; telecoupling; History of Science; Technology and Environment; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö; Statsvetenskap med inriktning mot krishantering och internationell samverkan;

    Abstract : The Arctic—warming at twice the rate of the rest of the planet—is a source of striking imagery of amplified environmental change in our time, and has come to serve as a spatial setting for climate crisis discourse. The recent alterations in the Arctic environment have also been perceived by some observers as an opportunity to expand economic exploitation. READ MORE