Ecological infrastructure in a critical-historical perspective: From engineering ‘social’ territory to encoding ‘natural’ topography

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 367-390

  De Block, Greet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ecological urbanism; landscape ecology; post political; risk society; Technonature

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; SOCIAL HISTORY;

EID: 84953398954     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308518X15600719     Document Type: Article

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