Sebastian Haumann is professor for economic, social and environmental history at Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg (Austria). With a study on the history of limestone as an industrial resource, he received his habilitation at Technische Universität Darmstadt and has continued to work on the broader field of substance history.
Martin Knoll (Prof. Dr. phil.), born in 1969, is a professor for European regional history at the University of Salzburg, Austria. His research focuses on environmental history, cultural history of the early modern period, the historical development of city-hinterland-relations, and the history of tourism.
Detlev Mares, born in 1965, teaches modern history and history didactics at Darmstadt University of Technology. His research deals with British history, popular political culture, and the didactics of history.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 7
Urban-Environmental History as a Field of Research 9
Technosphere 21
Socio-Natural Sites 33
Materiality and Practice Theory 51
Path-Dependency and Trajectories 65
Risk and Resilience 79
Sustainability 95
Urban Metabolism 109
Material Flows and Circular Thinking 125
Urban Infrastructure and the Cultural Turn 145
Cities and Rivers 155
Urban Energy Consumption, Mobility and Environmental Legacies 167
Animals in Urban-Environmental History 191
Mobilities, Migration and Demography 203
Heritage, Renewal and the Construction of Identity in Urban History 221
Urban Heritage and Urban Development 235
Village—Small Town—Metropolis 253
European Periphery 265
Urban-Environmental Perspectives in History Teaching 275
Authors 287
Acknowledgements 291