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vii In October 2008, Dolly Jørgensen and Finn Arne Jørgensen, then affiliated with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, proposed the idea for a small conference on the contributions of science and technology studies (STS) to environmental history at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology in Lisbon, Portugal. We submitted numerous grant applications on both sides of the Atlantic during 2009 and early 2010. Fortunately, generous sponsors made it possible to move forward with the workshop, which we titled “Bringing STS into Environmental History.” We were overwhelmed by the response to the call for papers. We received over seventy-five abstracts from scholars across all ranks working in various subspecialties, geographies, and time periods. They proposed diverse empirical topics and equally varied analytical tools. Both the remarkable response and the many fascinating proposals suggested that the intellectual problématique was indeed timely. We ended up discussing sixteen papers at the workshop held in Trondheim, Norway, in August 2010. The chapters appearing in this collection are drawn from those papers. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to the institutions and programs that supported the conference: the Research Council of Norway; the Norwegian University of Science and Technology’s Faculty of Humanities and Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture; Cornell University’s Institute for European Studies, Institute for the Social Sciences, David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, and Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Initiative; and the Network in Canadian History and Environment. This intellectual project and the multifaceted ways in which it has contributed to our own research, teaching, and professional collaborations would have been impossible without their generous financial support. We are also grateful to Preface the Norwegian University of Science and Technology for serving as our local institutional sponsor. We thank all of the authors for sharing their insights during the workshop and for their hard work in revising their essays to further this intellectual project. We would also like to extend our thanks to Clapperton Mavhunga, Per Østby, and Benjamin Wang, all of whom participated in the conference and helped sharpen the chapters appearing in this edited volume, as well as two anonymous reviewers who provided thoughtful comments on individual chapters and the work as a whole. Finally, Cynthia Miller at the University of Pittsburgh Press expressed early interest in this project. We greatly appreciate her support of the resulting edited volume. viii Preface [3.239.149.56] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 15:24 GMT) New Natures ...