The World System and the Earth System (eBook, PDF)

Global Socioenvironmental Change and Sustainability Since the Neolithic
Redaktion: Hornborg, Alf; Crumley, Carole L

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Produktbeschreibung

Contributors from a wide spectrum of disciplines, including archaeology, anthropology, geography, ecology, palaeo-science, geology, sociology, and history discuss the complex ways in which human culture, economy, and demographics interact with ecology and climate change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 407
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315416847
• Artikelnr.: 49364512

Autorenporträt

Hornborg, Alf; Crumley, Carole L

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Contributors
Introduction: Conceptualizing Socioecological Systems
Part I: Modeling Socioecological Systems: General Perspectives
1. Historical Ecology: Integrated Thinking at Multiple Temporal and Spatial Scales
2. Toward Developing Synergistic Linkages between the Biophysical and the Cultural: A Palaoenvironmental Perspective
3. Integration of World and Earth Systems: Heritage and Foresight
4. World-Systems as Complex Human Ecosystems
5. Lessons from Population Ecology for World-Systems Analyses of Long-Distance Synchrony
6. Sustainable Unsustainability: Toward a Comparative Study of Hegemonic Decline in Global Systems
Part II: Case Studies of Socioenvironmental Change in Prehistory
7. Agrarian Landscape Development in Northwestern Europe since the Neolithic: Cultural and Climatic Factors behind a Regional/Continental Pattern
8. Climate Change in Southern and Eastern Africa during the Past Millennium and Its Implications for Societal Development
9. World-Systems in the Biogeosphere: Urbanization
State Formation
and Climate Change Since the Iron Age
10. Eurasian Transformations: Mobility
Ecological Change
and the Transmission of Social Institutions in the Third Millennium and the Early Second Millennium B.C.E.
11. Climate
Water
and Political-Economic Crises in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt
12. Ages of Reorganization
13. Sustainable Intensive Exploitation of Amazonia: Cultural
Environmental
and Geopolitical Perspectives
14. Regional Integration and Ecology in Prehistoric Amazonia: Toward a System Perspective
Part III: Is the World System Sustainable? Attempts toward an Integrated Socioecological Perspective
15. The Human-Environment Nexus: Progress in the Past Decade in the Integrated Analysis of Human and Biophysical Factors
16. In Search of Sustainability: What Can We Learn from the Past?
17. Political Ecology and Sustainability Science: Opportunity and Challenge
18. No Island is an "Island": Some Perspectives on Human Ecology and Development in Oceania
19. Infectious Diseases as Ecological and Historical Phenomena
with Special Reference to the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
20. Evidence from Societal Metabolism Studies for Ecological Unequal Trade
21. Entropy Generation and Displacement: The Nineteenth-Century Multilateral Network of World Trade
References
Index