1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457075303321

Titolo

The world system and the Earth system : global socioenvironmental change and sustainability since the Neolithic / / Alf Hornborg & Carole L. Crumley, eds

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-41684-0

1-315-41685-9

1-59874-745-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (409 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CrumleyCarole L

HornborgAlf

Disciplina

304.2

333.7

Soggetti

Ecology

Climatic changes

Environmental sciences

Human ecology

Social ecology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2006 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-379) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Contributors; Introduction: Conceptualizing Socioecological Systems; Part I Modeling Socioecological Systems: General Perspectives; 1 Historical Ecology: Integrated Thinking at Multiple Temporaland Spatial Scales; 2 Toward Developing Synergistic Linkages betweenthe Biophysical and the Cultural: A PalaoenvironmentalPerspective; 3 Integration of World and Earth Systems:Heritage and Foresight; 4 World-Systems as Complex Human Ecosystems; 5 Lessons from Population Ecology for World-SystemsAnalyses of Long-Distance Synchrony

6 Sustainable Unsustainability: Toward a Comparative Study of Hegemonic Decline in Global SystemsPart II Case Studies of Socioenvironmental Change in Prehistory; 7 Agrarian Landscape



Development in Northwestern Europesince 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 Implicationsfor Societal Development; 9 World-Systems in the Biogeosphere: Urbanization, State Formation, and Climate Change Since the Iron Age

10 E urasian 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 inAncient 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 anIntegrated Socioecological Perspective

15 The Human-Environment Nexus: Progress in the Past Decade in the Integrated Analysis of Human and Biophysical Factors16 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 Pandemicof 1918-1919; 20 Evidence from Societal Metabolism Studies for Ecological Unequal Trade

21 Entropy Generation and Displacement:The Nineteenth-Century Multilateral Network of World TradeReferences; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this benchmark volume top scholars come together to present state-of-the-art research and pursue a more rigorous framework for understanding and studying the linkages between social and ecological systems. Contributors from a wide spectrum of disciplines, including archaeology, anthropology, geography, ecology, palaeo-science, geology, sociology, and history, present and assess both the evolution of our thinking and current, state-of-the-art theory and research. Covering ancient through modern periods, they discuss the complex ways in which human culture, economy, and demographics inte



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973425003321

Autore

Freilich Joshua D

Titolo

American militias : state-level variations in militia activities / / Joshua D. Freilich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, c2003

ISBN

1-280-36127-1

9786610361274

1-59332-044-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Criminal justice : recent scholarship

Disciplina

303.48/4

Soggetti

Militia movements - United States

Radicalism - United States

Right-wing extremists - United States

Government, Resistance to - United States

United States Social conditions 1980-2020

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-177) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Structure and ideology of the militia movement -- History of the militia movement in Michigan -- Social movement theories and the rise of the militia movement -- Explaining higher levels of militia related activities -- Economic and social disorganization, paramilitary culture, and militia related activities -- Findings -- Economics, culture, and militias.

Sommario/riassunto

Freilich attempts to determine why some states have higher levels of militia activity than others. Focusing on the years 1994-1995, he finds that cultural factors not economic conditions--are related to levels of militia related activity. In particular, states with lower levels of female empowerment and higher levels of paramilitary culture were more likely to have more militia groups. Conversely, neither economic dislocation/social disorganization nor economic prosperity/social integration were related to the number of militia groups on the state level. These findings suggest that programs seeking to preempt militia formation by providing economic assistance will not be successful. Instead, such programs must confront cultural issues as well."