05029oam 2200757I 450 991045707530332120200520144314.01-315-41684-01-315-41685-91-59874-745-210.4324/9781315416854 (CKB)2550000000017946(EBL)677739(OCoLC)711747339(SSID)ssj0000488530(PQKBManifestationID)11360598(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000488530(PQKBWorkID)10450143(PQKB)10755439(MiAaPQ)EBC677739(Au-PeEL)EBL677739(CaPaEBR)ebr10379860(CaONFJC)MIL955397(OCoLC)961208645(EXLCZ)99255000000001794620180706e20162006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe world system and the Earth system global socioenvironmental change and sustainability since the Neolithic /Alf Hornborg & Carole L. Crumley, edsLondon :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (409 p.)First published 2006 by Left Coast Press, Inc.1-59874-100-4 1-59874-101-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-379) and index.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 Synchrony6 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 Age10 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 Perspective15 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 Trade21 Entropy Generation and Displacement:The Nineteenth-Century Multilateral Network of World TradeReferences; IndexIn 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 inteEcologyClimatic changesEnvironmental sciencesHuman ecologySocial ecologyElectronic books.Ecology.Climatic changes.Environmental sciences.Human ecology.Social ecology.304.2333.7Crumley Carole L940071Hornborg Alf791509MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457075303321The world system and the Earth system2119621UNINA