04536nam 2201093z- 450 991055774630332120220111(CKB)5400000000045879(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/76650(oapen)doab76650(EXLCZ)99540000000004587920202201d2021 |y 0engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Metabolism of IslandsBasel, SwitzerlandMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute20211 online resource (201 p.)3-0365-0936-4 3-0365-0937-2 This book makes the case for why we should care about islands and their sustainability. Islands are hotspots of biocultural diversity and home to 600 million people that depend on one-sixth of the earth's total area, including the surrounding oceans, for their subsistence. Today, they are at the frontlines of climate change and face an existential crisis. Islands are, however, potential "hubs of innovation" that are uniquely positioned to be leaders in sustainability and climate action. This volume argues that a full-fledged program on "island industrial ecology" is urgently needed, with the aim of offering policy-relevant insights and strategies to sustain small islands in an era of global environmental change. The nine contributions in this volume cover a wide range of applications of socio-metabolic research, from flow accounts to stock analysis and their relationship to services in space and time. They offer insights into how reconfiguring patterns of resource use will allow island governments to build resilience and adapt to the challenges of climate change.Biology, life sciencesbicsscEcological science, the BiospherebicsscResearch & information: generalbicsscAntigua and Barbudaclimate changeCommon Agricultural Policy (CAP)construction materialsdemolition of buildingsFaroe Islandsgeographical information systems (GIS)GISglobal warminghistorical political ecologyholarchyholonhurricane Irmaindustrial ecologyindustrial wasteinstitutionalisland industrial ecologyisland metabolismisland sociometabolic regimeisland sustainabilityisland waste managementislandslandesque capitallivestock herding, subsidies and overgrazingmaterial flow analysismaterial flow analysis (MFA)material stock analysismetabolic profilemetabolic riskmetabolismMFAmixed methods approachnexus approachovergrazingplasticspost-disaster stock and flow evolutionpublic-private partnershipsquiet sustainabilityreal-world learning lab for sustainability transitionresource use and efficiencyrural abandonmentsedentary extensive livestock systemssmall island developing states (SIDS)social metabolismsocio-ecological systemssocio-metabolic collapsesocio-metabolic researchsoil erosionterritorial metabolismtourismtourism infrastructuretransdisciplinary researchTrinidad and TobagoUNESCO Biosphere Reserveswaste managementBiology, life sciencesEcological science, the BiosphereResearch & information: generalSingh Simronedt1324795Fischer-Kowalski MarinaedtChertow MarianedtSingh SimronothFischer-Kowalski MarinaothChertow MarianothBOOK9910557746303321The Metabolism of Islands3036310UNINA