LEADER 05029oam 2200757I 450 001 9910457075303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-315-41684-0 010 $a1-315-41685-9 010 $a1-59874-745-2 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315416854 035 $a(CKB)2550000000017946 035 $a(EBL)677739 035 $a(OCoLC)711747339 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000488530 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11360598 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000488530 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10450143 035 $a(PQKB)10755439 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC677739 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL677739 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10379860 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL955397 035 $a(OCoLC)961208645 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000017946 100 $a20180706e20162006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe world system and the Earth system $eglobal socioenvironmental change and sustainability since the Neolithic /$fAlf Hornborg & Carole L. Crumley, eds 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (409 p.) 300 $aFirst published 2006 by Left Coast Press, Inc. 311 $a1-59874-100-4 311 $a1-59874-101-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 317-379) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a6 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 327 $a10 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 327 $a15 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 327 $a21 Entropy Generation and Displacement:The Nineteenth-Century Multilateral Network of World TradeReferences; Index 330 $aIn 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 606 $aEcology 606 $aClimatic changes 606 $aEnvironmental sciences 606 $aHuman ecology 606 $aSocial ecology 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEcology. 615 0$aClimatic changes. 615 0$aEnvironmental sciences. 615 0$aHuman ecology. 615 0$aSocial ecology. 676 $a304.2 676 $a333.7 701 $aCrumley$b Carole L$0940071 701 $aHornborg$b Alf$0791509 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457075303321 996 $aThe world system and the Earth system$92119621 997 $aUNINA