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

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (409 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.2; 333.7
• Soggetto topico: Ecology; Climatic changes; Environmental sciences; Human ecology; Social ecology
• Altri autori: CrumleyCarole L HornborgAlf
• 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 between the Biophysical and the Cultural: A Palao-environmental 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 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 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The world system and the Earth system
• ISBN: 1-315-41683-2; 1-315-41684-0; 1-315-41685-9; 1-59874-745-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781009503321
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