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Ester Boserup’s legacy on sustainability [[electronic resource] ] : orientations for contemporary research / / edited by Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Anette Reenberg, Anke Schaffartzik, Andreas Mayer
| Ester Boserup’s legacy on sustainability [[electronic resource] ] : orientations for contemporary research / / edited by Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Anette Reenberg, Anke Schaffartzik, Andreas Mayer |
| Autore | Fischer-Kowalski Marina |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht, : Springer Nature, 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations, tables |
| Disciplina | 338.927 |
| Collana | Human-Environment Interactions |
| Soggetto topico |
Sustainable development
Agriculture Sociology Ecosystems Human geography Sustainable Development Gender Studies Human Geography |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Environment
Sustainable development Agriculture Sociology Ecosystems Human geography |
| ISBN | 94-017-8678-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | PART I: Ester Boserup’s Intellectual Heritage -- 1. Ester Boserup: An Interdisciplinary Visionary Relevant for Sustainability -- 2. “Finding Out Is My Life”: Conversations with Ester Boserup in the 1990s -- 3. Boserup’s Theory on Technological Change as a Point of Departure for the Theory of Sociometabolic Regime Transition -- PART II Land Use, Technology and Agriculture -- 4. The Dwindling Role of Population Pressure in Land Use Change – a Case from the South West Pacific -- 5. Conceptual and Empirical Approaches to Mapping and Quantifying Land-Use Intensity -- 6. Malthusian Assumptions, Boserupian Response in Transition to Agriculture Models -- 7. Reconciling Boserup with Malthus: Agrarian Change and Soil Degradation in Olive Orchards in Spain (1750-2000) -- 8. Beyond Boserup: The Role of Working Time in Agricultural Development -- PART III: Population and Gender -- 9. Following Boserup’s Traces: From Invisibility to Informalisation of Women’s Economy to Engendering Development in Translocal Spaces -- 10. Daughters of the Hills: Gendered Agricultural Production, Modernisation, and Declining Child Sex Ratios in the Indian Central Himalayas -- 11. Revisiting Boserup’s Hypotheses in the Context of Africa -- 12. An Interpretation of Large-Scale Land Deals Using Boserup’s Theories of Agricultural Intensification, Gender and Rural Development -- 13. Labour Migration and Gendered Agricultural Asset Shifts in Southeastern Mexico: Two Stories of Farming Wives and Daughters -- 14. Working Time of Farm Women and Small-Scale Sustainable Farming in Austria -- 15. A Human Ecological Approach to Ester Boserup: Steps Towards Engendering Agriculture and Rural Development -- 16. Conclusions: Re-Evaluating Boserup in the Light of the Contributions to this Volume. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910132340903321 |
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| Dordrecht, : Springer Nature, 2014 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ester Boserup’s legacy on sustainability [[electronic resource] ] : orientations for contemporary research / / edited by Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Anette Reenberg, Anke Schaffartzik, Andreas Mayer
| Ester Boserup’s legacy on sustainability [[electronic resource] ] : orientations for contemporary research / / edited by Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Anette Reenberg, Anke Schaffartzik, Andreas Mayer |
| Autore | Fischer-Kowalski Marina |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht, : Springer Nature, 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations, tables |
| Disciplina | 338.927 |
| Collana | Human-Environment Interactions |
| Soggetto topico |
Sustainable development
Agriculture Sociology Ecosystems Human geography Sustainable Development Gender Studies Human Geography |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Environment
Sustainable development Agriculture Sociology Ecosystems Human geography |
| ISBN | 94-017-8678-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | PART I: Ester Boserup’s Intellectual Heritage -- 1. Ester Boserup: An Interdisciplinary Visionary Relevant for Sustainability -- 2. “Finding Out Is My Life”: Conversations with Ester Boserup in the 1990s -- 3. Boserup’s Theory on Technological Change as a Point of Departure for the Theory of Sociometabolic Regime Transition -- PART II Land Use, Technology and Agriculture -- 4. The Dwindling Role of Population Pressure in Land Use Change – a Case from the South West Pacific -- 5. Conceptual and Empirical Approaches to Mapping and Quantifying Land-Use Intensity -- 6. Malthusian Assumptions, Boserupian Response in Transition to Agriculture Models -- 7. Reconciling Boserup with Malthus: Agrarian Change and Soil Degradation in Olive Orchards in Spain (1750-2000) -- 8. Beyond Boserup: The Role of Working Time in Agricultural Development -- PART III: Population and Gender -- 9. Following Boserup’s Traces: From Invisibility to Informalisation of Women’s Economy to Engendering Development in Translocal Spaces -- 10. Daughters of the Hills: Gendered Agricultural Production, Modernisation, and Declining Child Sex Ratios in the Indian Central Himalayas -- 11. Revisiting Boserup’s Hypotheses in the Context of Africa -- 12. An Interpretation of Large-Scale Land Deals Using Boserup’s Theories of Agricultural Intensification, Gender and Rural Development -- 13. Labour Migration and Gendered Agricultural Asset Shifts in Southeastern Mexico: Two Stories of Farming Wives and Daughters -- 14. Working Time of Farm Women and Small-Scale Sustainable Farming in Austria -- 15. A Human Ecological Approach to Ester Boserup: Steps Towards Engendering Agriculture and Rural Development -- 16. Conclusions: Re-Evaluating Boserup in the Light of the Contributions to this Volume. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996198252103316 |
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| Dordrecht, : Springer Nature, 2014 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Social Ecology : Society-Nature Relations across Time and Space / / edited by Helmut Haberl, Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Fridolin Krausmann, Verena Winiwarter
| Social Ecology : Society-Nature Relations across Time and Space / / edited by Helmut Haberl, Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Fridolin Krausmann, Verena Winiwarter |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (LXII, 610 p. 94 illus., 47 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina | 338.927 |
| Collana | Human-Environment Interactions |
| Soggetto topico |
Sustainable development
Sustainable Development |
| ISBN | 3-319-33326-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1 - The Archipelago of Social Ecology and the Island of the Vienna School -- Chapter 2 - Core Concepts and Heuristics -- Chapter 3 - Transitions in Sociometabolic Regimes Throughout Human History -- Chapter 4 - Beyond Inputs and Outputs: Opening the Black-Box of Land-Use Intensity -- Chapter 5 - ‘Society Can’t Move so Much as a Chair!’ - Systems, Structures and Actors in Social Ecology -- Chapter 6 - Why Legacies Matter: Merits of a Long-Term Perspective -- Chapter 7 - Toward a Socioecological Concept of Human Labor -- Chapter 8 - Long-Term Trends in Global Material and Energy Use -- Chapter 9 - More than the Sum of its Parts: Patterns in Global Material Flows -- Chapter 10 - Boundary Issues: Calculating National Material Use for a Globalized World -- Chapter 11 - How Circular is the Global Economy? A Sociometabolic Analysis -- Chapter 12 - Material Stocks and Sustainable Development. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910254126003321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Metabolism of Islands
| The Metabolism of Islands |
| Autore | Singh Simron |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (201 p.) |
| Soggetto topico |
Biology, life sciences
Ecological science, the Biosphere Research & information: general |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Antigua and Barbuda
climate change Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) construction materials demolition of buildings Faroe Islands geographical information systems (GIS) GIS global warming historical political ecology holarchy holon hurricane Irma industrial ecology industrial waste institutional island industrial ecology island metabolism island sociometabolic regime island sustainability island waste management islands landesque capital livestock herding, subsidies and overgrazing material flow analysis material flow analysis (MFA) material stock analysis metabolic profile metabolic risk metabolism MFA mixed methods approach nexus approach overgrazing plastics post-disaster stock and flow evolution public-private partnerships quiet sustainability real-world learning lab for sustainability transition resource use and efficiency rural abandonment sedentary extensive livestock systems small island developing states (SIDS) social metabolism socio-ecological systems socio-metabolic collapse socio-metabolic research soil erosion territorial metabolism tourism tourism infrastructure transdisciplinary research Trinidad and Tobago UNESCO Biosphere Reserves waste management |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910557746303321 |
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Singh Simron
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| Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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