The Metabolism of Islands

• Autore: Singh Simron
• Pubblicazione: 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
• Persona (resp. second.): Fischer-KowalskiMarina; ChertowMarian; SinghSimron
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Metabolism of Islands
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910557746303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II