The Social Metabolism : A Socio-Ecological Theory of Historical Change

• Autore: González de Molina Manuel
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024; ©2023
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (434 pages)
• Disciplina: 304.2
• Altri autori: ToledoVíctor M
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Worrying About the Future -- 1.2 Exploring the Past -- 1.3 Book Contents -- References -- 2 Environmental History as Sustainability Science -- 2.1 History and the Crisis of Modern Civilization -- 2.2 Environmental History, a Hybrid Discipline -- 2.3 Sustainability Science -- 2.4 A Frame for Sustainability -- 2.5 A New Cognitive Frame and New Valuation Languages -- 2.6 A New Axiology -- 2.7 What is Environmental History -- 2.8 The Goals of Environmental History -- 2.9 Environmental History, an Alternative View of the Human Past -- 2.10 Is Environmental History Anachronic or Ephemeral? -- 2.11 The Theoretical Foundations of Environmental History -- 2.12 Environmental History and the Coevolution of Nature and Society -- 2.13 Environmental History as a Transdiscipline -- 2.14 Sustainability, the New "Sense" of History -- 2.15 Epistemological Foundations of Environmental History -- 2.16 History as a Post-normal Science -- 2.17 Environmental History and the Ecological Paradigm -- 2.18 A New Social Function for History: Species Memory -- References -- 3 Social Metabolism: Origins, History, Approaches, and Main Schools -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 A Stellar Concept -- 3.3 The Origins -- 3.4 Darwin and Marx in London -- 3.5 The Key Writings of Alfred Schmidt -- 3.6 Marx and Energy Flows -- 3.7 The Rediscovery of Social Metabolism -- 3.8 Industrial Metabolism -- 3.9 Urban Metabolism -- 3.10 Agrarian or Rural Metabolism -- 3.11 Regional Metabolism -- 3.12 National Metabolism -- 3.13 The Main Schools of Social Metabolism -- 3.14 The Terms and Definition of the Socio-metabolic Approach -- 3.15 The Scope of the Metabolic Approach -- 3.16 Operational Tools -- 3.17 Stock/Flow Versus Flow/Fund Approaches -- 3.18 Main Applications -- 3.19 Other Topics, Other Domains of Metabolic Research. ; 3.20 Main Gaps and Questions to Solve -- References -- 4 The Biophysical Bases of Social Metabolism -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Society is also Nature -- 4.3 Society as an Adaptive Complex System -- 4.4 Entropy and Negentropy in Social Systems -- 4.5 The Evolutionary Originality of Human Societies -- 4.6 Evolution, Complexity, and Sustainability -- 4.7 Material and Energy Flows, Entropy, and Dissipative Structures -- 4.8 Information Flows -- 4.9 Physical Entropy: The Thermodynamic Foundation of Social Metabolism -- 4.10 Internal Entropy and External Entropy -- References -- 5 The Social and Political Basis of Social Metabolism -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Social Entropy -- 5.3 Social Order and Information Flows -- 5.4 The Thermodynamic Roots of Inequality -- 5.5 The Modalities of Social Inequity -- 5.6 Market, Money, and Entropy -- 5.7 Negentropy and Institutions -- 5.8 Conflict, Protest, and Metabolic Change -- 5.9 Environmental Protest and Its Metabolic Function -- 5.10 Environmental Conflicts as Social Conflicts -- 5.11 Political Institutions -- 5.12 Political Entropy -- References -- 6 The Basic Model -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Metabolic Processes -- 6.3 The Flows-Fund/Stocks Nexus -- 6.4 Funds or Stocks? -- 6.5 Biophysical Funds -- 6.6 Social Funds: The Human Population -- 6.7 Other Social Funds/Stocks -- 6.8 Metabolic Flows: Energy, Emergy, and Exergy -- 6.9 The Tangible and the Intangible. Information Flows -- 6.10 Socio-metabolic Relationships and the Institutional Framework -- 6.11 The Basic Model -- 6.12 The Structure of Nature: Ecosystems and Landscapes -- 6.13 The Colonization of Nature -- 6.14 Nature in Space: The Three Mega-Environments -- 6.15 Who Appropriates Nature? -- 6.16 Excretion: What is Excreted to Nature by Human Societies? -- 6.17 The Analysis of Social Metabolism: Space and Time. ; 6.18 Social Metabolism and the Hierarchical Order -- References -- 7 Social Metabolism at the Local Scale -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Punta Laguna Case Study of Rural Metabolism -- 7.3 The Dual Nature of Labor -- 7.4 The Appropriation of Nature -- 7.5 The Basic Appropriation Unit: P -- 7.6 A Flow Model -- 7.7 The Material Flows -- 7.8 Ecological and Economic Exchanges -- 7.9 Use Value and Exchange Value -- 7.10 Commodities -- 7.11 Exchange of Equivalents and Unequal Exchanges -- 7.12 The Rural Metabolism of Punta Laguna -- 7.13 Santa Fe: The Agroecosystem Metabolism Transformation -- 7.14 An Agroecosystem in Territorial Equilibrium -- 7.15 The Disequilibrium of an "Advanced Organic Economy" -- 7.16 1934: The Beet Crisis and the Diversification of Crops -- 7.17 Agricultural Production Partially Dissociated from Its Territory -- 7.18 Biomass Production and External Inputs -- 7.18.1 Net Primary Productivity -- 7.18.2 External Inputs -- 7.19 The EROIs from an Economic Point of View -- 7.20 The EROIs from an Agroecological Point of View -- References -- 8 Social Metabolism at the Regional Scale -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Beyond P -- 8.3 The Regional Scale -- 8.4 Regions: The Study of the Metabolic Interlock -- 8.5 Bosawás: Metabolic Analysis of an Indigenous Region -- References -- 9 Social Metabolism at the National Scale -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Metabolic Profiles at the National Scale -- 9.3 The Material Bases of Economic Development in Spain (1860-2016) -- 9.4 Methodological Note -- 9.5 Material Extraction -- 9.6 The Physical Dimension of International Trade -- 9.7 Material Consumption Changes -- 9.8 Dematerialization or Rematerialization? -- 9.9 Determinants of Change -- 9.10 The Material Transition of the Spanish Economy -- 9.11 Conclusions and Future Research Agenda -- References -- 10 Global Metabolism -- 10.1 Introduction. ; 10.2 A Metabolic Crisis -- 10.3 Economic Growth and Material Consumption -- 10.4 Stocks (Funds)/Flows Nexus -- 10.5 The Key Role of International Trade -- 10.6 Ecologically Unequal Exchange and Material Flows -- 10.7 The Unviability of the Industrial Metabolism Regime -- 10.8 A Biophysical Reading of the Crisis -- References -- 11 The Cinegetic or Extractive Socio-Metabolic Regime -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 The Simplest Social Organization -- 11.3 The Productive Versatility of Cinegetic Societies -- 11.4 The Metabolism of Cinegetic Societies -- 11.5 The Intangible Dimensions of Cinegetic Metabolism -- References -- 12 Organic Metabolism -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 The Onset of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry -- 12.3 The Domestication of Landscapes -- 12.4 The Multiple Implications of the Neolithic Revolution -- 12.5 The Distinctive Features of the Organic Metabolic Regime -- 12.6 The Metabolic Appropriation Process -- 12.7 Mimicking Nature: The Replenishment of Soil Fertility -- 12.8 Environmental Constraints -- 12.9 Transformation and Distribution -- 12.10 Markets, Consumption, and Excretion -- 12.11 Organization and Functioning of Organic Metabolism -- 12.12 Common Features of Societarian Diversity -- 12.13 The Leading Role of the Peasantry -- 12.14 Unsustainability and Crisis of Organic Metabolism -- 12.15 The Agrarian Empires -- 12.16 The Collapse of Organic Metabolism Societies -- 12.17 The Environmental Conflicts of Organic Metabolism -- References -- 13 Industrial Metabolism -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 The Origins of Industrial Metabolism -- 13.3 The Energy Transition -- 13.4 A New Cognitive Framework for Processing Information: A Novel Cosmovision -- 13.5 Changes in the Metabolic Function of Biomass -- 13.6 The Four Pathways to Agricultural Industrialization -- 13.7 Industrialization First Comers and Late Joiners. ; 13.8 The Subterranean Forest Effect -- 13.9 The First Globalization -- 13.10 Centers and Periphery: Trade and Colonization -- 13.11 The Great Acceleration or the 50 s Syndrome -- 13.12 The Trade-Off Between Entropies -- 13.13 The Industrialization of Agriculture -- 13.14 Industrial Metabolism: A High Entropy Regime -- References -- 14 Metabolic Transitions: A Theory of Socio-ecological Transformation -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Societal Configurations -- 14.3 Human Webs: The Kinetics of Historical Change -- 14.4 A Metabolic Reading of the Past -- 14.5 Main Metabolic Transformations -- 14.6 The Modern World Crisis and Industrial Metabolism -- 14.7 Going Beyond the Cybernetic Approach -- 14.8 Metabolic Change: Metamorphosis and Transitions -- 14.9 The Main Drivers of Change -- 14.10 Mobilizing the Drivers: Information Flows -- 14.11 A Socio-metabolic Transition Case Study: The Industrialization of Spanish Agriculture -- References -- 15 Epilogue: Metabolisms, Entropy, and Sustainable Society -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 The Multiple Calls of Critical Thinkers -- 15.3 The Limited Capabilities of Contemporary Science -- 15.4 A Synthesis of Syntheses -- 15.5 The Reappearance of Nature -- 15.6 Human Beings Are Tangible, Society is Ethereal -- 15.7 The Social Phenomenon is not a Human Creation -- 15.8 And Neither is Politics… -- 15.9 Cooperation: The Evolutionary Basis of Altruism -- 15.10 Social Inequity as Entropy -- 15.11 Sustainable Societies and the Double Emancipation -- 15.12 The Final Challenge -- the Final Opportunity -- References.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Social Metabolism
• ISBN: 3-031-48411-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910831003503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Environmental History Series