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1 Online-Ressource (651 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9783319333267
Series Statement:
Human-Environment Interactions volume 5
Content:
Foreword I -- Foreword II -- Contents -- Authors and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Part I The Conceptual Repertoire -- 1 The Archipelago of Social Ecology and the Island of the Vienna School -- Abstract -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Academic Traditions Contributing to the Emergence of Social Ecology -- 1.3 Society's Biophysical Structures -- 1.3.1 Energy and Society -- 1.3.2 Land Use and Food Production -- 1.3.3 Social MetabolismEcological EconomicsIndustrial Ecology -- 1.4 Identifying Environmental Impacts of Human Activities
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1.5 Biohistory and Society-Nature Coevolution -- 1.6 Regulation, Governance and Sustainability Transitions -- 1.7 The Distinguishing Characteristics of the Vienna Social Ecology School -- References -- 2 Core Concepts and Heuristics -- Abstract -- 2.1 The Basic Socioecological Model Revisited -- 2.1.1 Why Talk About Culture? A Digression into Evolutionary Theory -- 2.1.2 Society as a Hybrid System -- 2.2 Social Metabolism: Heuristic Definitions and Assumptions -- 2.2.1 Sociometabolic Stocks and Flows and the Key Role of Population and Territory
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2.2.2 On the Relevance of Animal Livestock for Social Metabolism -- 2.2.3 Artifacts, Infrastructure and Material Flows 'from Cradle to Grave' -- 2.3 Colonizing Interventions in Natural Systems and Processes -- 2.3.1 System Theoretical Considerations -- 2.3.2 How Can the Concept of Colonizing Interventions Be Made Operational? -- 2.3.3 Which Intellectual Services Does the Colonization Concept Provide in Contrast to Other Conceptualizations? -- 2.4 Conclusions -- References -- 3 Transitions in Sociometabolic Regimes Throughout Human History -- Abstract -- 3.1 Sociometabolic Regimes and Transitions
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3.2 Foraging Societies and the Regime of Hunter-Gatherers -- 3.2.1 The Uncontrolled Solar Energy System of Foraging Societies -- 3.2.2 The Metabolic Profile of Hunter-Gatherers -- 3.2.3 Environmental Impacts and Sustainability -- 3.3 Agrarian Societies and the Agrarian Sociometabolic Regime -- 3.3.1 The Controlled Solar Energy System of the Agrarian Regime -- 3.3.2 Development Paths and Subtypes of the Agrarian Regime -- 3.3.2.1 Shifting Cultivation -- 3.3.2.2 Temperate Mixed Farming -- 3.3.2.3 Tropical Labor-Intensive Farming -- 3.3.2.4 Pastoralism -- 3.3.3 Material Use in the Agrarian Regime
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3.3.4 Sustainability and the Agrarian Metabolic Regime -- 3.4 The Industrial Sociometabolic Regime -- 3.4.1 The Energy System of Industrial Societies -- 3.4.2 The Emergence of the Industrial Regime in the 19th and 20th Centuries -- 3.4.3 The Metabolic Profiles of Industrial Societies -- 3.4.4 What Drives Material and Energy Use in the Industrial Regime? -- 3.4.5 Sustainability of the Industrial Regime -- 3.4.6 The Next Transition: The Metabolism of the 'Postindustrial' Society? -- References -- 4 Beyond Inputs and Outputs: Opening the Black-Box of Land-Use Intensity -- Abstract
Content:
4.1 Introduction
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Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783319333243
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Social ecology Switzerland : Springer, 2016 ISBN 9783319333243
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783319333267
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
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Geography
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Biology
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General works
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Sociology
Keywords:
Sozialökologie
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Electronic books
Author information:
Krausmann, Fridolin 1968-
Author information:
Haberl, Helmut 1965-
Author information:
Winiwarter, Verena 1961-
Author information:
Fischer-Kowalski, Marina 1946-
