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Author:   Helmut Haberl ,  Marina Fischer-Kowalski ,  Fridolin Krausmann ,  Verena Winiwarter
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Volume:   5
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.474kg
ISBN:  

9783319333243

ISBN 10:   3319333240
Pages:   610
Publication Date:   15 July 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

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.

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Highly recommendable for environmental historians. ... An innovative feature of the book are the so-called Method Precis lessons. These insertions provide in-depth studies of several empirical approaches and explain the applied methods in a comprehensive manner, making a twofold contribution. (Reinhard Ferdinand Niessner, Austrian Environmental History, Vol. 27, May, 2019) This volume on social ecology is the latest impressive outcome of almost three decades of interdisciplinary research. ... lt is highly recommendable for both students and researchers in this interdisciplinary field. Tue School's core concepts, like the colonization of nature or social metabolism, are thought-provoking for environmental history. (Reinhard Ferdinand Niessner, Contemporary Austrian Studies, Vol. 27, 2018)

This volume on social ecology is the latest impressive outcome of almost three decades of interdisciplinary research. ... lt is highly recommendable for both students and researchers in this interdisciplinary field. Tue School's core concepts, like the colonization of nature or social metabolism, are thought-provoking for environmental history. (Reinhard Ferdinand Niessner, Contemporary Austrian Studies, Vol. 27, 2018)

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