Long Term Socio-Ecological Research Studies in Society-Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales /
The authors in this volume make a case for LTSER's potential in providing insights, knowledge and experience necessary for a sustainability transition. This expertly edited selection of contributions from Europe and North America reviews the development of LTSER since its inception and assesses...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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Edición: | 1st ed. 2013. |
Colección: | Human-Environment Interactions,
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword 1 (Wolfgang Cramer and Steve Carpenter)
- Foreword 2 (Donald Worster)
- 1. Introduction. Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research: Scope and History
- PART I: LTSER Concepts, Methods and Linkages
- 2. Sociometabolic Transitions and the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production: What Promise Do They Hold For LTSER?- 3. Integrated Socio-Ecological Modeling: Experiences From European LTSER Platforms
- 4. Modeling Transport as a Key Constraint to Urbanization in Pre-Industrial Societies
- 5. The Environmental History of the Danube River Basin as an Issue of Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research
- 6. The Relevance of 'Critical Scales' For LTSER
- 7. Biohistory
- 8. Geographic Approaches to LTSER: Principal Themes And Concepts With a Case Study of Andes-Amazon Watersheds
- 9. The Contribution of Anthropology To Concepts Guiding LTSER Research
- PART II: LTSER Applications Across Ecosystems, Time and Space
- 10. Viewing the Urban Socio-Ecological System Through a Sustainability Lens: Lessons and Prospects From the Central Arizona-Phoenix LTER Program
- 11. A City and Its Hinterland: Vienna's Energy Metabolism 1800-2006
- 12. Sustaining Agricultural Systems in the Old and New Worlds: A Long-Term Socio-Ecological Comparison
- 13. How Material and Energy Flows Change Human Practices and Environments: The Transformation of Agriculture in the Eisenwurzen Region, 1860-2000
- 14. The Intimacy of Human-Nature Interactions on Islands
- 15. Global Socio-Metabolic Transitions
- PART III: LTSER Formations and the Transdisciplinary Challenge
- 16. Building an Urban LTSER: The Case of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study and the D.C. / B.C. ULTRA-Ex Project
- 17. Development of LTSER Platforms in LTER-Europe: Challenges and Experiences in Implementing Place-Based Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research in Selected Regions
- 18. Developing Socio-Ecological Research in Finland: Challenges and Progress Towards a Thriving LTSER Network
- 19. The Eisenwurzen LTSER Platform (Austria) - Implementation and Services
- 20. Fostering Research Into Coupled Long-Term Dynamics of Climate, Land Use, Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services in the Central French Alps
- 21. Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research in Mountain Regions: Perspectives From the Tyrolean Alps
- 22. Experiences From the Ötztal Valley in the Tyrolean High Alps: The Transdisciplinary Challenge
- 23. Conclusions
- Index.