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Sustainability or collapse? : an integrated history and future of people on earth /
Scholars from a range of disciplines develop an integrated human and environmental history over millennial, centennial, and decadal time scales and make projections for the future.Human history, as written traditionally, leaves out the important ecological and climate context of historical events. B...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press in cooperation with Dahlem University Press,
[2007]
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| Colección: | Dahlem workshop reports.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
- Section I Introduction 1 Sustainability or collapse: lessons from integrating the history of humans and the rest of nature / Robert Costanza, Lisa J. Graumlich and Will Steffen 2 Human-environment interactions: learning from the past / John A. Dearing 3 Assessing and communicating data quality: toward a system of data quality grading / Robert Costanza
- Section II The millennial timescale: up to 10,000 years ago 4 The rise and fall of the ancient Maya: a case study in political ecology / Vernon L. Scarborough 5 Climate, complexity, and problem solving in the Roman empire / Joseph A. Tainter and Carole L. Crumley 6 Integration of climatic, archaeological, and historical data: a case study of the Khabur River Basin, northeastern Syria / Frank Hole 7 The trajectory of human evolution in Australia: 10,000 B.P. to the present / Timothy F. Flannery 8 Toward a comparative study of hegemonic deline in global systems: the complexity of crisis and the paradoxes of differentiated experience / Jonathan Friedman 9 Group report: millennial perspectives on the dynamic interaction of climate, people, and resources / Charles L. Redman [and others]
- Section III The centennial timescale: up to 1000 years ago 10 Revolutionary weather: the climatic and economic crisis of 1788-1795 and the discovery of El Niño / Richard H. Grove 11 The lie of history: nation-states and the contradictions of complex societies / Fekri A. Hassan 12 Little ice age-type impacts and the mitigation of social vulnerability to climate in the Swiss Canton of Bern prior to 1800 / Christian Pfister 13 Information processing and its role in the rise of the European world system / Sander E. van der Leeuw 14 Group report: integrating socioenvironmental interactions over centennial timescales
- needs and issues / John A. Dearing [and others]
- Section VI The decadal timescale: up to 100 years ago 15 A decadal chronology of 20th-century changes in earth's natural systems / Nathan J. Mantua 16 Social, economic, and political forces in environmental change: decadal scale (1900 to 2000) / John R. McNeill 17 Integrated human-environment approaches of land degradation in drylands / Eric F. Lambin [and others] 18 Group report: decadal-scale interactions of humans and the environment / Kathy A. Hibbard [and others]
- Section V The future 19 Scenarios: guidance for an uncertain and complex world? / Bert J.M. de Vries 20 Evaluating past forecasts: reflections on one critique of the limits to growth / Dennis L. Meadows 21 Integrated global models / Robert Costanza [and others] 22 Group report: future scenarios of human-environment systems / Marianne N. Young.