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The world system and the Earth system : global socioenvironmental change and sustainability since the Neolithic /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hornborg, Alf, Crumley, Carole L.
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, Inc., c2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: conceptualizing socioecological systems
  • Modeling socioecological systems : general perspectives
  • Historical ecology : integrated thinking at multiple temporal and spatial scales
  • Toward developing synergistic linkages between the biophysical and the cultural : a palaeoenvironmental perspective
  • Integration of world and earth systems : heritage and foresight
  • World-systems as complex human ecosystems
  • Lessons from population ecology for world-systems analyses of long-distance synchrony
  • Sustainable unsustainability : toward a comparative study of hegemonic decline in global systems
  • Case studies of socioenvironmental change in prehistory
  • Agrarian landscape development in Northwestern Europe since the Neolithic : cultural and climatic factors behind a regional/continental pattern
  • Climate change in Southern and Eastern Africa during the past millennium and its implications for societal development
  • World-systems in the biogeosphere : urbanization, state formation, and climate change since the Iron Age
  • Eurasian transformations : mobility, ecological change, and the transmission of social institutions in the third millennium and the early second millennium B.C.E.
  • Climate, water, and political-economic crises in ancient
  • Mesopotamia and Egypt
  • Ages of reorganization
  • Sustainable intensive exploitation of Amazonia : cultural, environmental, and geopolitical perspectives
  • Regional integration and ecology in prehistoric Amazonia : toward a system perspective
  • Is the world system sustainable? attempts toward an integrated socioecological perspective
  • The human-environment nexus : progress in the past decade in the integrated analysis of human and biophysical factors
  • In search of sustainability : what can we learn from the past?
  • Political ecology and sustainability science : opportunity and challenge
  • No island is an "island" : some perspectives on human ecology and development in Oceania
  • Infectious diseases as ecological and historical phenomena, with special reference to the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919
  • Evidence from societal metabolism studies for ecological unequal trade
  • Entropy generation and displacement : the nineteenth-century multilateral network of world trade.