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Socioecological Transitions And Global Change |
Edited by Marina Fischer-Kowalski and Helmut Haberl, Institute of Social Ecology, Klagenfurt University, Vienna, Austria
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‘This book is a neat summary of the main research developments achieved by the editors and their colleagues at the Institute of Social Ecology at Klagenfurt University in Vienna, and represents an interesting and important landmark in the social metabolism approach to sustainable development. The book is arranged over eight chapters, each of which can stand alone as an interesting paper with a specific focus, though several chapters are complimentary. . . The various chapters are largely written in an interesting and engaging style and the material covered is well presented, so that the largely social science content should be easily assimilated by a wide general readership. . . The book is well laid out. . . Any ecologists interested in flows of energy and materials within changing agrarian and industrial landscapes would be well served by reading this approachable text.’
– Robert A. Francis, Landscape Ecology
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Contents: Foreword by Joan Martinez-Alier 1. Conceptualizing, Observing and Comparing Socioecological Transitions 2. Land-use Change and Socioeconomic Metabolism: A Macro View of Austria 1830–2000 3. The Fossil-Fuel-Powered Carbon Sink: Carbon Flows and Austria’s Energetic Metabolism in a Long-term Perspective 4. The Great Transformation: A Socio-metabolic Reading of the Industrialization of the United Kingdom 5. The Local Base of the Historical Agrarian – Industrial Transition and the Interaction between Scales 6. The Local Base of Transitions in Developing Countries 7. Transition in a Contemporary Context: Patterns of Development in a Globalizing World 8. Conclusions: Likely and Unlikely Pasts, Possible and Impossible Futures Index
Contributors: N. Eisenmenger, K.-H. Erb, M. Fischer-Kowalski, C.M. Grünbühel, H. Haberl, F. Krausmann, J. Ramos Martin, H. Schandl, S.J. Singh
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