ISBN:
9783319063584
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (368 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Environmental History Ser. v.3
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Social ecology..
;
Environmental economics
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Over this last decade, the concept of Social Metabolism has gained prestige as a theoretical instrument for the required analysis, to such an extent that there are now dozens of researchers, hundreds of articles and several books that have adopted and use this concept. However, there is a great deal of variety in terms of definitions and interpretations, as well as different methodologies around this concept, which prevents the consolidation of a unified field of new knowledge. The fundamental aim of the book is to conduct a review of the past and present usage of the concept of social metabolism, its origins and history, as well as the main currents or schools that exist around this concept. At the same time, the reviews and discussions included are used by the authors as starting points to draw conclusions and propose a theory of socio-ecological transformations.The theoretical and methodological innovations of this book include a distinction of two types of metabolic processes: tangible and intangible; the analysis of the social metabolism at different scales (in space and time) and a theory of socio-ecological change overcoming the merely "systemic" or "cybernetic" nature of conventional approaches, giving special protagonism to collective acti.
Abstract:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1…Worrying About the Future -- 1.2…Exploring the Past -- 1.3…The book Contents -- References -- 2 Environmental History as Sustainability Science -- 2.1…History and the Crisis of Modern Civilization -- 2.2…Environmental History, a Hybrid Discipline -- 2.3…Sustainability Science -- 2.4…What is Environmental History, and What Are Its Goals -- 2.5…Is Environmental History Anachronic or Ephemeral? -- 2.6…The Theoretical Foundations of Environmental History -- 2.7…Environmental Historyand the Coevolution Between Nature and Society -- 2.8…Sustainability, the New Meaning of History -- 2.9…Epistemological Foundations of Environmental History -- 2.10…History as a Post-normal Science -- 2.11…Environmental History and the Ecological Paradigm -- 2.12…Entropy and Environmental History -- 2.13…The New Axiology -- 2.14…A New Social Function for History: The Species Memory -- References -- 3 Social Metabolism: Origins, History, Approaches, and Main Publications -- 3.1…Introduction -- 3.2…A Starring Concept -- 3.3…The Origins -- 3.4…Darwin and Marx in London -- 3.5…The Key Writings of Alfred Schmidt -- 3.6…Marx and Energy Flows -- 3.7…The Rediscovery of the Concept of Social Metabolism -- 3.8…A Bibliometric Analysis -- 3.9…Industrial Metabolism -- 3.10…Urban Metabolism -- 3.11…Agrarian or Rural Metabolism -- 3.12…Regional Metabolism -- 3.13…National Metabolism -- 3.14…Two Problems to be Solved -- References -- 4 The Basic Model -- 4.1…Introduction -- 4.2…The Five Metabolic Processes -- 4.3…Metabolic Processes: Funds and Flows -- 4.4…Metabolic Flows: Energy, Emergy, and Exergy -- 4.5…The Tangible and the Intangible -- 4.6…The Structure of Nature: Ecosystems and Landscapes -- 4.7…The Three Basic Forms of Appropriation -- 4.8…Nature in Space: The Three Mega-Environments.
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