Inhaltliche Zusammenfassung: | In this benchmark volume top scholars come together to present state-of-the-art research and pursue a more rigorous framework for understanding and studying the linkages between social and ecological systems. Contributors from a wide spectrum of disciplines, including archaeology, anthropology, geography, ecology, palaeo-science, geology, sociology, and history, present and assess both the evolution of our thinking and current, state-of-the-art theory and research. Covering ancient through modern periods, they discuss the complex ways in which human culture, economy, and demographics interact with ecology and climate change. The World System and the Earth System is critical reading for all scholars and students working at the interface of nature and society.Contributors: Thomas Abel, Björn Berglund, Chris Chase-Dunn, Alfred Crosby, Carole L. Crumley, John Dearing, Bert de Vries, Nina Eisenmenger, Andre Gunder Frank, Jonathan Friedman, Stefan Giljum, Thomas Hall, Karin Holmgren, Alf Hornborg, Kristian Kristiansen, Thomas Malm, Daniel Mandell, Betty Meggers, George Modelski, Emilio Moran, Helena Öberg, Frank Oldfield, Susan Stonich, William Thompson, Peter Turchin.
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction: Conceptualizing Socioecological Systems -- Part I Modeling Socioecological Systems: General Perspectives -- 1 Historical Ecology: Integrated Thinking at Multiple Temporaland Spatial Scales -- 2 Toward Developing Synergistic Linkages betweenthe Biophysical and the Cultural: A PalaoenvironmentalPerspective -- 3 Integration of World and Earth Systems:Heritage and Foresight -- 4 World-Systems as Complex Human Ecosystems -- 5 Lessons from Population Ecology for World-SystemsAnalyses of Long-Distance Synchrony -- 6 Sustainable Unsustainability: Toward a Comparative Study of Hegemonic Decline in Global Systems -- Part II Case Studies of Socioenvironmental Change in Prehistory -- 7 Agrarian Landscape Development in Northwestern Europesince the Neolithic: Cultural and Climatic Factors behind a Regional/Continental Pattern -- 8 Climate Change in Southern and Eastern Africa during the Past Millennium and Its Implicationsfor Societal Development -- 9 World-Systems in the Biogeosphere: Urbanization, State Formation, and Climate Change Since the Iron Age -- 10 E urasian Transformations: Mobility, Ecological Change, and the Transmission of Social Institutions in the Third Millennium and the Early Second Millennium b.c.e. -- 11 Climate, Water, and Political-Economic Crises inAncient Mesopotamia and Egypt -- 12 Ages of Reorganization -- 13 Sustainable Intensive Exploitation of Amazonia:Cultural, Environmental, and Geopolitical Perspectives -- 14 Regional Integration and Ecology in Prehistoric Amazonia:Toward a System Perspective -- Part III Is the World System Sustainable? Attempts toward anIntegrated Socioecological Perspective -- 15 The Human-Environment Nexus: Progress in the Past Decade in the Integrated Analysis of Human and Biophysical Factors. |
