Foreword
Note to the Second Edition
1. Introduction
2. Environmental history as sustainability science
3. Social metabolism: origins, history, approaches and main publications
4. A non-cybernetic theory of social metabolism
5. The basic model
6. Social metabolism at the local scale
7. Social metabolism at the regional scale
8. Social metabolism at the national scale
9. Global metabolism
10. The cinegetic or extractive mode of social metabolism
11. The organic metabolism
12. The industrial metabolism
13. Metabolic transitions: a theory of socioecological transformation
14. Epilogue: metabolisms, entropy and sustainable society
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