ISBN:
184720340X
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9781847203403
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 263 p)
,
ill
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Advances in ecological economics
Parallel Title:
Print version Socioecological Transitions and Global Change : Trajectories of Social Metabolism and Land Use
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Globalization Economic aspects
;
System theory
;
Social change
;
Social evolution
;
Globalization Environmental aspects
;
Social ecology
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
This significant new book analyses fundamental changes in society-nature interaction: the socioeconomic use of materials, energy and land. The volume presents a number of case studies addressing transitions from an agrarian to an industrial socioecological regime, analysed within the materials and energy flow accounting (MEFA) framework. It is argued that by concentrating on the biophysical dimensions of change in the course of industrialization, social development issues can be explicitly linked to changes in the natural environment. From the historical transition in Europe, to current transi
Description / Table of Contents:
COPYRIGHT; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Foreword; 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
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Transition in a contemporary context: patterns of development in a globalizing world8. Conclusions: likely and unlikely pasts, possible and impossible futures; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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