The world system and the Earth system : global socioenvironmental change and sustainability since the Neolithic / Alf Hornborg & Carole L. Crumley, eds.
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| Language: | English |
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Walnut Creek, CA :
Left Coast Press, Inc.,
[2007], ©2007.
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| Physical Description: | xii, 395 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction: conceptualizing socioecological systems
- Modeling socioecological systems : general perspectives
- Historical ecology : integrated thinking at multiple temporal and spatial scales
- Toward developing synergistic linkages between the biophysical and the cultural : a palaeoenvironmental perspective
- Integration of world and earth systems : heritage and foresight
- World-systems as complex human ecosystems
- Lessons from population ecology for world-systems analyses of long-distance synchrony
- Sustainable unsustainability : toward a comparative study of hegemonic decline in global systems
- Case studies of socioenvironmental change in prehistory
- Agrarian landscape development in Northwestern Europe since the Neolithic : cultural and climatic factors behind a regional/continental pattern
- Climate change in Southern and Eastern Africa during the past millennium and its implications for societal development
- World-systems in the biogeosphere : urbanization, state formation, and climate change since the Iron Age
- Eurasian transformations : mobility, ecological change, and the transmission of social institutions in the third millennium and the early second millennium B.C.E.
- Climate, water, and political-economic crises in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt
- Ages of reorganization
- Sustainable intensive exploitation of Amazonia : cultural, environmental, and geopolitical perspectives
- Regional integration and ecology in prehistoric Amazonia : toward a system perspective
- Is the world system sustainable? attempts toward an integrated socioecological perspective
- The human-environment nexus : progress in the past decade in the integrated analysis of human and biophysical factors
- In search of sustainability : what can we learn from the past?
- Political ecology and sustainability science : opportunity and challenge
- No island is an "island" : some perspectives on human ecology and development in Oceania
- Infectious diseases as ecological and historical phenomena, with special reference to the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919
- Evidence from societal metabolism studies for ecological unequal trade
- Entropy generation and displacement : the nineteenth-century multilateral network of world trade.