Contributors from a wide spectrum of disciplines, including archaeology, anthropology, geography, ecology, palaeo-science, geology, sociology, and history discuss the complex ways in which human culture, economy, and demographics interact with ecology and climate change.
Contributors from a wide spectrum of disciplines, including archaeology, anthropology, geography, ecology, palaeo-science, geology, sociology, and history discuss the complex ways in which human culture, economy, and demographics interact with ecology and climate change.
Preface Contributors Introduction: Conceptualizing Socioecological Systems Part I: Modeling Socioecological Systems: General Perspectives 1. Historical Ecology: Integrated Thinking at Multiple Temporal and Spatial Scales 2. Toward Developing Synergistic Linkages between the Biophysical and the Cultural: A Palaoenvironmental Perspective 3. Integration of World and Earth Systems: Heritage and Foresight 4. World-Systems as Complex Human Ecosystems 5. Lessons from Population Ecology for World-Systems Analyses 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 Europe since 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 Implications for Societal Development 9. World-Systems in the Biogeosphere: Urbanization State Formation and Climate Change Since the Iron Age 10. Eurasian 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 in Ancient 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 an Integrated Socioecological Perspective 15. The Human-Environment Nexus: Progress in the Past Decade in the Integrated Analysis of Human and Biophysical Factors 16. In Search of Sustainability: What Can We Learn from the Past? 17. Political Ecology and Sustainability Science: Opportunity and Challenge 18. No Island is an "Island": Some Perspectives on Human Ecology and Development in Oceania 19. Infectious Diseases as Ecological and Historical Phenomena with Special Reference to the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 20. Evidence from Societal Metabolism Studies for Ecological Unequal Trade 21. Entropy Generation and Displacement: The Nineteenth-Century Multilateral Network of World Trade References Index
Preface Contributors Introduction: Conceptualizing Socioecological Systems Part I: Modeling Socioecological Systems: General Perspectives 1. Historical Ecology: Integrated Thinking at Multiple Temporal and Spatial Scales 2. Toward Developing Synergistic Linkages between the Biophysical and the Cultural: A Palaoenvironmental Perspective 3. Integration of World and Earth Systems: Heritage and Foresight 4. World-Systems as Complex Human Ecosystems 5. Lessons from Population Ecology for World-Systems Analyses 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 Europe since 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 Implications for Societal Development 9. World-Systems in the Biogeosphere: Urbanization State Formation and Climate Change Since the Iron Age 10. Eurasian 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 in Ancient 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 an Integrated Socioecological Perspective 15. The Human-Environment Nexus: Progress in the Past Decade in the Integrated Analysis of Human and Biophysical Factors 16. In Search of Sustainability: What Can We Learn from the Past? 17. Political Ecology and Sustainability Science: Opportunity and Challenge 18. No Island is an "Island": Some Perspectives on Human Ecology and Development in Oceania 19. Infectious Diseases as Ecological and Historical Phenomena with Special Reference to the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 20. Evidence from Societal Metabolism Studies for Ecological Unequal Trade 21. Entropy Generation and Displacement: The Nineteenth-Century Multilateral Network of World Trade References Index
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