Socioecological Transitions and Global Change

Trajectories of Social Metabolism and Land Use

AvMarina Fischer-Kowalski,Helmut Haberl

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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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 transitions in developing countries, the book offers a broad and comprehensive analysis of transition processes across scales, from local to national. The comparison of historical and current assessments allows a theory of the underlying patterns of the agrarian-industrial transition to emerge. On this basis, future trends and possible pathways towards (or indeed further departures from) sustainability are discussed.Empirical in character and cautious in its assumptions, this insightful book provides rich and in-depth material for further studies in socioecological research. It will be essential reading for students and researchers of ecological economics, industrial ecology, human ecology, environmental sociology, environmental history, geography as well as land, energy and development studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-05-25
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Advances in Ecological Economics series
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781847203403

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Edited by Marina Fischer-Kowalski, University for Natural Resources and Life Sciences and Helmut Haberl, Institute of Social Ecology, BOKU University, Austria

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'Unlike so many books that analyze material and energy flows in society and the developments therein, this is one of the few that link such information to developments in social organization and that discusses how limits in one sphere influence the other and in reverse.'

Innehållsförteckning

Contents:ForewordJoan Martinez-Alier1. Conceptualizing, Observing and Comparing Socioecological TransitionsMarina Fischer-Kowalski and Helmut Haberl2. Land-use Change and Socioeconomic Metabolism: A Macro View of Austria 1830–2000Fridolin Krausmann and Helmut Haberl3. The Fossil-Fuel-Powered Carbon Sink: Carbon Flows and Austria’s Energetic Metabolism in a Long-term PerspectiveKarl-Heinz Erb, Helmut Haberl and Fridolin Krausmann4. The Great Transformation: A Socio-metabolic Reading of the Industrialization of the United KingdomHeinz Schandl and Fridolin Krausmann 5. The Local Base of the Historical Agrarian – Industrial Transition and the Interaction between ScalesHelmut Haberl and Fridolin Krausmann6. The Local Base of Transitions in Developing CountriesClemens M. Grünbühel, Simron J. Singh and Marina Fischer-Kowalski7. Transition in a Contemporary Context: Patterns of Development in a Globalizing WorldNina Eisenmenger, Jesus Ramos Martin and Heinz Schandl8. Conclusions: Likely and Unlikely Pasts, Possible and Impossible FuturesMarina Fischer-Kowalski, Helmut Haberl and Fridolin KrausmannIndex