Social Ecology

“Highly recommendable for environmental historians. … An innovative feature of the book are the so-called Method Precis lessons. These insertions provide in-depth studies of several empirical approaches and explain the applied methods in a comprehensive manner, making a twofold contribution.” (Reinhard Ferdinand Nießner, Austrian Environmental History, Vol. 27, May, 2019)“This volume on social ecology is the latest impressive outcome of almost three decades of interdisciplinary research. … lt is highly recommendable for both students and researchers in this interdisciplinary field. Tue School's core concepts, like the colonization of nature or social metabolism, are thought-provoking for environmental history.” (Reinhard Ferdinand Nießner, Contemporary Austrian Studies, Vol. 27, 2018)​

• Chapter 1 - The Archipelago of Social Ecology and the Island of the Vienna School.- Chapter 2 - Core Concepts and Heuristics.- Chapter 3 - Transitions in Sociometabolic Regimes Throughout Human History.- Chapter 4 - Beyond Inputs and Outputs: Opening the Black-Box of Land-Use Intensity.- Chapter 5 - ‘Society Can’t Move so Much as a Chair!’ - Systems, Structures and Actors in Social Ecology.- Chapter 6 - Why Legacies Matter: Merits of a Long-Term Perspective.- Chapter 7 - Toward a Socioecological Concept of Human Labor.- Chapter 8 - Long-Term Trends in Global Material and Energy Use.- Chapter 9 - More than the Sum of its Parts: Patterns in Global Material Flows.- Chapter 10 - Boundary Issues: Calculating National Material Use for a Globalized World.- Chapter 11 - How Circular is the Global Economy? A Sociometabolic Analysis.- Chapter 12 - Material Stocks and Sustainable Development.