Long Term Socio-Ecological Research : Studies in Society-Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales - Singh, Simron Jit.; Haberl, Helmut; Chertow, Marian; Mirtl, Michael; Schmid, Martin; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
Foreword 1 (Wolfgang Cramer and Steve Carpenter) -- Foreword 2 (Donald Worster) -- 1. Introduction. Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research: Scope and History -- PART I: LTSER Concepts, Methods and Linkages -- 2. Sociometabolic Transitions and the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production: What Promise Do They Hold For LTSER?- 3. Integrated Socio-Ecological Modeling: Experiences From European LTSER Platforms -- 4. Modeling Transport as a Key Constraint to Urbanization in Pre-Industrial Societies -- 5. The Environmental History of the Danube River Basin as an Issue of Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research -- 6. The Relevance of 'Critical Scales' For LTSER -- 7. Biohistory -- 8. Geographic Approaches to LTSER: Principal Themes And Concepts With a Case Study of Andes-Amazon Watersheds -- 9. The Contribution of Anthropology To Concepts Guiding LTSER Research -- PART II: LTSER Applications Across Ecosystems, Time and Space -- 10. Viewing the Urban Socio-Ecological System Through a Sustainability Lens: Lessons and Prospects From the Central Arizona-Phoenix LTER Program -- 11. A City and Its Hinterland: Vienna's Energy Metabolism 1800-2006 -- 12. Sustaining Agricultural Systems in the Old and New Worlds: A Long-Term Socio-Ecological Comparison -- 13. How Material and Energy Flows Change Human Practices and Environments: The Transformation of Agriculture in the Eisenwurzen Region, 1860-2000 -- 14. The Intimacy of Human-Nature Interactions on Islands -- 15. Global Socio-Metabolic Transitions -- PART III: LTSER Formations and the Transdisciplinary Challenge -- 16. Building an Urban LTSER: The Case of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study and the D.C. / B.C. ULTRA-Ex Project -- 17. Development of LTSER Platforms in LTER-Europe: Challenges and Experiences in Implementing Place-Based Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research in Selected Regions -- 18. Developing Socio-Ecological Research in Finland: Challenges and Progress Towards a Thriving LTSER Network -- 19. The Eisenwurzen LTSER Platform (Austria) - Implementation and Services -- 20. Fostering Research Into Coupled Long-Term Dynamics of Climate, Land Use, Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services in the Central French Alps -- 21. Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research in Mountain Regions: Perspectives From the Tyrolean Alps -- 22. Experiences From the Ötztal Valley in the Tyrolean High Alps: The Transdisciplinary Challenge -- 23. Conclusions -- Index.
Keywords: Sustainable development; Earth sciences; Human geography; Sustainable Development; Earth Sciences, general; Human Geography