The Social Metabolism : A Socio-Ecological Theory of Historical Change - González de Molina, Manuel; Toledo, Víctor M.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014)
Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Environmental history as sustainability science -- 3. Social metabolism: origins, history, approaches and main publications -- 4. The basic model -- 5. Social metabolism at the local scale -- 6. Social metabolism at the regional scale -- 7. Social metabolism at the national and global scales -- 8. Global metabolism -- 9. The cinegetic or extractive mode of social metabolism -- 10. The organic metabolism -- 11. The industrial metabolism -- 12. A non-cybernetic theory of social metabolism -- 13. Metabolic transitions: a theory of socioecological transformation -- 14. Epilogue: metabolisms, entropy and sustainable society.
Keywords: History; Environment; Sustainable development; Environmental economics; Anthropology; Sociology; History, general; Environment, general; Sustainable Development; Environmental Economics; Anthropology; Sociological Theory