The Social Metabolism : A Socio-Ecological Theory of Historical Change /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014. |
| Series: | Environmental History,
3 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.