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Title

Socioecological transitions and global change : trajectories of social metabolism and land use / edited by Marina Fischer-Kowalski and Helmut Haberl.

Publication

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

• Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, 1946-
• Haberl, Helmut.

Description

xiv, 263 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Advances in ecological economics

Uniform Title

Advances in ecological economics.

Subject

• Social ecology
• Social evolution
• Social change
• System theory
• Globalization > Economic aspects
• Globalization > Environmental aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Conceptualizing, observing and comparing socioecological transitions / Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Helmut Haberl -- Land-use change and socioeconomic metabolism : a macro view of Austria 1830-2000 / Fridolin Krausmann, Helmut Haberl -- The fossil fuel-powered carbon sink : carbon flows and Austria's energetic metabolism in a long-term perspective / Karl-Heinz Erb, Helmut Haberl, Fridolin Krausmann -- The great transformation : a socio-metabolic reading of the industrialization of the United Kingdom / Heinz Schandl, Fridolin Krausmann -- The local base of the historical agrarian : industrial transition and the interaction between scales / Helmut Haberl, Fridolin Krausmann -- The local base of transitions in developing countries / Clemens M. Grünbühel, Simron J. Singh, Marina Fischer-Kowalski -- Transition in a contemporary context : patterns of development in a globalizing world / Nina Eisenmenger, Jesus Ramos Martin, Heinz Schandl -- Conclusions : likely and unlikely pasts, possible and impossible futures / Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Helmut Haberl, Fridolin Krausmann.

ISBN

• 184720340X (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781847203403 (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007000703

OCLC

• OCM78788521
• 78788521
• SCSB-5356399

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries