Socioecological transitions and global change
Subtitle: trajectories of social metabolism and land use
By: edited by Marina Fischer-Kowalski and Helmut Haberl.
Contributors: Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, 1946-; Haberl, Helmut.
Series: Advances in ecological economics series
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Northampton, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781847203403
Subjects: Social ecology; Social evolution; Social change; System theory; Globalization -- Economic aspects; Globalization -- Environmental aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Conceptualizing, observing and comparing socioecological transitions / Marina Fischer-Kowalski and Helmut Haberl; title: Land-use change and socioeconomic metabolism : a macro view of Austria 1830-2000 / Fridolin Krausmann, Helmut Haberl; title: 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; title: The great transformation : a socio-metabolic reading of the industrialization of the United Kingdom / Heinz Schandl and Fridolin Krausmann; title: Land-use change and socioeconomic metabolism : scale linkages between local and national levels : the case of Austria 1830-2000 / Helmut Haberl, Fridolin Krausmann; title: Contemporary transitions in rural communities of developing countries / Clemens M. Grünbühel, Simron J. Singh, Marina Fischer-Kowalski; title: Transition in a modern context : patterns of development in a globalizing world / Nina Eisenmenger, Jesus Ramos Martin, Heinz Schandl; title: Conclusions: likely and unlikely pasts, possible and impossible futures / Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Helmut Haberl, Fridolin Krausmann.