Title: Natural Resource Use and Global Change
Description: "Building on recent developments in social ecology, this book advances a new critical theory of society and nature, exploring social metabolism and global resource flows in contemporary society. Charting the historical development of social ecology in the context of environmental research, the book examines the interactions between society and nature and identifies both the barriers to global sustainability and the conditions and best practice for transforming industrial economies towards new sustainable resource use"--
Subjects: Natural resources, Human ecology, Sustainable development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Management, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Social ecology, SCIENCE / Environmental Science, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology