Main Title |
The world system and the Earth system : global socioenvironmental change and sustainability since the Neolithic / |
Other Authors |
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Publisher |
Left Coast Press, Inc., |
Year Published |
2007 |
OCLC Number |
70232275 |
ISBN |
1598741004 (alk. paper); 9781598741001 (alk. paper); 1598741012 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9781598741018 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Subjects |
Ecology ;
Climatic changes ;
Environmental sciences ;
Human ecology ;
Social ecology
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
ELBM |
QH541.W57 2007 |
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AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH |
01/04/2010 |
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Collation |
xii, 395 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-379) and index. |
Contents Notes |
Introduction: conceptualizing socioecological systems -- Modeling socioecological systems : general perspectives -- Historical ecology : integrated thinking at multiple temporal and spatial scales -- Toward developing synergistic linkages between the biophysical and the cultural : a palaeoenvironmental perspective -- Integration of world and earth systems : heritage and foresight -- World-systems as complex human ecosystems -- Lessons from population ecology for world-systems analyses of long-distance synchrony -- Sustainable unsustainability : toward a comparative study of hegemonic decline in global systems -- Case studies of socioenvironmental change in prehistory -- Agrarian landscape development in Northwestern Europe since the Neolithic : cultural and climatic factors behind a regional/continental pattern -- Climate change in Southern and Eastern Africa during the past millennium and its implications for societal development -- World-systems in the biogeosphere : urbanization, state formation, and climate change since the Iron Age -- Eurasian transformations : mobility, ecological change, and the transmission of social institutions in the third millennium and the early second millennium B.C.E. -- Climate, water, and political-economic crises in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt -- Ages of reorganization -- Sustainable intensive exploitation of Amazonia : cultural, environmental, and geopolitical perspectives -- Regional integration and ecology in prehistoric Amazonia : toward a system perspective -- Is the world system sustainable? attempts toward an integrated socioecological perspective -- The human-environment nexus : progress in the past decade in the integrated analysis of human and biophysical factors -- In search of sustainability : what can we learn from the past? -- Political ecology and sustainability science : opportunity and challenge -- No island is an "island" : some perspectives on human ecology and development in Oceania -- Infectious diseases as ecological and historical phenomena, with special reference to the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 -- Evidence from societal metabolism studies for ecological unequal trade -- Entropy generation and displacement : the nineteenth-century multilateral network of world trade. |
Place Published |
Walnut Creek, CA |
PUB Date Free Form |
c2007 |
BIB Level |
m |
Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
LCCN |
2006020200 |
Merged OCLC records |
84654736; 156760369 |
OCLC Time Stamp |
20091228132254 |
Language |
eng |
Origin |
OCLC |
Type |
CAT |
OCLC Rec Leader |
04009cam 22004814a 45020 |