The Social Metabolism A Socio-Ecological Theory of Historical Change /

• Main Authors: González de Molina, Manuel (Author), Toledo, Víctor M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Environmental History, 3
• Subjects: History.; Environment.; Sustainable development.; Environmental economics.; Anthropology.; Sociology.; History, general.; Environment, general.; Sustainable Development.; Environmental Economics.; Sociological Theory.

Today, the most notable feature of the modern world is the growing concern for the future, since human society is immersed in a “giant, uncontrolled experiment” (McNeill, 2000), which it has caused, where natural and social processes are connected in an unprecedented way, generating new unpredictabl...

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.