Long Term Socio-Ecological Research Studies in Society-Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Singh, Simron Jit (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Haberl, Helmut (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Chertow, Marian (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Mirtl, Michael (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Schmid, Martin (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: Human-Environment Interactions ; 2
• Θέματα: Environment.; Earth sciences.; Sustainable development.; Human geography.; Sustainable Development.; Earth Sciences, general.; Human Geography.

The authors in this volume make a case for LTSER’s potential in providing insights, knowledge and experience necessary for a sustainability transition. This expertly edited selection of contributions from Europe and North America reviews the development of LTSER since its inception and assesses its...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Foreword 1 (Wolfgang Cramer and Steve Carpenter)
• Foreword 2 (Donald Worster)
• 1. Introduction. Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research: Scope and History
• PART I: LTSER Concepts, Methods and Linkages
• 2. Sociometabolic Transitions and the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production: What Promise Do They Hold For LTSER?- 3. Integrated Socio-Ecological Modeling: Experiences From European LTSER Platforms
• 4. Modeling Transport as a Key Constraint to Urbanization in Pre-Industrial Societies
• 5. The Environmental History of the Danube River Basin as an Issue of Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research
• 6. The Relevance of ‘Critical Scales’ For LTSER
• 7. Biohistory
• 8. Geographic Approaches to LTSER: Principal Themes And Concepts With a Case Study of Andes-Amazon Watersheds
• 9. The Contribution of Anthropology To Concepts Guiding LTSER Research
• PART II: LTSER Applications Across Ecosystems, Time and Space
• 10. Viewing the Urban Socio-Ecological System Through a Sustainability Lens: Lessons and Prospects From the Central Arizona-Phoenix LTER Program
• 11. A City and Its Hinterland: Vienna’s Energy Metabolism 1800-2006
• 12. Sustaining Agricultural Systems in the Old and New Worlds: A Long-Term Socio-Ecological Comparison
• 13. How Material and Energy Flows Change Human Practices and Environments: The Transformation of Agriculture in the Eisenwurzen Region, 1860-2000
• 14. The Intimacy of Human-Nature Interactions on Islands
• 15. Global Socio-Metabolic Transitions
• PART III: LTSER Formations and the Transdisciplinary Challenge
• 16. Building an Urban LTSER: The Case of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study and the D.C. / B.C. ULTRA-Ex Project
• 17. Development of LTSER Platforms in LTER-Europe: Challenges and Experiences in Implementing Place-Based Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research in Selected Regions
• 18. Developing Socio-Ecological Research in Finland: Challenges and Progress Towards a Thriving LTSER Network
• 19. The Eisenwurzen LTSER Platform (Austria) - Implementation and Services
• 20. Fostering Research Into Coupled Long-Term Dynamics of Climate, Land Use, Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services in the Central French Alps
• 21. Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research in Mountain Regions: Perspectives From the Tyrolean Alps
• 22. Experiences From the Ötztal Valley in the Tyrolean High Alps: The Transdisciplinary Challenge
• 23. Conclusions
• Index.