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

Long Term Socio-Ecological Research Studies in Society-Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales / edited by Simron Jit Singh, Helmut Haberl, Marian Chertow, Michael Mirtl, Martin Schmid.

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...

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Other Authors: Singh, Simron Jit (Editor), Haberl, Helmut (Editor), Chertow, Marian (Editor), Mirtl, Michael (Editor), Schmid, Martin (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Series:Human-Environment Interactions, 2
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Sustainable development.
Earth sciences.
Human geography.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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