Socioecological transitions and global change : trajectories of social metabolism and land use / edited by Marina Fischer-Kowalski and Helmut Haberl. - Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2007. - xiv, 263 pages illustrations 24 cm. - Advances in ecological economics .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Conceptualizing, observing and comparing socioecological transitions / Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Helmut Haberl -- Land-use change and socioeconomic metabolism : a macro view of Austria 1830-2000 / Fridolin Krausmann, Helmut Haberl -- The fossil fuel-powered carbon sink : carbon flows and Austria's energetic metabolism in a long-term perspective / Karl-Heinz Erb, Helmut Haberl, Fridolin Krausmann -- The great transformation : a socio-metabolic reading of the industrialization of the United Kingdom / Heinz Schandl, Fridolin Krausmann -- The local base of the historical agrarian : industrial transition and the interaction between scales / Helmut Haberl, Fridolin Krausmann -- The local base of transitions in developing countries / Clemens M. Grünbühel, Simron J. Singh, Marina Fischer-Kowalski -- Transition in a contemporary context : patterns of development in a globalizing world / Nina Eisenmenger, Jesus Ramos Martin, Heinz Schandl -- Conclusions : likely and unlikely pasts, possible and impossible futures / Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Helmut Haberl, Fridolin Krausmann.

184720340X (hbk. : alk. paper) 9781847203403 (hbk. : alk. paper)

2007000703

GBA712590 bnb

013672971 Uk


Social ecology.
Social evolution.
Social change.
System theory.
Globalization--Economic aspects.
Globalization--Environmental aspects.

HM 861 / .S63 2007

304.2