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1 online resource (xii, 395 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-379) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ecology.
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Ecology. |
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Climatic changes.
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Climatic changes. |
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Environmental sciences.
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Environmental sciences. |
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Human ecology.
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Human ecology. |
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Social ecology.
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Social ecology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hornborg, Alf.
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Crumley, Carole L.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: World system and the Earth system. Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, ©2007 (DLC) 2006020200 |
| ISBN |
1598747452 (electronic book) |
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9781598747454 (electronic book) |
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9781598741001 (alkaline paper) |
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1598741004 (alkaline paper) |
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9781598741018 |
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1598741004 (alkaline paper) |
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1598741012 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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