Long term socio-ecological research : studies in society-nature interactions across spatial and temporal scales
Title:
Long term socio-ecological research : studies in society-nature interactions across spatial and temporal scales
Author:
Singh, Simron Jit, 1969- editor.
ISBN:
9789400711761
9789400711778
Physical Description:
xxxvii, 588 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Series:
Human-environment interactions ; v. 2
Human-environment interactions (Springer (Firm)) ; v. 2.
Contents:
1. Introduction / Martin Schmid -- pt. I LTSER Concepts, Methods and Linkages -- 2. Socioeconomic Metabolism and the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production: What Promise Do They Hold for LTSER? / Simron Jit Singh -- 3. Using Integrated Models to Analyse Socio-ecological System Dynamics in Long-Term Socio-ecological Research -- Austrian Experiences / Helmut Haberl -- 4. Modelling Transport as a Key Constraint to Urbanisation in Pre-industrial Societies / Barbara Smetschka -- 5. The Environmental History of the Danube River Basin as an Issue of Long-Term Socio-ecological Research / Gertrud Haidvogl -- 6. Critical Scales for Long-Term Socio-ecological Biodiversity Research / Sander M.J. Wijdeven -- 7. Human Biohistory / Stephen Boyden -- 8. Geographic Approaches to LTSER: Principal Themes and Concepts with a Case Study of Andes-Amazon Watersheds / Karl S. Zimmerer.
Note continued: 9. The Contribution of Anthropology to Concepts Guiding LTSER Research / Ted L. Gragson -- pt. 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 Programme / B.L. Turner -- 11.A City and Its Hinterland: Vienna's Energy Metabolism 1800-2006 / Fridolin Krausmann -- 12. Sustaining Agricultural Systems in the Old and New Worlds: A Long-Term Socio-Ecological Comparison / Fridolin Krausmann -- 13. How Material and Energy Flows Change Socio-natural Arrangements: The Transformation of Agriculture in the Eisenwurzen Region, 1860-2000 / Fridolin Krausmann -- 14. The Intimacy of Human-Nature Interactions on Islands / Weslynne Ashton -- 15. Global Socio-metabolic Transitions / Marina Fischer-Kowalski -- pt. III LTSER Formations and the Transdisciplinary Challenge.
Note continued: 16. Building an Urban LTSER: The Case of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study and the D.C./B.C. ULTRA-Ex Project / Mary L. Cadenasso -- 17. Development of LTSER Platforms in LTER-Europe: Challenges and Experiences in Implementing Place-Based Long-Term Socio-ecological Research in Selected Regions / Mark Frenzel -- 18. Developing Socio-ecological Research in Finland: Challenges and Progress Towards a Thriving LTSER Network / Taru Peltola -- 19. The Eisenwurzen LTSER Platform (Austria) -- Implementation and Services / Michael Mirtl -- 20. Fostering Research into Coupled Long-Term Dynamics of Climate, Land Use, Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services in the Central French Alps / Philippe Cozic -- 21. Long-Term Socio-ecological Research in Mountain Regions: Perspectives from the Tyrolean Alps / Michael Bahn -- 22. Integrated Monitoring and Sustainability Assessment in the Tyrolean Alps: Experiences in Transdisciplinarity / Ariane Walz -- 23. Conclusions / Martin Schmid.
Abstract:
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 current state, which has evolved to recognize the value of formulating solutions to the host of ecological threats we face. Through many case studies, this book gives the reader a greater sense of where we are and what still needs to be done to engage in and make meaning from long-term, place-based and cross-disciplinary engagements with socio-ecological systems.
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