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" The world system and the Earth system : "
Alf Hornborg & Carole L. Crumley, eds
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BL
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694592
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b516781
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The world system and the Earth system : : global socioenvironmental change and sustainability since the Neolithic /\ Alf Hornborg Carole L. Crumley, eds
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Walnut Creek, CA :: Left Coast Press, Inc.,, c2007
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xii, 395 p. :: ill., maps ;; 23 cm
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1598741004 (alk. paper)
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: 1598741012 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-379) and index
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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
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Climatic changes
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Ecology
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Environmental sciences
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Human ecology
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Social ecology
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304.2
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QH541.W57 2007
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Crumley, Carole L
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Hornborg, Alf
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