Landesque Capital - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landesque Capital write by N Thomas Håkansson. This book was released on 2016-06-16. Landesque Capital available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the first comprehensive, global treatment of landesque capital, a widespread concept used to understand anthropogenic landscapes that serve important economic, social, and ritual purposes. Spanning the disciplines of anthropology, human ecology, geography, archaeology, and history, chapters combine theoretical rigor with in-depth empirical studies of major landscape modifications from ancient to contemporary times. They assess not only degradation but also the social, political, and economic institutions and contexts that make sustainability possible. Offering tightly edited, original contributions from leading scholars, this book will have a lasting influence on the study long-term human-environment relations in the human and natural sciences.
Rethinking Environmental History
Rethinking Environmental History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Environmental History write by Alf Hornborg. This book was released on 2007. Rethinking Environmental History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world systems over time. Alf Hornborg has brought together a group of the foremost writers from the social, historical and geographical sciences to provide an overview of the ecological dimension of global, economic processes, with a long-term, historical perspective. Readers are challenged to integrate studies of the Earth system with studies of the World system, and to reconceptualize human-environmental relations and the challenges of global sustainability. Immanuel Wallerstein, renowned Yale sociologist and originator of the world-system concept, closes the volume with his reflections on the intellectual, moral, and political implications of global environmental change.
Land Degradation and Society
Land Degradation and Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Land Degradation and Society write by Piers Blaikie. This book was released on 2015-07-30. Land Degradation and Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why does land management so often fail to prevent soil erosion, deforestation, salination and flooding? How serious are these problems, and for whom? This book, first published in 1987, sets out to answer these questions, which are still some of the most crucial issues in development today, using an approach called ‘regional political ecology’. This approach acknowledges that the reason why land management can fail are extremely varied, and must include a thorough understanding of the changing natural resource base itself, the human response to this, and broader changes in society, of which land managers are a part. Land Degradation and Society is essential reading for all students of geography, agriculture, social sciences, development studies and related subjects.
Ecology and Power
Ecology and Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecology and Power write by Alf Hornborg. This book was released on 2013-06-19. Ecology and Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Power and social inequality shape patterns of land use and resource management. This book explores this relationship from different perspectives, illuminating the complexity of interactions between human societies and nature. Most of the contributors use the perspective of "political ecology" as a point of departure, recognizing that human relations to the environment and human social relations are not separate phenomena but inextricably intertwined. What makes this volume unique is that it sets this approach in a trans-disciplinary, global, and historical framework.
The Metabolism of Islands
The Metabolism of Islands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Metabolism of Islands write by Simron Singh. This book was released on 2021-08-04. The Metabolism of Islands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book makes the case for why we should care about islands and their sustainability. Islands are hotspots of biocultural diversity and home to 600 million people that depend on one-sixth of the earth’s total area, including the surrounding oceans, for their subsistence. Today, they are at the frontlines of climate change and face an existential crisis. Islands are, however, potential “hubs of innovation” that are uniquely positioned to be leaders in sustainability and climate action. This volume argues that a full-fledged program on “island industrial ecology” is urgently needed, with the aim of offering policy-relevant insights and strategies to sustain small islands in an era of global environmental change. The nine contributions in this volume cover a wide range of applications of socio-metabolic research, from flow accounts to stock analysis and their relationship to services in space and time. They offer insights into how reconfiguring patterns of resource use will allow island governments to build resilience and adapt to the challenges of climate change.
