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001 2006020200
003 DLC
005 20080403173251.0
008 060620s2007 cauab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2006020200
020 $a9781598741001 (alk. paper)
020 $a1598741004 (alk. paper)
020 $a9781598741018 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a1598741012 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm70232275
035 $a(OCoLC)70232275$z(OCoLC)84654736
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dBAKER$dC#P$dBTCTA$dYDXCP$dDLC
050 00 $aQH541$b.W57 2007
082 00 $a304.2$222
245 04 $aThe world system and the Earth system :$bglobal socioenvironmental change and sustainability since the Neolithic /$cAlf Hornborg & Carole L. Crumley, eds.
260 $aWalnut Creek, CA :$bLeft Coast Press, Inc.,$cc2007.
300 $axii, 395 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 317-379) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
650 0 $aEcology.
650 0 $aClimatic changes.
650 0 $aEnvironmental sciences.
650 0 $aHuman ecology.
650 0 $aSocial ecology.
700 1 $aHornborg, Alf.
700 1 $aCrumley, Carole L.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0616/2006020200.html