دانلود کتاب The World System and the Earth System. Global Socio Environmental Change and Sustainability since the Neolithic

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Contents
Preface by Alf Hornborg
Contributors
Introduction: Conceptualizing Socioecological Systems by Alf Hornborg
PART I: MODELING SOCIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS: GENERAL PERSPECTIVES
1. Historical Ecology: Integrated Thinking at Multiple Temporal and Spatial Scales by Carole L. Crumley
2. Toward Developing Synergistic Linkages between the Biophysical and the Cultural: A Paleoenvironmental Perspective by Frank Oldfield
3. Integration of World and Earth Systems: Heritage and Foresight by John A. Dearing
4. World -Systems as Complex Human Ecosystems by Thomas Abel
5. Lessons from Population Ecology for World Systems Analyses of Long-Distance Synchrony by Thomas D. Hall and Peter Turchin
6. Sustainable Unsustainability: Toward a Comparative Study of Hegemonic Decline in Global Systems by Jonathan Friedman
PART II: CASE STUDIES OF SOCIOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN PREHISTORY
7. Agrarian Landscape Development in Northwestern Europe Since the Neolithic: Cultural and Climatic Factors behind a Regional/Continental Pattern by Björn E. Berglund
8. Climate Change in Southern and Eastern Africa during the Past Millennium and Its Implications for Societal Development by Karin Holmgren and Helena Öberg
9. World-Systems in the Biogeosphere: Urbanization, State Formation and Climate Change Since the Iron Age by Christopher Chase-Dunn, Thomas D. Hall and Peter Turchin
10. Eurasian Transformations: Mobility, Ecological Change, and the Transmission of Social Institutions in the Third Millennium and the Early Second Millennium B.C.E. by Kristian Kristiansen
11. Climate, Water, and Political-Economic Crises in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt by William R. Thompson
12. Ages of Reorganization by George Modelski
13. Sustainable Intensive Exploitation of Amazonia: Cultural, Environmental, and Geopolitical Perspectives by Betty J. Meggers
14. Regional Integration and Ecology in Prehistoric Amazonia: Toward a System Perspective by Alf Hornborg
PART III: IS THE WORLD-SYSTEM SUSTAINABLE? ATTEMPTS TOWARD AN INTEGRATED SOCIOECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
15. The Human-Environment Nexus: Progress in the Past Decade in the Integrated Analysis of Human and Biophysical Factors by Emilio F. Moran
16. In Search of Sustainability: What Can We Learn from the Past? by Bert J. M. Vries
17. Political Ecology and Sustainability Science: Opportunity and Challenge by Susan C. Stinich and Daniel S. Mandell
18. No Island Is an \'\'Island\": Some Perspectives on Human Ecology and Development in Oceania by Thomas Malm
19. Infectious Diseases as Ecological and Historical Phenomena, with Special Reference to the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 by Alfred W. Crosby
20. Evidence from Societal Metabolism Studies for Ecological Unequal Trade by Nina Eisenmenger and Stefan Gilium
21. Entropy Generation and Displacement: The Nineteenth-Century Multilateral Network of World Trade by Andre Gunder Frank
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