- Alf HORNBORG & Carole CRUMLEY eds., 2007:
The World System and the Earth System
-- Global Socioenvironmental Change and Sustainability since the Neolithic.
Walnut Creek CA USA: Left Coast Press, 395 pp. ISBN 978-1-59784-101-8 (pbk.)
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Contents
- Contents
- Preface ... xi
- Contributors ... xii
- Introduction: Conceptualizing Socioecological Systems /Alf Hornborg (Lund University) ... 1
Part I. Modeling Socioecological Systems: General Perspectives ... 13
- 1. Historical Ecology: Integrated Thinking at Multiple Temporal and Spatial Scales /Carole L. Crumley (University of North Carolina) ... 15
- 2. Toward Developing Synergistic Linkages between the Biophysical and the Cultural: A Palaeoenvironmental Perspective /Frank Oldfield (University of Liverpool) ... 29
- 3. Integration of World and Earth Systems: Heritage and Foresight /John A. Dearing (University of Liverpool) ... 38
- 4. World Systems as a Complex Human Ecosystems /Thomas Abel (Tzu Chi University) ... 56
- 5. Lessons from Population Ecology for World-Systems Analyses of Long-Distance Synchrony /Thomas D. Hall (DePauw University) & Peter Turchin (University of Connecticut) ... 74
- 6. Sustainable Unsustainability: Toward a Comparative Study of Hegemonic Decline in Global Systems /Jonathan Friedman (Lund University) ... 91
Part II. Case Studies of Socioenvironmental Change in Prehistory ... 109
- 7. Agrarian Landscape Development in Northwestern Europe since the Neolithic Cultural and Climatic Factors behind a Regional/Continental Pattern /Björn E. Berglund (Lund University) ... 111
- 8. Climate Change in Southern and Eastern Africa during the Past Millennium and Its Implications for Societal Development /Karin Holmgren (Stockholm University) & Helena Öberg (Stockholm University) ... 121
- 9. World-Systems in the Biogeosphere: Urbanization, State Formation, and Climate Change Since the Iron Age /Christopher Chase-Dunn (University of California, Riverside), Thomas D. Hall (DePauw University) & Peter Turchin (University of Connecticut) ... 132
- 10. Eurasian Transformations: Mobility, Ecological Change, and the Transmission of Social Institutions in the Third Millennium and the Early Second Millennium B.C.E. /Kristian Kristiansen (University of Gothenburg) ... 149
- 11. Climate, Water, and Political-Economic Crises in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt /William R. Thompson (Indiana University) ... 163
- 12. Ages of Reorganization /George Modelski (University of Washington) ... 183
- 13. Sustainable Intensive Exploitation of Amazonia: Cultural, Environmental, and Geopolitical Perspectives /Betty J. Meggers (Smithsonian Institution) ... 195
- 14. Regional Integration and Ecology in Prehistoric Amazonia; Toward a System Perspective /Alf Hornborg (Lund University) ... 210
Part III. Is the World System Sustainable? Attempts toward an Integrated Socioecological Perspective ... 229
- 15. The Human-Environmental Nexus: Progress in the Past Decade in the Integrated Analysis of Human and Biophysical Factors /Emilio F. Moran (Indiana University) ... 239
- 16. In Search of Sustainability: What Can We Learn from the Past? /Bert J. M. de Vries (Bureau for Environmental Assessment, Bilthoven) ... 243
- 17. Political Ecology and Sustainability Science: Opportunity and Challenge /Susan C. Stonich (University of California, Santa Barbara) & Daniel S. Mandell (University of California, Santa Barbara) ... 258
- 18. No Island is an "Island": Some perspectives on Human Ecology and Development in Oceania /Thomas Malm (Lund University) ... 268
- 19. Infectious Diseases as Ecological and Historical Phenomena, with Special Reference to the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 /Alfred W. Crosby (University of Texas, Austin) ... 280
- 20. Evidence from Societal Metabolism Studies for Ecological Unequal Trade /Nina Eisenmenger (University of Klagenfurt) & Stefan Giljum (Sustainable Europe Research Institute) ... 288
- 21. Entropy Generation and Displacement: The Nineteenth-Century Multilateral Network of World Trade /Andre Gunder Frank (World History Center, Boston) ... 303
- References ... 317
- Index ... 381 - 395
2020-06-25
増田 耕一 (MASUDA Kooiti)