Moran Environmental Social Science

Human - Environment interactions and Sustainability
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5827-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten, E-Book

Environmental Social Science offers a new synthesis ofenvironmental studies, defining the nature of human-environmentinteractions and providing the foundation for a newcross-disciplinary enterprise that will make critical theories andresearch methods accessible across the natural and social sciences.
* Makes key theories and methods of the social sciences availableto biologists and other environmental scientists
* Explains biological theories and concepts for the socialsciences community working on the environment
* Helps bridge one of the difficult divides in collaborative workin human-environment research
* Includes much-needed descriptions of how to carry out researchthat is multinational, multiscale, multitemporal, andmultidisciplinary within a complex systems theory context

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moran, Emilio F.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
1. The Challenge of Human-Environment InteractionsResearch.
The Evolution of Social Ecological Systems.
Characterization of Contemporary Global EnvironmentalChanges.
History of the Development of the Human Dimensions Agenda.
Characteristics of the Research on the Human Dimensions.
The Way Forward: Integrative Science.
2. Theories and Concepts from the Social Sciences.
Population, Technology and Central Place Theories .
Population and Environment Theories.
Agency and History.
Decision-theoretic Approaches.
Political Economy and Political Ecology.
Cultural Ecology.
3. Theories and Concepts from the BiologicalSciences.
Evolution by Natural Selection.
Species respond individualistically, not as communities, toenvironmental change.
Interactions with other species help determine if a particularspecies will persist in a particular place (Niche and NeutralTheories).
Top-down vs. bottom-up control in ecosystems.
Succession.
Island Biogeography.
Equilibrium/non-equilibrium theories of competition,coexistence, community composition
Biodiversity and ecosystem processes/services.
The Ecosystem Concept in Biology and the Social Sciences.
4. Spatially-Explicit Approaches.
Remote Sensing and GIS.
A Case Study using GIS/ Remote Sensing to study AmazonianDeforestation.
Urban-rural spatial dynamics.
Modeling and GIS.
5. Multi-Scale and Multi-temporal Analysis.
An approach to multi-disciplinary, multi-scale research.
Scale.
Local level of analysis.
Regional Level of Analysis.
Global Level of Analysis.
Future Directions.
6. Bio-complexity in Ecological Systems.
Spatially-explicit Processes in Ecological and SocialSystems.
Agent-Based Modeling of Complex Systems.
Hierarchical Modeling.
Conclusions.
7. Environmental Decision-Making.
Institutional Analysis.
Individual Behavior and Environmental Decisions.
Decisions and Social Context.
Conclusions.
8. Towards Sustainability Science.
Sustainability Science Research Priorities.
Scales of Sustainability.
Cities and Sustainability Science.
Climate Change and Sustainability.
Conclusions.
Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Emilio F. Moran is Distinguished Professor and Rudy Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Environmental Sciences at Indiana University in Bloomington. He is the author of Through Amazonian Eyes: the human ecology of Amazonian Populations (1993), Human Adaptability, 3rd Edition (2007), and People and Nature (2006, Blackwell).