Overview
- Traces the developing bonds between ecology and a range of other disciplines
- Includes analysis of numerous case studies varying widely in location and time
- Features in-depth research spanning several fields of socio-ecological inquiry
Part of the book series: Human-Environment Interactions (HUEN, volume 2)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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LTSER Concepts, Methods and Linkages
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Front Matter
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LTSER Concepts, methods and linkages
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LTSER Applications Across Ecosystems, Time and Space
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LTSER Applications across ecosystems, time and space
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LTSER Formations and the Transdisciplinary Challenge
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LTSER Formations and the transdisciplinary challenge
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Over the last half century, exceptional changes in the natural environment attributed to human activities have placed renewed importance on the study of society-nature interactions. Around the globe, ever increasing human demands on ecosystems not only harm the environment, but also induce great potential for social conflict. In this sense sustainability problems are not only “ecological” but also “socio-ecological” since the ways societies interact with the environment affects both ecosystems and social systems.
The emerging interdisciplinary field of Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER) is primarily concerned with questions of global environmental change and sustainability. It aims to conceptualise, observe, analyse, and model changes in coupled socio-ecological (or human-environment) systems over one to several generations. Tracking these dynamics and changes in socio-ecological systems over extended periods is accomplished in research traditions that include social and human ecology, industrial ecology, environmental history, human geography and anthropology. In recognising research that takes a long-term perspective on society–nature interactions, conceptually and empirically, as well as approaches that engage society in this quest, LTSER aims to provide a knowledge base that helps reorient socio-economic trajectories towards more sustainable pathways.
The authors in this volume make a case for LTSER’s potential in providing insights, knowledge and experience necessary for a sustainability transition. This expertly edited selection of contributions from Europe and North America reviews the development of LTSER since its inception and assesses its current state, which has evolved to recognize the value of formulating solutions to the host of ecological threats we face. Through many case studies, this book gives the reader a greater sense of where we are and what still needs to be done to engage in and make meaning fromlong-term, place-based and cross-disciplinary engagements with socio-ecological systems.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Long Term Socio-Ecological Research
Book Subtitle: Studies in Society-Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales
Editors: Simron Jit Singh, Helmut Haberl, Marian Chertow, Michael Mirtl, Martin Schmid
Series Title: Human-Environment Interactions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1177-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1176-1Published: 12 November 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9993-6Published: 14 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1177-8Published: 13 November 2012
Series ISSN: 2214-2339
Series E-ISSN: 2452-1744
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVIII, 590
Topics: Sustainable Development, Earth Sciences, general, Human Geography