Overview
- Combines social, economic and environmental viewpoints to analyse social development in history
- Relevant for the UN Sustainable Development Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
- Collects practical applications of the social metabolism concept and highlights their main findings
Part of the book series: Environmental History (ENVHIS, volume 14)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
In this second edition, the authors provide valuable updates and new sections to each of the previous chapters. New insights on global phenomena like climate change and the environmental crisis are also considered. As readers will learn, a paradigm shift in almost all areas of research and society will be needed to face the challenges created by the modern industrial society. The authors use a look back in history, to explore the relationship between humans and nature from an evolutionary and thermodynamic perspective. With this approach, readers from history, environmental sciences and social sciences will get valuable insights on possible solutions.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Víctor Manuel Toledo is a Researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad (UNAM, México). He is biologist and has both a master's degree and a doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and has published 200 professional papers and 20 books. He is a researcher in Ecology at the UNAM and a visiting professor at the International University of Andalucía, Spain.[2] In 2011 he founded the Red Temática del Consejo Nacional del Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Thematic Network of the National Council of the National Council of Science and Technology, Conayct). He has worked in nine different Mexican universities, the University of California, Berkeley; in addition to universities in Venezuela, Cuba, Spain, Ecuador, and Brazil. He was granted the Premio Nacional Medio Ambiente (1985), the Premio Mérito Ecológico from the governor of the State of Mexico (1989), and the Luis Elizondo Prize of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (2000). He has served as Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) of Mexico from May 27, 2019 to September 2, 2020.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Social Metabolism
Book Subtitle: A Socio-Ecological Theory of Historical Change
Authors: Manuel González de Molina, Víctor M. Toledo
Series Title: Environmental History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48411-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-48410-0Published: 01 February 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-48413-1Due: 03 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-48411-7Published: 31 January 2024
Series ISSN: 2211-9019
Series E-ISSN: 2211-9027
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVI, 424
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Anthropology, History, general, Environment, general, Environmental Economics