Ebook: Long Term Socio-Ecological Research: Studies in Society-Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales

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 from long-term, place-based and cross-disciplinary engagements with socio-ecological systems.

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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 from long-term, place-based and cross-disciplinary engagements with socio-ecological systems.

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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 from long-term, place-based and cross-disciplinary engagements with socio-ecological systems.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxxvii
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Socioeconomic Metabolism and the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production: What Promise Do They Hold for LTSER?....Pages 29-52
Using Integrated Models to Analyse Socio-ecological System Dynamics in Long-Term Socio-ecological Research – Austrian Experiences....Pages 53-75
Modelling Transport as a Key Constraint to Urbanisation in Pre-industrial Societies....Pages 77-101
The Environmental History of the Danube River Basin as an Issue of Long-Term Socio-ecological Research....Pages 103-122
Critical Scales for Long-Term Socio-ecological Biodiversity Research....Pages 123-138
Human Biohistory....Pages 139-161
Geographic Approaches to LTSER: Principal Themes and Concepts with a Case Study of Andes-Amazon Watersheds....Pages 163-187
The Contribution of Anthropology to Concepts Guiding LTSER Research....Pages 189-214
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
Viewing the Urban Socio-ecological System Through a Sustainability Lens: Lessons and Prospects from the Central Arizona–Phoenix LTER Programme....Pages 217-246
A City and Its Hinterland: Vienna’s Energy Metabolism 1800–2006....Pages 247-268
Sustaining Agricultural Systems in the Old and New Worlds: A Long-Term Socio-Ecological Comparison....Pages 269-296
How Material and Energy Flows Change Socio-natural Arrangements: The Transformation of Agriculture in the Eisenwurzen Region, 1860–2000....Pages 297-313
The Intimacy of Human-Nature Interactions on Islands....Pages 315-337
Global Socio-metabolic Transitions....Pages 339-365
Front Matter....Pages 367-367
Building an Urban LTSER: The Case of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study and the D.C./B.C. ULTRA-Ex Project....Pages 369-408
Development of LTSER Platforms in LTER-Europe: Challenges and Experiences in Implementing Place-Based Long-Term Socio-ecological Research in Selected Regions....Pages 409-442
Developing Socio-ecological Research in Finland: Challenges and Progress Towards a Thriving LTSER Network....Pages 443-459
The Eisenwurzen LTSER Platform (Austria) – Implementation and Services....Pages 461-484
Fostering Research into Coupled Long-Term Dynamics of Climate, Land Use, Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services in the Central French Alps....Pages 485-504
Introduction....Pages 1-26
Front Matter....Pages 367-367
Long-Term Socio-ecological Research in Mountain Regions: Perspectives from the Tyrolean Alps....Pages 505-525
Integrated Monitoring and Sustainability Assessment in the Tyrolean Alps: Experiences in Transdisciplinarity....Pages 527-554
Conclusions....Pages 555-561
Back Matter....Pages 563-588