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Natural Resource Use and Global Change

New Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Social Ecology

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  • © 2013

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  1. Karl Bruckmeier

    1. University of Gothenburg, Sweden

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction — The Development of Social Ecology

    • Karl Bruckmeier
    Pages 1-10

  3. Interdisciplinary Research in Society and Nature in the 20th Century

    • Karl Bruckmeier
    Pages 11-43

  4. Sources of Social Ecology — Discourses on Society and Nature in Sociology

    • Karl Bruckmeier
    Pages 44-78

  5. Sources of Social Ecology — Ecosystems and Natural Resources in Ecological Discourses

    • Karl Bruckmeier
    Pages 79-113

  6. Thematic Profiles of Social Ecology — The Research on Resource Flows and the Physical Economy in a Global Context

    • Karl Bruckmeier
    Pages 114-144

  7. Thematic Profiles of Social Ecology — The Research on Human Land Use, Food and Biomass Production in European and Global Contexts

    • Karl Bruckmeier
    Pages 145-173

  8. Thematic Profiles of Social Ecology — Knowledge Synthesis in a Theory of Interaction of Society and Nature

    • Karl Bruckmeier
    Pages 174-205

  9. Social Ecology — A Science in Development

    • Karl Bruckmeier
    Pages 206-234

  10. Social Ecology and Practice — The Policy Process and the Social-Ecological Discourse

    • Karl Bruckmeier
    Pages 235-266

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 267-290
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About this book

Building on recent developments in social ecology, this book advances a new critical theory of society and nature, exploring social metabolism and global resource flows in contemporary society. Barriers to global sustainability are identified and conditions for transforming industrial economies towards new sustainable resource use are described.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Gothenburg, Sweden

    Karl Bruckmeier

About the author

KARL BRUCKMEIER is Professor in Human Ecology in the School of Global Studies, Gothenberg University, Sweden.

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