Environmental Social Science : Human-Environment Interactions and Sustainability
by Moran, Emilio F.Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-02-08
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
Environmental Social Science offers a new synthesis of environmental studies, defining the nature of human-environment interactions and providing the foundation for a new cross-disciplinary enterprise that will make critical theories and research methods accessible across the natural and social sciences. Makes key theories and methods of the social sciences available to biologists and other environmental scientists Explains biological theories and concepts for the social sciences community working on the environment Helps br idge one of the difficult divides in collaborative work in human-environment research Includes much-needed descriptions of how to carry out research that is multinational, multiscale, multitemporal, and multidisciplinary within a complex systems theory context
Author Biography
Emilio F. Moran is Distinguished Professor and Rudy Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Environmental Sciences at Indiana University in Bloomington.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xi |
| The Challenge of Human-Environment Interactions Research | p. 1 |
| The Evolution of Social Ecological Systems | p. 2 |
| Characterization of Contemporary Global Environmental Changes | p. 7 |
| History of the Development of the Human Dimensions Agenda | p. 16 |
| Characteristics of the Research on the Human Dimensions | p. 20 |
| The Way Forward: Integrative Science | p. 22 |
| Theories and Concepts from the Social Sciences | p. 25 |
| Population, Technology, and Central Place Theories | p. 25 |
| Population and Environment Theories | p. 31 |
| Agency and History | p. 34 |
| Decision-theoretic Approaches | p. 37 |
| Political Economy and Political Ecology | p. 42 |
| Cultural Ecology | p. 46 |
| Theories and Concepts from the Biological Sciences | p. 49 |
| Evolution by Natural Selection | p. 50 |
| Species Respond Individualistically, Not as Communities | p. 51 |
| Interactions with Other Species: Niche and Neutral Theories | p. 52 |
| Top-down vs. Bottom-up Control in Ecosystems | p. 53 |
| Succession | p. 54 |
| Island Biogeography | p. 59 |
| Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Theories | p. 61 |
| Biodiversity and Ecosystem Processes/Services | p. 62 |
| The Ecosystem Concept in Biology and the Social Sciences | p. 63 |
| Spatially Explicit Approaches | p. 70 |
| Remote Sensing and GIS | p. 74 |
| A Case Study Using GIS/Remote Sensing to Study Amazonian Deforestation | p. 77 |
| Urban-Rural Spatial Dynamics | p. 83 |
| Modeling and GIS | p. 88 |
| Multi-scale and Multi-temporal Analysis | p. 93 |
| An Approach to Multidisciplinary, Multi-scale Research | p. 97 |
| Scale | p. 100 |
| Local Level of Analysis | p. 103 |
| Regional Level of Analysis | p. 106 |
| Global Level of Analysis | p. 108 |
| Future Directions | p. 110 |
| Biocomplexity in Ecological Systems | p. 112 |
| Introduction | p. 112 |
| Spatially Explicit Processes in Ecological and Social Systems | p. 115 |
| Agent-based Modeling of Complex Systems | p. 120 |
| Hierarchical Modeling | p. 124 |
| Conclusions | p. 124 |
| Environmental Decision Making | p. 126 |
| Institutional Analysis | p. 131 |
| Individual Behavior and Environmental Decisions | p. 134 |
| Decisions and Social Context | p. 136 |
| Conclusions | p. 140 |
| Towards Sustainability Science | p. 143 |
| Sustainability Science Research Priorities | p. 145 |
| Scales of Sustainability | p. 149 |
| Cities and Sustainability Science | p. 149 |
| Climate Change and Sustainability | p. 153 |
| Conclusions | p. 156 |
| References | p. 158 |
| Index | p. 203 |
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