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Cultural evolution and social metabolism

Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography, 2011
The emergence of culture and cultural evolution is the result of an evolutionary process, evident also in non-human species. What is specifically human is the dominance of cultural evolution. This does not mean that cultural evolution has replaced organic evolution, but rather that both have merged into one coevolutionary complex.
exaly   +4 more sources

The social metabolism of Scotland: An environmental perspective

Energy Policy, 2017
Abstract The paper presents the results of a study that developed and applied social metabolism methods to assess the sustainability of a regional economy, particularly the dynamics related to changes in the production and use of energy. The first objective of the study was to assess the feasibility of using existing secondary data sources as a basis
Silvio Viglia, Sérgio Ulgiati
exaly   +3 more sources

The Social Metabolism of Quiet Sustainability in the Faroe Islands

Sustainability, 2020
This paper investigates the interrelations between social metabolism and socio-ecological sustainability in the Faroe Islands in a long-term perspective.
Ragnheiður Bogadóttir
exaly   +2 more sources

Marihuana: Metabolic and Social Progress

New England Journal of Medicine, 1972
The article by Lemberger and his associates in this issue marks an important step forward in determining the modes of action of the active agent in cannabis preparations. Because of the many variables involved in smoking marihuana (including hashish and other strong preparations), many persons have apparently concluded that the active agent in ...
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Social Metabolism at the Regional Scale

2014
Regarding material exchanges and flows, every Nation State (N) ultimately functions in the same way as a unit of appropriation/production (P), which means N reproduces the same operational processes of P, but at an exponentially higher scale. At the national scale, within the territory of each unit of N, material (produce, forest products, crops) and ...
Manuel González de Molina, Víctor M Toledo   +1 more
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Epidemics and Social Metabolism

Monthly Review
David E. Perlman and Ashly Vigneault explore the linkages between humanity's metabolic rift with nature and the accelerating emergence of epidemics, which are fundamentally related to the capitalist mode of production and concomitant alienated social metabolism.
David C. Perlman, Ashly Vigneault
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Social Metabolism at the Local Scale

2014
The best way to fully appreciate the complexity and theoretical potential of the idea of social metabolism is to understand the process of labor (human work) that is the starting point, trigger, key axis, and primeval unit of the historical development and evolution of human society as an emergent phenomenon of the universe.
Manuel González de Molina, Víctor M Toledo   +1 more
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