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Ecological Modelling, 2011
Abstract Rust belt cities of the northeastern United States are plagued by flat or declining economies and the accompanying social fallout from lack of employment. Advocates of green fuels, green infrastructure and green jobs have proposed these nature-based technologies as means to revitalize the economies of cities. Before making public and private
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Abstract Rust belt cities of the northeastern United States are plagued by flat or declining economies and the accompanying social fallout from lack of employment. Advocates of green fuels, green infrastructure and green jobs have proposed these nature-based technologies as means to revitalize the economies of cities. Before making public and private
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Review of Radical Political Economics
In the context of ecological crisis and ecological transitions, socio-ecological conflicts are increasing. While their material causes are often attributed to socio-metabolic changes, I argue they also arise from the continuity of capitalist social metabolism, reflecting longstanding contradictions.
Marta Vallve Navarro
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In the context of ecological crisis and ecological transitions, socio-ecological conflicts are increasing. While their material causes are often attributed to socio-metabolic changes, I argue they also arise from the continuity of capitalist social metabolism, reflecting longstanding contradictions.
Marta Vallve Navarro
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The Water Metabolism of Socio‐Ecological Systems: Reflections and a Conceptual Framework
Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2015Summary Water accounting is an unresolved issue in metabolism studies. Through epistemological analysis, we show that the problem resides in the conceptualization of social metabolism. Social metabolism has its origins in the analysis of societal energetics, which has led to an exclusive focus on society and a representation based on ...
Cristina Madrid-López, Mario Giampietro
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Metabolic Transitions: A Theory of Socioecological Transformation
2014In the preceding chapters we made a detailed description of the concept of social metabolism which we synthesized in a basic model, we distinguished three main types of social metabolism along history, and we visualized a conceptual framework having as theoretical axis the concepts of entropy, evolution, sustainability, and cooperation (Chap. 12). What
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Critical Sociology, 2012
Mountaintop removal is the most profitable and efficient way to extract the low-sulfur, bituminous coal found in Appalachia. This form of mining involves the blasting and leveling of entire mountain ranges, which dismantles integrated ecosystems and communities.
Kelly Austin, Brett Clark
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Mountaintop removal is the most profitable and efficient way to extract the low-sulfur, bituminous coal found in Appalachia. This form of mining involves the blasting and leveling of entire mountain ranges, which dismantles integrated ecosystems and communities.
Kelly Austin, Brett Clark
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Socio-Ecological Metabolism of Rural Society
2005It is shown the difference between ecological (natural) metabolism and socio-ecological (mediated by the society) metabolism. There are also differentiates between rural socio-ecological metabolism (metabolism of a peasants society, countryside society) and urban socio-ecological metabolism (industrial metabolism).
Cifrić, Ivan, Svirčić, Anđelina
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Canadian Journal of History, 2015
The Social Metabolism: A Socio-Ecological Theory of Historical Change, by Manuel Gonzalez de Molina and Victor M. Toledo. Environmental History. New York & London, Springer International Publishing, 2014. xxiv, 355 pp. $129.00 US (cloth). This book emphasizes two themes often evident in environmental history scholarship: relevance to environmental ...
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The Social Metabolism: A Socio-Ecological Theory of Historical Change, by Manuel Gonzalez de Molina and Victor M. Toledo. Environmental History. New York & London, Springer International Publishing, 2014. xxiv, 355 pp. $129.00 US (cloth). This book emphasizes two themes often evident in environmental history scholarship: relevance to environmental ...
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