The Metabolism of Islands

This book makes the case for why we should care about islands and their sustainability. Islands are hotspots of biocultural diversity and home to 600 million people that depend on one-sixth of the earth’s total area, including the surrounding oceans, for their subsistence. Today, they are at the fro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores:	Singh, Simron (Editor), Fischer-Kowalski, Marina (Otro), Chertow, Marian
Formato:	Libro electrónico
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
Materias:	Research & information: general Biology, life sciences Ecological science, the Biosphere plastics Trinidad and Tobago institutional metabolism waste management islands public-private partnerships social metabolism island metabolism quiet sustainability Faroe Islands landesque capital historical political ecology overgrazing soil erosion rural abandonment sedentary extensive livestock systems Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) socio-ecological systems material flow analysis (MFA) mixed methods approach material stock analysis demolition of buildings GIS climate change global warming island sociometabolic regime transdisciplinary research real-world learning lab for sustainability transition livestock herding, subsidies and overgrazing tourism infrastructure UNESCO Biosphere Reserves MFA nexus approach industrial waste metabolic profile holarchy holon industrial ecology material flow analysis hurricane Irma territorial metabolism island waste management post-disaster stock and flow evolution Antigua and Barbuda tourism small island developing states (SIDS) island sustainability resource use and efficiency construction materials geographical information systems (GIS) island industrial ecology socio-metabolic research metabolic risk socio-metabolic collapse
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