TY - BOOK ID - 136187959 TI - The Metabolism of Islands AU - Singh, Simron AU - Fischer-Kowalski, Marina AU - Chertow, Marian PY - 2021 PB - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - plastics KW - Trinidad and Tobago KW - institutional KW - metabolism KW - waste management KW - islands KW - public-private partnerships KW - social metabolism KW - island metabolism KW - quiet sustainability KW - Faroe Islands KW - landesque capital KW - historical political ecology KW - overgrazing KW - soil erosion KW - rural abandonment KW - sedentary extensive livestock systems KW - Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) KW - socio-ecological systems KW - material flow analysis (MFA) KW - mixed methods approach KW - material stock analysis KW - demolition of buildings KW - GIS KW - climate change KW - global warming KW - island sociometabolic regime KW - transdisciplinary research KW - real-world learning lab for sustainability transition KW - livestock herding, subsidies and overgrazing KW - tourism infrastructure KW - UNESCO Biosphere Reserves KW - MFA KW - nexus approach KW - industrial waste KW - metabolic profile KW - holarchy KW - holon KW - industrial ecology KW - material flow analysis KW - hurricane Irma KW - territorial metabolism KW - island waste management KW - post-disaster stock and flow evolution KW - Antigua and Barbuda KW - tourism KW - small island developing states (SIDS) KW - island sustainability KW - resource use and efficiency KW - construction materials KW - geographical information systems (GIS) KW - island industrial ecology KW - socio-metabolic research KW - metabolic risk KW - socio-metabolic collapse UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136187959 AB - 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 frontlines of climate change and face an existential crisis. Islands are, however, potential “hubs of innovation” that are uniquely positioned to be leaders in sustainability and climate action. This volume argues that a full-fledged program on “island industrial ecology” is urgently needed, with the aim of offering policy-relevant insights and strategies to sustain small islands in an era of global environmental change. The nine contributions in this volume cover a wide range of applications of socio-metabolic research, from flow accounts to stock analysis and their relationship to services in space and time. They offer insights into how reconfiguring patterns of resource use will allow island governments to build resilience and adapt to the challenges of climate change. ER -