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The authors in this volume make a case for LTSER’s potential in providing insights, knowledge and experience necessary for a sustainability transition. This expertly edited selection of contributions from Europe and North America reviews the development of LTSER since its inception and assesses its current state, which has evolved to recognize the value of formulating solutions to the host of ecological threats we face. Through many case studies, this book gives the reader a greater sense of where we are and what still needs to be done to engage in and make meaning from long-term, place-based and cross-disciplinary engagements with socio-ecological systems.

Ecology -- Research. --- Ecology --Research -- Case studies. --- Human ecology --- Political ecology --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Anthropogeography & Human Ecology --- Environmental Sciences --- Ecology --- Sustainable living. --- Research. --- Ecological living --- Green living --- Living, Sustainable --- Ecological research --- Environment. --- Earth sciences. --- Sustainable development. --- Human geography. --- Sustainable Development. --- Earth Sciences, general. --- Human Geography. --- Alternative lifestyles --- Environmentalism --- Green movement --- Geography. --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Geography --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Environmental aspects --- Geosciences --- Environmental sciences --- Physical sciences

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This book delves into diverse local food systems and critically assesses their ecological and societal benefits and trade-offs, their limits and opportunities for improving sustainability of food production, and framework conditions which either hinder or promote their development.  More and more people with gradually meat heavier diets will demand growth in food production, whilst our increasingly industrialized and globalized agri-food system has already caused serious sustainability problems in the past. This calls for a change in the way we produce, distribute and consume food. A re-emerging debate on food security and food sovereignty seems to support this quest. But what are the promising alternatives to mainstream developments?  Such a discussion regarding sustainability of local food systems requires a sound systemic understanding and thus invites a socio-metabolic reading of local cases by analyzing the nexus between material and energy flows as well as land and time use. This approach is needed to complement the so far mostly qualitatively-based local food studies. Applying socio-metabolic approaches to local food systems fosters a better understanding of promises and pitfalls for sustainable pathways in the future.

Relation between energy and economics --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Agriculture. Animal husbandry. Hunting. Fishery --- Production management --- Environmental planning --- Economic geography --- ruimtelijke ordening --- duurzaamheid --- landbouw --- milieuzorg --- duurzame ontwikkeling --- geografie --- natuurlijke energiebronnen

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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.

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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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.

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 --- 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