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Discussions at the Table
Challenged on multiple fronts, humanity and Earth are caught in a tangle. The chapter that follows is an introduction to the next steps in the...
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Impacts of payment for ecosystem services of mountain agricultural landscapes on farming women in Nepal
This study assesses the potential impacts of Payment for Ecosystems Services (PES) of mountain agricultural landscapes, with a specific focus on the...
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Microbes, chemicals and the health of homes: integrating theories to account for more-than-human entanglements
In the post-war period, the health risks posed by indoor environments have both transformed and challenged notions of environmental health centred on...
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Indonesia: A Bioregional Prospect for the Malang Peri-urban Area
This section presents Malang, Indonesia, as a practical example of the challenges and opportunities for resilient agriculture in an urbanising...
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Conceptual Background of Transformative Social-Ecological Innovation
In this chapter I survey key theories and concepts that provide substance to the workings of Transformative Social-Ecological Innovation (TSEI). A...
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Future Food Systems
Humanity is in a planetary emergency. Agriculture and food systems are contributing to an interconnected global environmental crisis, with increasing...
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Future Food Systems
Humanity is in a planetary emergency. Agriculture and food systems are contributing to an interconnected global environmental crisis, with increasing...
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The Worldeater(s) in Process: Uncovering the Nexus of Conventional and ‘Green’ Extraction
This chapter interrogates the subtle shifts and blurring lines between conventional extraction—mineral and hydrocarbon—and ‘green’...
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Wetlands in Depth: The Waterscapes of Bedfordshire, North Lincolnshire and Somerset
This chapter begins to interrogate the themes outlined in Chap. 1 by making use of data drawn from the...
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Governance and Sustainability Transitions in Urban Informality
At the beginning of the new millennium, innovative urban planning focused on urban sustainability transitions to tackle the major urban challenges,...
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An Alternative Agricultural Space in an Indigenous Community: Kalala, Taiwan
Indigenous regions in Taiwan are marginal to the mainstream vision in both social and economic senses. Although it is acknowledged that organic...
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Analysis of farmers’ participation decision and its level in honey marketing in Ethiopia
The study conducted at Dangila district, Ahmara National Regional state, Ethiopia. Inadequate information with regard to marketing participation and...
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Peasant Farming as a Source of Life
Peasant farming persists despite centuries of attempts to make it disappear. Revisiting Daoism, the duality between nature and culture in Western...
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Using the Past to Chart Future Pathways?
Given this rich, diverse, and connected past, what will the futureFutures be like for East African societies, ecosystemsEcosystem, and landscapes?...
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Return to the Land in Times of Crisis: Experiences, Policies and Narratives in an Inner Periphery of Southern Italy
This study analyzes return to the land dynamics in an inner periphery of Southern Italy during the recent economic crisis. The core questions concern...
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Living and labouring soils: Metagenomic ecology and a new agricultural revolution?
Soils teem with life, yet only in the last two decades have genomic approaches begun to reveal the secret liveliness of soil. No longer understood as...
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Contextualising Complex Systems: Modes of Production and Social-Ecological Metabolism
This chapter takes forward questions of the social properties of systems, arguing that a full appreciation of social context – in its broadest...
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Energy and the Social Sciences
This chapter introduces the social and behavioral sciences into our understanding of energy systems. Geographer Mike Pasqualetti argues that energy...
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Disequilibrium, Adaptation, and the Norse Settlement of Greenland
There is increasing evidence to suggest that arctic cultures and ecosystems have followed non-linear responses to climate change. Norse Scandinavian...
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Sociological Approaches to Work in Romania Since 1945
This chapter traces the post-war development of sociological approaches to work, labour and industrial relations in the Romanian case. We follow the...