Ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability: an overview and conceptual framework

A Scheidel, L Temper, F Demaria, J Martínez-Alier - Sustainability science, 2018‏ - Springer
Can ecological distribution conflicts turn into forces for sustainability? This overview paper
addresses in a systematic conceptual manner the question of why, through whom, how, and …

Sustainability science: a review, an analysis and some empirical lessons

JH Spangenberg - Environmental Conservation, 2011‏ - cambridge.org
Sustainability science has developed from a new research field into a vibrant discipline in its
own right, with scientific conferences, journals and scientific societies dedicated to its …

Map** the frontiers and front lines of global environmental justice: the EJAtlas

L Temper, D Del Bene… - Journal of political …, 2015‏ - journals.uair.arizona.edu
This article highlights the need for collaborative research on ecological conflicts within a
global perspective. As the social metabolism of our industrial economy increases …

[ספר][B] The social metabolism: a socio-ecological theory of historical change

MG De Molina, VM Toledo, VM Toledo - 2014‏ - Springer
This book helps readers to understand the fast growing and timely concept of social
metabolism. The authors shed a light on the different existing terms and methodologies that …

Social sustainability: a catchword between political pragmatism and social theory

B Littig, E Griessler - International journal of sustainable …, 2005‏ - inderscienceonline.com
The sustainability concepts of the" Brundtland-Report" and the" Rio documents" call for a
combination of ecological, economic, social and institutional aspects of social development …

Interdisciplinary perspectives on urban metabolism

VC Broto, A Allen, E Rapoport - Journal of industrial ecology, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
The concept of urban metabolism, referring to the exchange processes that produce the
urban environment, has inspired new ways of thinking about how cities can be made …

Society's metabolism: the intellectual history of materials flow analysis, Part I, 1860–1970

M Fischer‐Kowalski - Journal of industrial ecology, 1998‏ - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we inquire into the intellectual history ofthe application of the biological
concept of metabolism to social systems‐not as a metaphor; but as a material and energetic …

Food as exposure: Nutritional epigenetics and the new metabolism

H Landecker - BioSocieties, 2011‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Nutritional epigenetics seeks to explain the effects of nutrition on gene expression. For
social science, it is an area of life science whose analysis reveals a concentrated form of a …

Human agency in the Anthropocene

IM Otto, M Wiedermann, R Cremades, JF Donges… - Ecological …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The human species has been recognized as a new force that has pushed the Earth's system
into a new geological epoch referred to as the Anthropocene. This human influence was not …

Resource accounting for sustainability assessment

M Giampietro, RJ Aspinall… - Resource Accounting …, 2014‏ - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter illustrates the integrated accounting for exosomatic energy flows across
different scales of analysis bridging the internal and the external view on the societal energy …