The Metabolism of Islands

• Andere auteurs: Singh, Simron (Redacteur), Fischer-Kowalski, Marina (Redacteur), Chertow, Marian (Redacteur)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Onderwerpen: 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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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 th...