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List of contents
Preface 1: Beyond the Argument Culture Robert Costanza Preface 2: Embracing Fewer Answers Richard Norgaard 1. Introduction 2. Social Metabolism, Ecological Distribution Conflicts and Languages of Valuation Joan Martínez-Alier 3. What Lies Beyond Reductionism? Taking stock of inter-disciplinary research in ecological economics Katharine N. Farrell, Tommaso Luzzati and Sybille van den Hove 4. The Maturing of the Structural Contradictions of Modern European Science: An exploratory sketch Jerome R. Ravetz 5. Beyond Reductionism: Understanding the "ecology" of human nature Mary E. Clark 6. Building a Career in the Epistemological No Man's Land John Barry and Katharine N. Farrell 7. How Ecofeminists Use Complexity in Ecological Economics Ariel Salleh, Mary Mellor and Katharine N. Farrell 8. Two Conceptual Tools for Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism (MuSIASEM): "Multi-Purpose Grammars" and "Impredicative Loop Analysis" Mario Giampietro, Kozo Mayumi and Jesús Ramos-Martín 9. Looking for a Place to Anchor: Confusing thoughts along an interdisciplinary dissertation journey Minna Santaoja, Raphael Treffny, Cordula Mertens and Catherine Jolibert, with Katharine N. Farrell 10. Probing the Boundaries of Resilience Science in Practice Brian H. Walker and C.S. Holling 11. Beyond Reductionism: Issues for future research on sustainability Arild Vatn
About the author
Katharine Farrell is an Associated Researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain and Lecturer at the Division of Resource Economics at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany.
Tommaso Luzzati is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Pisa, Italy.
Sybille van den Hove is Director and Partner of MEDIAN S.C.P. and Visiting Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
Summary
This is a book about the work of scientists in the era of the Anthropocene: where human beings appear to have become a driving force in the evolution of the planet. It is a diverse collection of empirical, methodological and theoretical chapters concerned with the practice of interdisciplinary social-ecological systems research.
