Readings on social metabolism and socio-ecological transformations

Here are some materials that relate to the topic of social ecological transformations and the social metabolism framework we discussed this afternoon. They may be particularly of interest for those enjoying academic readings, but also anyone wanting to extend and deepen the discussions started then.

• M Fischer-Kowalski, H Weisz, 1999. Society as hybrid between material and symbolic realms. Advances in human ecology.
• Evan D.G. Fraser; Warren Mabee; Olav Slaymaker, Mutual vulnerability, mutual dependence: The reflexive relation between human society and the environment. Global Environmental Change 13, 137-144.
• M Fischer-Kowalski et al. 2011, Sociometabolic transitions in subsistence communities: Boserup revisited in four comparative case studies. Human Ecology Review, Vol. 18, No. 2
• M Fischer-Kowalski, SJ Singh, L Ringhofer, 2010. Sociometabolic regimes in indigenous communities and the crucial role of working time: A comparison of case studies.

And here some own writings analysing sociometabolic crisis/transformations:

G Baptista, 2011. The Portuguese debt crisis: institutional tangles and the EU metabolic trap. Ecología Política 42.

G Baptista 2010. Bridging Environmental Conflicts With Social Metabolism Forestry Expansion And Socioeconomic Change.

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