Long Term Socio-Ecological Research

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Socioeconomic Metabolism and the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production: What Promise Do They Hold for LTSER?

Chapter 3 Using Integrated Models to Analyse Socio-ecological System Dynamics in Long-Term Socio-ecological Research – Austrian Experiences

Chapter 4 Modelling Transport as a Key Constraint to Urbanisation in Pre-industrial Societies

Chapter 5 The Environmental History of the Danube River Basin as an Issue of Long-Term Socio-ecological Research

Chapter 6 Critical Scales for Long-Term Socio-ecological Biodiversity Research

Chapter 7 Human Biohistory

Chapter 8 Geographic Approaches to LTSER: Principal Themes and Concepts with a Case Study of Andes-Amazon Watersheds

Chapter 9 The Contribution of Anthropology to Concepts Guiding LTSER Research

Chapter 10 Viewing the Urban Socio-ecological System Through a Sustainability Lens: Lessons and Prospects from the Central Arizona–Phoenix LTER Programme

Chapter 11 A City and Its Hinterland: Vienna’s Energy Metabolism 1800–2006

Chapter 12 Sustaining Agricultural Systems in the Old and New Worlds: A Long-Term Socio-Ecological Comparison

Chapter 13 How Material and Energy Flows Change Socio-natural Arrangements: The Transformation of Agriculture in the Eisenwurzen Region, 1860–2000

Chapter 14 The Intimacy of Human-Nature Interactions on Islands

Chapter 15 Global Socio-metabolic Transitions

Chapter 16 Building an Urban LTSER: The Case of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study and the D.C./B.C. ULTRA-Ex Project

Chapter 17 Development of LTSER Platforms in LTER-Europe: Challenges and Experiences in Implementing Place-Based Long-Term Socio-ecological Research in Selected Regions

Chapter 18 Developing Socio-ecological Research in Finland: Challenges and Progress Towards a Thriving LTSER Network

Chapter 19 The Eisenwurzen LTSER Platform (Austria) – Implementation and Services

Chapter 20 Fostering Research into Coupled Long-Term Dynamics of Climate, Land Use, Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services in the Central French Alps

Chapter 21 Long-Term Socio-ecological Research in Mountain Regions: Perspectives from the Tyrolean Alps

Chapter 22 Integrated Monitoring and Sustainability Assessment in the Tyrolean Alps: Experiences in Transdisciplinarity

Chapter 23 Conclusions