The Metabolism of Islands

The Metabolism of Islands

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...

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Other Authors: Singh, Simron (Editor), Fischer-Kowalski, Marina (Editor), Chertow, Marian (Editor)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
Subjects:
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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