Manuel González de Molina, Víctor M. Toledo. -- New York : Springer, 2014.

xxiv, 355 p.; 24 cm. -- (Environmental history ; v.3)

ISBN 978-3-319-06357-7.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.

Contenido: Introduction -- Environmental history as sustainability science -- Social metabolism: origins, approaches, and main publications -- The basic model -- Social metabolism at the local scale -- Social metabolism at the regional scale -- Social metabolism at the national scale -- Global metabolism -- The cinegetic or extractive mode of social metabolism -- The organic metabolism -- The industrial metabolism -- A non-cybernetic theory of social metabolism -- Metabolic transitions: a theory of socioecological transformation -- Epilogue: metabolism, entropy and sustainable society.