Foreword 1 (Wolfgang Cramer and Steve Carpenter)

Foreword 2 (Donald Worster)

1. Introduction. Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research: Scope and History

PART I: LTSER Concepts, Methods and Linkages

1. 
   

   Sociometabolic Transitions and the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production: What Promise Do They Hold For LTSER?

   
   


2. 
   

   Integrated Socio-Ecological Modeling: Experiences From European LTSER Platforms

   
   


3. 
   

   Modeling Transport as a Key Constraint to Urbanization in Pre-Industrial Societies

   
   


4. 
   

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

   
   


5. 
   

   The Relevance of 'Critical Scales' For LTSER

   
   


6. 
   

   Biohistory

   
   


7. 
   

   Geographic Approaches to LTSER: Principal Themes And Concepts With a Case Study of Andes-Amazon Watersheds

   
   


8. 
   

   The Contribution of Anthropology To Concepts Guiding LTSER Research

   
   

PART II: LTSER Applications Across Ecosystems, Time and Space

1. 
   

   Viewing the Urban Socio-Ecological System Through a Sustainability Lens: Lessons and Prospects From the Central Arizona-Phoenix LTER Program

   
   


2. 
   

   A City and Its Hinterland: Vienna's Energy Metabolism 1800-2006

   
   


3. 
   

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

   
   


4. 
   

   How Material and Energy Flows Change Human Practices and Environments: The Transformation of Agriculture in the Eisenwurzen Region, 1860-2000

   
   


5. 
   

   The Intimacy of Human-Nature Interactions on Islands

   
   


6. 
   

   Global Socio-Metabolic Transitions

   
   

PART III: LTSER Formations and the Transdisciplinary Challenge

1. 
   

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

   
   


2. 
   

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

   
   


3. 
   

   Developing Socio-Ecological Research in Finland: Challenges and Progress Towards a Thriving LTSER Network

   
   


4. 
   

   The Eisenwurzen LTSER Platform (Austria) - Implementation and Services

   
   


5. 
   

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

   
   


6. 
   

   Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research in Mountain Regions: Perspectives From the Tyrolean Alps

   
   


7. 
   

   Experiences From the Ötztal Valley in the Tyrolean High Alps: The Transdisciplinary Challenge

   
   


8. 
   

   Conclusions
   Index