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Local Studies Manual: A researcher's guide for investigating the social metabolism of rural systems
- Title
- Local Studies Manual: A researcher's guide for investigating the social metabolism of rural systems
- Author(s)
- Simron J Singh
- Lisa Ringhofer
- Willi Haas
- Fridolin Krausmann
- Marina Fischer-Kowalski
- Year
- 2010
- Type
- Journal Article
- Source
-
Institute of Social Ecology
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction: The pur
pose of the
manual........................................................... 2
2. The conceptual a
nd methodological
base ......................................................... 4
2.1. Sociometabolic regi
mes and trans
itions
........................................................... 4
2.2. Linking social metabolis
m with functional
time use .......................................... 5
2.3. Scale in
teractions............................................................................................. 7
3. Describing rural soci
ometabolic
systems.......................................................... 9
3.1. The choice of an appr
opriate unit of
analysi
s................................................... 9
3.2. Defining the system boundary
of the focal so
cial system................................. 9
3.3. Functional (econo
mic) territ
ory....................................................................... 11
3.4. Human P
opulation
.......................................................................................... 13
3.5. Life time
/Labour ti
me...................................................................................... 14
3.6. Other biophy
sical st
ocks ................................................................................ 16
4. Methodological guidelines
by empirical
domains ........................................... 18
4.1 Introduct
ion ..................................................................................................... 18
4.2 Establishing
contact ........................................................................................ 19
4.3 Human Population (s
tocks and fl
ows) ............................................................. 21
4.4 Human time
use (flows
) ................................................................................. 22
4.5 Functional territory (stocks
by land use ca
tegories)
........................................ 25
4.6 Livestock
(stock) ............................................................................................. 28
4.7 Artefa
cts.......................................................................................................... 29
4.8 Material and E
nergy Flow
s.............................................................................. 30
4.8.1. Material
flows........................................................................................... 30
4.8.2 Energy flows (i
ncl. electr
icity)
................................................................... 39
5. Functional interrelations
and headline i
ndicators
........................................... 40
5.1 Basic system description
and system interre
lations
........................................ 40
5.2 Societies’ stocks (inclu
ding infrastruc
ture) ...................................................... 41
5.3 The Material
Use Syst
em................................................................................ 42
5.4 The Energy
System......................................................................................... 44
5.5 The Food
System............................................................................................ 45
5.6 Time Us
e Syst
em............................................................................................ 47
6. Post
Script
........................................................................................................... 48
Referenc
es .............................................................................................................. 49
Appendix 1: Abstracts of
selected public
ations ..................................................... 53
Appendix 2: Prints of exce
l templates (b
lank) ....................................................... 56
Appendix 3: Exemplary exce
l templates
(filled)
..................................................... 66
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