The world system and the Earth system: global socioenvironmental change and sustainability since the neolithic

In this benchmark volume top scholars come together to present state-of-the-art research and pursue a more rigorous framework for understanding and studying the linkages between social and ecological systems.

Contributors from a wide spectrum of disciplines, including archaeology, anthropology, geography, ecology, palaeo-science, geology, sociology, and history, present and assess both the evolution of our thinking and current, state-of-the-art theory and research.

Covering ancient through modern periods, they discuss the complex ways in which human culture, economy, and demographics interact with ecology and climate change.

The World System and the Earth System is critical reading for all scholars and students working at the interface of nature and society.