Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Martin Schmid -- pt. I LTSER Concepts, Methods and Linkages -- 2. Socioeconomic Metabolism and the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production: What Promise Do They Hold for LTSER? / Simron Jit Singh -- 3. Using Integrated Models to Analyse Socio-ecological System Dynamics in Long-Term Socio-ecological Research -- Austrian Experiences / Helmut Haberl -- 4. Modelling Transport as a Key Constraint to Urbanisation in Pre-industrial Societies / Barbara Smetschka -- 5. The Environmental History of the Danube River Basin as an Issue of Long-Term Socio-ecological Research / Gertrud Haidvogl -- 6. Critical Scales for Long-Term Socio-ecological Biodiversity Research / Sander M.J. Wijdeven -- 7. Human Biohistory / Stephen Boyden -- 8. Geographic Approaches to LTSER: Principal Themes and Concepts with a Case Study of Andes-Amazon Watersheds / Karl S. Zimmerer.

Contents note continued: 9. The Contribution of Anthropology to Concepts Guiding LTSER Research / Ted L. Gragson -- pt. II LTSER Applications Across Ecosystems, Time and Space -- 10. Viewing the Urban Socio-ecological System Through a Sustainability Lens: Lessons and Prospects from the Central Arizona-Phoenix LTER Programme / B.L. Turner -- 11.A City and Its Hinterland: Vienna's Energy Metabolism 1800-2006 / Fridolin Krausmann -- 12. Sustaining Agricultural Systems in the Old and New Worlds: A Long-Term Socio-Ecological Comparison / Fridolin Krausmann -- 13. How Material and Energy Flows Change Socio-natural Arrangements: The Transformation of Agriculture in the Eisenwurzen Region, 1860-2000 / Fridolin Krausmann -- 14. The Intimacy of Human-Nature Interactions on Islands / Weslynne Ashton -- 15. Global Socio-metabolic Transitions / Marina Fischer-Kowalski -- pt. III LTSER Formations and the Transdisciplinary Challenge.

Contents note continued: 16. Building an Urban LTSER: The Case of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study and the D.C./B.C. ULTRA-Ex Project / Mary L. Cadenasso -- 17. Development of LTSER Platforms in LTER-Europe: Challenges and Experiences in Implementing Place-Based Long-Term Socio-ecological Research in Selected Regions / Mark Frenzel -- 18. Developing Socio-ecological Research in Finland: Challenges and Progress Towards a Thriving LTSER Network / Taru Peltola -- 19. The Eisenwurzen LTSER Platform (Austria) -- Implementation and Services / Michael Mirtl -- 20. Fostering Research into Coupled Long-Term Dynamics of Climate, Land Use, Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services in the Central French Alps / Philippe Cozic -- 21. Long-Term Socio-ecological Research in Mountain Regions: Perspectives from the Tyrolean Alps / Michael Bahn -- 22. Integrated Monitoring and Sustainability Assessment in the Tyrolean Alps: Experiences in Transdisciplinarity / Ariane Walz -- 23. Conclusions / Martin Schmid.