Sustainability Science
The Emerging Paradigm and the Urban Environment
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book describes the nascent field of sustainability science, and shows how technology systems will play a key role in matching the most appropriate science and technology solutions to specific sustainability problems in specific places.
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This book describes the nascent field of sustainability science, and shows how technology systems will play a key role in matching the most appropriate science and technology solutions to specific sustainability problems in specific places.
Klappentext zu „Sustainability Science “
The object of this book is to highlight how the nascent field of sustainability science is addressing a key challenges for scientists; that is, understanding the workings of complex systems especially when humans are involved. A consistent thread in the sustainability science movement is the wide acknowledgement that greater degrees of integration across what are now segmented dimensions of extant Science and Technology systems will be a key factor in matching the most appropriate science and technology solutions to specific sustainability problems in specific places.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Sustainability Science “
- ForewordSection I Managing the Earth's Life Support Systems: The Emergence of Sustainability Science and Transdisciplinarity
- From the Unity of Nature to Sustainability Science: Ideas and Practice
- Sustaining Sustainability: Creating a Systems Science in a Fragmented Academy and Polarized World
- A Landscape Approach for Sustainability Science
- It's OK to Talk about Sustainability
Section II Balancing Ecology and Economy: Natural Capital and Quality of Life
- The Value of Natural and Social Capital in Our Current Full World and in a Sustainable and Desirable Future
- Steps Towards Sustainability and Tools for Restoring Natural Capital: Etang de Berre (Southern France) Case Study
- Sustainability of Biodiversity under Global Changes, with Particular Reference to Biological Invasions
Section III From Science to Policy: Managing the Commons, Social Learning and Social Responsibility
- Post-Sustainability: the Emergence of the Social Sciences as the Hand-Maidens of Policy
- The Purpose and Politics of Ecosystem-Based Management
- Sustainable Coastal Margins: Challenges of Tempo and Mode for the Policy Domain
- Forest and Fishery Transitions to Sustainability
Session IV The Ecology of Cities
- Cities as Dissipative Structures: Global Change and the Increasing Vulnerability of Urban Civilization
- A Mathematical Description of Urban Metabolism
- Urbanization, Local Government and Planning for Sustainability
- Climate Change, Globalization, and the Double Exposure Challenge to Sustainability: Rolling the Dice in Coastal New Jersey
- Sustainability Trajectories for Urban Waters
Session V Restoring and Rehabilitating Ecosystems: Return from the Precipice
- Reversing Two Centuries of Ecosystem Degradation: Can Science Better Inform Policy & Practice?
- Changing Nature: Novel Ecosystems, Intervention, and Knowing When to Step Back
- Knocking on Doors: Boundary Objects in Ecological
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Conservation and Restoration
- Sustainability: More about the Toolmaker than the Tools
- Epilogue
- The Challenge of Sustainability: Lessons from an Evolutionary Perspective
- Index
- Sustainability: More about the Toolmaker than the Tools
- Epilogue
- The Challenge of Sustainability: Lessons from an Evolutionary Perspective
- Index
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Bibliographische Angaben
- 2014, 2012, XX, 444 Seiten, Masse: 15,5 x 23,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Michael P. Weinstein, R. Eugene Turner
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 149390051X
- ISBN-13: 9781493900510
Sprache:
Englisch
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