Sustainability Science The Emerging Paradigm and the Urban Environment /
A new paradigm for ‘use-inspired’ research, informed decision making and development of science-based policy is emerging at the very heart of the global sustainability transition. Sustainability science attempts to unravel the complexities of the coupled Human-Environment System and address the cor...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2012.
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Foreword
- Section 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 Conservation and Restoration
- Sustainability: More about the Toolmaker than the Tools
- Epilogue
- The Challenge of Sustainability: Lessons from an Evolutionary Perspective
- Index.
