Sustainability Science The Emerging Paradigm and the Urban Environment /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Weinstein, Michael P. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Turner, R. Eugene (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Θέματα: Urban ecology (Biology).; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Sustainable development.; Environmental economics.; Economics.; Environmental Economics.; Sustainable Development.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Urban Ecology.

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...

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.