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  title info:
    title: Systems Analysis Approach for Complex Global Challenges
  name:
    name part: Mensah, Priscilla.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
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  name:
    name part: Katerere, David.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: Hachigonta, Sepo.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: Roodt, Andreas.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXI, 332 p. 39 illus., 30 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book, which contains a collection of review articles as well as focus on evidence-based policy making, will serve as a valuable resource not just for all postgraduate students conducting research using systems analysis thinking but also for policy makers. To our knowledge, a book of this nature which also has a strong African focus is currently not available. The book examines environmental and socio-economic risks with the aim of providing an analytical foundation for the management and governance of natural resources, disasters, addressing climate change, and easing the technological and ecological transitions to sustainability. It provides scientific and strategic analysis to better understand the dynamics of future energy transitions, their main driving forces, enabling factors, barriers, as well as their consequences for the social, economic and environmental dimensions of human wellbeing. Science-based policy advice is achieved through an integrated assessment and modeling of how to simultaneously address the major energy policy challenges in the areas of environment (climate change and air pollution), energy poverty (or access to affordable and clean energy for the poor), energy security and reliability. It also aims to improve our understanding of ecosystems and their management in today's changing world-in particular, the current state of ecosystems, and their ecological thresholds and buffering capacities. It provides support for policy makers in developing rational, realistic and science-based regional, national and global strategies for the production of fuel, food and fibre that sustain ecosystem services and safeguard food security. Finally, it addresses the human development dimension of global change based on comprehensive studies on the changing size and composition of human populations around the world by analyzing both their impacts and the differential vulnerabilities by age, gender and level of education.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Risk and Governance -- Energy and Climate Systems -- Ecosystems, Water and Food -- Population, Health and Aging.
  note: edited by Priscilla Mensah, David Katerere, Sepo Hachigonta, Andreas Roodt.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering economics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering economy
  subject:
    topic: Physical geography
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Computer simulation
  subject:
    topic: Renewable energy resources
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing
  subject:
    topic: Earth System Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts
  subject:
    topic: Simulation and Modeling
  subject:
    topic: Renewable and Green Energy
  subject:
    topic: Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management
  classification: TA177.4-185
  classification: 658.5
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319714868
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71486-8
  record info:
    record creation date: 180409
    record change date: 20191220130825.0
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