Urban Galapagos Transition to Sustainability in Complex Adaptive Systems /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Kvan, Thomas (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Karakiewicz, Justyna (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands,
• Θέματα: Sustainable development.; Urban geography.; Urban ecology (Biology).; Ecosystems.; Nature conservation.; Sustainable Development.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Urban Ecology.; Nature Conservation.

This book addresses the future of urbanisation on the Galapagos Islands from a systems, governance and design perspective with the competing parameters of liveability, economic and ecological, using the Galapagos as a laboratory for the theoretical and postulative understanding of evolving settlemen...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1.Complexity and consequence in coupled natural urban systems
• Section 1.The Galapagos as a living laboratory
• 2.The Galapagos Urban Context
• 3.Understanding Coupled Urban-Natural Dynamics as the Key to Sustainability: The Example of the Galapagos
• 4.Scales and Transformative Change: Transitions in the Galápagos
• Section 2.Socio-ecological models
• 5.Demographics of Change: Modelling the Transition of Fishers to Tourism in the Galapagos Islands
• 6.Socio ecological systems and the management of the natural resources in the Galapagos
• Section 3.Models of change
• 7.A Model-Based Approach to Study the Tourism Sustainability in an Island Environment: The Case of Galapagos Islands
• 8.Towards Urban Self-Sufficiency in the Galapagos Islands
• 9.Avoiding the colour grey: parametrising CAS to incorporate reactive scripting
• 10.Reflections.