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  title info:
    title: Environmental Systems Studies
    sub title: A Macroscope for Understanding and Operating Spaceship Earth
  name:
    name part: Imura, Hidefumi.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ja
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 151 p. 27 illus., 22 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The environmental field is deep and wide. In the flood of information, how can people understand the underlying causes of what they hear about the environment from newspapers and television? This book was originally published in Japanese, with the aim of providing basic information about the ideas and methods to see and understand the interconnection between nature and human activities from a systematic point of view. The author subsequently prepared an English version of the same material for use as a textbook for the Global Environmental Leaders Program at Nagoya University, where he taught many students from Asia and Europe. The book covers diverse environmental issues such as climatic change, biodiversity preservation, energy conservation, and resource recycling. Readers can learn common methods of analysis and thinking to identify the core essence of economic and ecological interdependence, to look at problems from an overarching perspective, and to consider countermeasures to be taken. .
  table of contents: 1. Seeing and Understanding Interactions between Nature and Humanity -- 2. Operating Our Spaceship Earth -- 3. Understanding the Global Climate System -- 4. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service: Indicators of the Global Environment -- 5. An Evolutionary View of the Environment -- 6. Transforming Our Society: Low Carbon, Coexistence with Nature, and Sound Material Cycle -- 7. The Environment as a Commons: How Should It Be Managed? -- 8. Economics of the Environment -- 9. Resources, Energy, and Environmental Load -- 10. Japan and an Asian Perspective.
  note: by Hidefumi Imura.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Physical geography
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Environmental economics
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Management
  subject:
    topic: Earth System Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Economics
  classification: GE300-350
  classification: 333.7
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9784431541264
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54126-4
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    record creation date: 130125
    record change date: 20151204163702.0
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