| |
| |
| Preface | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Nature of the Problem | |
| |
| |
| A New Global System | |
| |
| |
| Economics, Society, and Ecology | |
| |
| |
| Comprehending Sustainability | |
| |
| |
| Manage Systems, Not Outputs | |
| |
| |
| Manage Contexts | |
| |
| |
| Supply What Systems Need | |
| |
| |
| Let the Ecological System Subsidize Management | |
| |
| |
| Understand Problem Solving | |
| |
| |
| Sustainability in a Social Context | |
| |
| |
| Paying for Sustainability | |
| |
| |
| Maintaining the Political Context | |
| |
| |
| The Ecology of Sustainability | |
| |
| |
| Driven Between Disciplines by Technology | |
| |
| |
| Prediction in Large Systems | |
| |
| |
| Standard Practice for Different Reasons | |
| |
| |
| Social and Biogeophysical Integration | |
| |
| |
| |
| Complexity, Problem Solving, and Social Sustainability | |
| |
| |
| |
| Complexity and Social Sustainability: Framework | |
| |
| |
| Monitoring, Predicting, and Problem Solving | |
| |
| |
| Complexity and Problem Solving | |
| |
| |
| Producing Resources | |
| |
| |
| Resources, Intensification, and Sustainability | |
| |
| |
| Producing Knowledge | |
| |
| |
| Summary and Implications for Sustainability | |
| |
| |
| |
| Complexity and Social Sustainability: Experience | |
| |
| |
| Collapse of the Western Roman Empire | |
| |
| |
| Understanding Roman Unsustainability | |
| |
| |
| The Early Byzantine Recovery | |
| |
| |
| Collapse of the Abbasid Caliphate | |
| |
| |
| Development of Modern Europe | |
| |
| |
| Consequences of European Wars | |
| |
| |
| Implications for Sustainability | |
| |
| |
| Some Characteristics of Sustainability | |
| |
| |
| |
| A Hierarchical Approach to Ecological Sustainability | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Criteria for Observation and Modeling | |
| |
| |
| The Organism | |
| |
| |
| Sustaining the Umwelt | |
| |
| |
| Habits and Familiar Settings | |
| |
| |
| Rare and Endangered Umwelts | |
| |
| |
| Stress and Unmet Umwelts | |
| |
| |
| The Human Umwelt and Sustainability of Other Species | |
| |
| |
| Living Systems Theory | |
| |
| |
| Minimal Viable Systems | |
| |
| |
| Organisms as Fragile Systems | |
| |
| |
| The Landscape | |
| |
| |
| Historical Landscapes in Context | |
| |
| |
| Implications of Landscapes in a Human Context | |
| |
| |
| Policy Implications on Landscapes | |
| |
| |
| Landscapes Cast the Problem | |
| |
| |
| The Population | |
| |
| |
| Sustainable Populations | |
| |
| |
| Sustainability in Aquatic Populations | |
| |
| |
| Sustainability and Human Populations | |
| |
| |
| Modern Conservation Biology | |
| |
| |
| Hierarchical Structure in Populations: Metapopulations | |
| |
| |
| The Community | |
| |
| |
| Community as Opposed to Population | |
| |
| |
| Forest Stand Simulators: Community-Population Hybrids | |
| |
| |
| Dynamics of the General Community Model | |
| |
| |
| Taking the Community Model Through Scale Changes | |
| |
| |
| Implications for Sustainability | |
| |
| |
| Conclusion | |
| |
| |
| |
| Biomes and the Biosphere | |
| |
| |
| The Biome Criterion | |
| |
| |
| Biomes and Climate Change | |
| |
| |
| Sustainability of Agricultural Systems as Biomes | |
| |
| |
| Lack of Sustainability in Paleobiomes | |
| |
| |
| Global Ecology | |
| |
| |
| |
| Ecosystems, Energy Flows, Evolution, and Emergence | |
| |
| |
| Definition of Ecosystem | |
| |
| |
| The Essential Dichotomy in Biology | |
| |
| |
| The Duality of Evolution and Thermodynamics | |
| |
| |
| A Primer on the Mechanics of Thermodynamic Emergence | |
| |
| |
| The Thermodynamics of Ecosystems | |
| |
| |
| Experiments on the Generative Function | |
| |
| |
| Observations on Ecosystems and Sustainability | |
| |
| |
| Evolution, Emergence, and Diminishing Returns | |
| |
| |
| Implications for the Contemporary Period | |
| |
| |
| Supply-Side Sustainability and Resource Management Scale | |
| |
| |
| Conclusion | |
| |
| |
| |
| Retrospect and Prospects | |
| |
| |
| Sustainability and Problem Solving | |
| |
| |
| Unsustainable Problem Solving in Natural Resource Management | |
| |
| |
| Sustainable Problem Solving: Managing Systems | |
| |
| |
| Technological Optimism and Sustainability | |
| |
| |
| Models of Sustainable and Unsustainable Futures | |
| |
| |
| Management and Basic Research | |
| |
| |
| Energy Subsidies | |
| |
| |
| Societal Demands | |
| |
| |
| Ecosystems, Complex Societies, and Self-reflective Science | |
| |
| |
| References | |
| |
| |
| Index | |