Sustainability Science

Name: Sustainability Science
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ISBN: 9780521184700

ISBN-10: 0521184703

ISBN-13: 9780521184700

Edition: 2012

Authors: Bert J. M. de Vries

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Sustainable development is becoming the guiding principle for the 21st century. This textbook - based on the author's course and rigorously class-tested by his students - provides an introduction into patterns of past and present (un)sustainable development and into the emergence of the notion of sustainable development. It systematically surveys the key concepts, models and findings of the various scientific disciplines with respect to the major sustainability issues: energy, nature, agro-food and resource systems, and economic growth. System analysis and modelling is introduced and used as an integrating tool. Stories and worldviews are used to connect the quantitative and the qualitative…

Book details

List price: $92.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/17/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 605
Size: 7.01" wide x 9.96" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 2.750
Language: English




Introduction



The systems dynamics perspective



In search of sustainability: past civilizations



The world in the past 300 years: the Great Acceleration



Sustainability: concerns and definitions



Quality of life: on values, knowledge and worldviews



Energy fundamentals



On knowledge and models



Ecosystems



Human populations and human behaviour



Agro-food systems



Renewable resources: water, fish and forest



Non-renewable resources: the industrial economy



Towards a sustainable economy



Outlook on the futures