Understanding Human Ecology A Systems Approach to Sustainability

Name: Understanding Human Ecology A Systems Approach to Sustainability
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ISBN: 9781849713832

ISBN-10: 1849713839

ISBN-13: 9781849713832

Edition: 2015

Authors: Robert Dyball, Barry Newell

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We are facing hugely complex challenges – from climate change to world poverty, our problems are part of an inter-related web of social and natural systems. Human ecology promises an approach to these complex challenges, a way to understand these problems holistically and to start to manage them more effectively. This book is the first to offer a coherent conceptual framework for Human Ecology – a clear approach for understanding the many systems we are part of and for how we frame and understand the problems we face. Blending natural, social and cognitive sciences with dynamical systems theory, the authors offer systems approaches that are accessible to all, from the undergraduate student…

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List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/5/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 214
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Introduction: Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast



The Challenge



Human Ecology: An Evolving Discipline



Water Conflicts in the Snowy Mountains



Having New Eyes



Thinking Together



Stocks and Flows



Feedback



Towards a Shared Theoretical Framework



Living in the Anthropocene



Paradigms: Ideas that Change the World



Global Food



Planetary Boundaries



Stewards of a Full Earth