Sustainability science

Textbook surveys key issues of sustainability - energy, nature, agro-food, resources, economics - for advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vries, Bert de , 1948- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press , c2013
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245 1 0 |a Sustainability science   |c Bert J.M. de Vries 
260 |a New York :   |b Cambridge University Press ,   |c c2013 
300 |a xvii, 590 p. :   |b ill. (some col.) ;   |c 26 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 561-583) and index 
505 0 |a 1. Introduction -- 2. The systems dynamics perspective -- 3. In search of sustainability: past civilizations -- 4. The world in the past 300 years: the great acceleration -- 5. Sustainability: concerns, definitions, indicators -- 6. Quality of life: on values, knowledge and worldviews -- 7. Energy fundamentals -- 8. On knowledge and models -- 9. Land and nature -- 10. Human populations and human behaviour -- 11. Agro-food systems -- 12. Renewable resources: water, fish and forest -- 13. Non-renewable resources: the industrial economy -- 14. Towards a sustainable economy? -- 15. Outlook on the futures 
520 |a Textbook surveys key issues of sustainability - energy, nature, agro-food, resources, economics - for advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses 
650 0 |a Sustainable development   |x Research 
999 |a 1000159035   |b Book   |c OPEN SHELF (30 DAYS)   |e Gong Badak Campus