Sustainability science
Textbook surveys key issues of sustainability - energy, nature, agro-food, resources, economics - for advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses
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New York :
Cambridge University Press ,
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Table of Contents:
- 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