Ecological sustainability : understanding complex issues

Author(s)

• Northrop, Robert B.
• Connor, Anne N

Bibliographic Information

Ecological sustainability : understanding complex issues

Robert B. Northrop, Anne N. Connor

CRC Press, c2013

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 457-514) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Complex Systems is a new field of science studying how parts of a system give rise to the collective behaviors of the system, and how the system interacts with its environment. This book examines the complex systems involved in environmental sustainability, and examines the technologies involved to help mitigate human impacts, such as renewable energy, desalination, carbon capture, recycling, etc. It considers the relationships and balance between environmental engineering and science, economics, and human activity, with regard to sustainability.

Table of Contents

Human Sustainability. Review of Complexity and Complex Systems. Multidimensional Challenges to Human Sustainability. Mitigations of Human Impacts Through Technology. Sustainable Agriculture. Unconventional Foods: Insects, Plankton, Fungi and In Vitro Meat. Complex Economic Systems and Sustainability. Application of Complex Systems Thinking to Sustainability Problems. What Will Happen to Us?: FAQs on Sustainability.

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Details

• NCID: BB14147154
• ISBN:
  • 9781466565128
• LCCN: 2012044966
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Boca Raton
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 522 p., [8] p. of plates
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GF50
  • DC23 : 338.9/27
  • DC : 333.7
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Sustainability
  • LCSH : Sustainable development
  • LCSH : Sustainability -- Simulation methods
  • LCSH : Sustainable development -- Simulation methods
  • LCSH : Biocomplexity
  • LCSH : Social systems
  • LCSH : Human ecology