Understanding human ecology : a systems approach to sustainability
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Understanding human ecology : a systems approach to sustainability
（Earthscan from Routledge）
Routledge, 2015
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 offers 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 to policy-makers and practitioners across government, business and community.
Road-tested and refined over a decade of teaching and workshops, the authors have built a clear, inspiring and important framework for anyone approaching the management of complex problems and the transition to sustainability.
Table of Contents
Prologue: Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast Part I: The Challenge 1. Human Ecology: An Evolving Discipline 2. Water Conflicts in the Snowy Mountains Part II: Building Shared Understanding 3. Thinking Together 4. System Dynamics I: Stocks and Flows 5. System Dynamics II: Feedback 6. Systems and Sustainability 7. Towards a Shared Theoretical Framework Part III: Living in the Anthropocene 8. Paradigms: Ideas that Change the World 9. Living Well in the Anthropocene 10. Consumers and Global Food Systems 11. Stewards of a Full Earth
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