Social sustainability, past and future : undoing unintended consequences for the earth's survival

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Social sustainability, past and future : undoing unintended consequences for the earth's survival

Sander Van der Leeuw

(New directions in sustainability and society)

Cambridge University Press, 2020

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 464-492) and index

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内容説明

In this book, Sander Van der Leeuw examines how the modern world has been caught in a socio-economic dynamic that has generated the conundrum of sustainability. Combining the methods of social science and complex systems science, he explores how western, developed nations have globalized their world view and how that view has led to the sustainability challenges we are now facing. Its central theme is the co-evolution of cognition, demography, social organization, technology and environmental impact. Beginning with the earliest human societies, Van der Leeuw links the distant past with the present in order to demonstrate how the information and communications technology revolution is undermining many of the institutional pillars on which contemporary societies have been constructed. An original view of social evolution as the history of human information-processing, his book shows how the past offers insight into the present, and can help us deal with the future. This title is also available as Open Access.

目次

  • 1. How this book came about, what it is, and what it is not
  • 2. Defining the challenge
  • 3. Science and society
  • 4. Transdisciplinary pro and contra
  • 5. The importance of a long-term perspective
  • 6. Looking forward into the future
  • 7. The complex (adaptive) systems approach
  • 8. Human socio-environmental coevolution
  • 9. Social systems as dissipative flow structures
  • 10. Solutions always cause problems
  • 11. Transitions in the organization of societies
  • 12. Novelty, invention, change
  • 13. The invention process and its implications for societal information processing
  • 14. Modeling socio-environmental transitions
  • 15. Rise of the West as a global flow structure
  • 16. Are we reaching a global societal tipping point?
  • 17. Not an ordinary tipping point
  • 18. Our fragmenting world
  • 19. Is there a way out?
  • 20. Green growth
  • 21. Conclusion.

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