Sustainability Science
Sustainable development is becoming the guiding principle for the 21st century. This textbook - based on the author's course and rigorously class-tested by his students - provides an introduction into patterns of past and present (un)sustainable development and into the emergence of the notion...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Cambridge University Press
2013
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Add Tag | Summary: | Sustainable development is becoming the guiding principle for the 21st century. This textbook - based on the author's course and rigorously class-tested by his students - provides an introduction into patterns of past and present (un)sustainable development and into the emergence of the notion of sustainable development. It systematically surveys the key concepts, models and findings of the various scientific disciplines with respect to the major sustainability issues: energy, nature, agro-food and resource systems, and economic growth. System analysis and modelling is introduced and used as an integrating tool. Stories and worldviews are used to connect the quantitative and the qualitative and to offer the reader an understanding of relevant trends and events in context. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 590 pages illustrations 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 561-583) and index |
| ISBN: | 9781107005884 1107005884 (hbk.) 1107005884 |
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