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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786870103321

Autore

Northrop Robert B.

Titolo

Ecological sustainability : understanding complex issues / / Robert B. Northrop, Anne N. Connor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, Fla. : , : CRC Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-429-10039-6

1-4665-6513-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (542 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ConnorAnne N

Disciplina

338.9/27

Soggetti

Sustainability

Sustainable development

Sustainability - Simulation methods

Sustainable development - Simulation methods

Biocomplexity

Social systems

Human ecology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Human Ecological 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 Solve Sustainability Problems -- What will happen to us? : FAQs on Sustainability -- Glossary.

Sommario/riassunto

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.