Sustainability Unpacked : Food, Energy and Water for Resilient Environments and Societies

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910818175003321
• Autore: Vogt Kristiina A.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Routledge, Sept. 2010; Florence, : Taylor & Francis Group [distributor]
• ISBN: 1-280-87453-8; 9786613715845; 1-136-53061-4; 1-136-53060-6; 1-84977-665-2
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.72
• Soggetti: Environment; Environmental responsibility; Sustainable living; Anthropology; Social Sciences; Anthropogeography & Human Ecology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Sustainability UnpackedFood, Energy and Water for Resilient Environments and Societies; Copyright; Contents; Authors and Contributors; Preface; List of Figures and Tables; Part 1: From the Beginning; 1. Sustainability - Clues for Positive Societal and Ecosystem Change; Defining Sustainability; Why Sustainability Needs to be Unpacked; Decoding Our Current Perceptions of Sustainability and Is There a Right Model?; Large Datasets and Moving Beyond Irrational Human Choices; Using Human Development Ranking to Understand Large Datasets; 2. Learning From the PAST:Why Societies Collapsed or Survived; Why People Live Where They DoWhere is it easier for humans to live within their footprints?; Where is it difficult for humans to live within ; their footprints?; Industrialization Fuelled by Carbon; A history of how society became dependent on 'artificial' products made from fossil carbon; Agrarian societies are dependent on renewable carbon; The 'carbonization' of society and the importance of coal; Oil made our 'synthetic' world possible; The Norm:Transboundary Consumption of Someone Else's Resources; Human History: A Search for Food Security; Food and social status; Food preservation for food securityRestaurants and our perceptions of food security; A Long Human History of Poor Health; Accidental Reductions in Human Resource Uses; Part 2: Scientific Approach to Decoding Sustainability; 3. TODAY: Decoding Country Resource Stories; Indices and How they Characterize Sustainable Choices; Indices rank environmental/ecological metrics well; Human and resource capital disconnect; Indices and Advanced-Economy Countries; Indices and Emerging-Economy Countries; Indices and Growing-Economy Countries; Lessons Learnt From Indices; Part 3: The Real Country Stories; 4. Fossil Energy Endowments and ExternalitiesCO2 Emissions Link to Energy; CO2 emissions and total fossil fuel consumption; CO2 emissions and gasoline consumption; Societies and Fossil Energy Options; Diverse fossil energy portfolios the norm; Energy security after becoming a net importer of oil; Energy Production Is Water Demanding; 5. Forests - The Backbone and Circulatory System for Human Societies; Where do you Find Forests Today?; Energy Choices and Satisfying Human Survival Needs; Forests and Fossil Energies: Incompatible in a Conservation and Sustainable Development World?; CO2 Emissions, Land Use Changes and Forest Sequestration of CarbonLiquid Fuels from Forests to Mitigate CO2 Emissions; Environmental challenges to biofuels; Forest energy and sustainability from distributed energy production; Forest Uses have Negative Environmental Repercussions Elsewhere; 6. The Soil and Water Connection to Food: Adapt, Mitigate or Die; What Constrains Local Food Production?; Soil chemistry - sets the threshold for food production; Severely degraded lands and food production; Water Security and Soils; Part 4: Climate and Soils: Unavoidable Constraints to Solar Capital; 7. The FUTURE: Climate Change as a Global Driver Impacting Sustainability
• Sommario/riassunto: Annotation