1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463214803321

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

Electronic books.

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001992929707536

Titolo

Giovani & integrazione sociale : analisi delle condizioni di vita dei 15-24enni in provincia di Bolzano / a cura di Nadio Delai

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : F. Angeli, 2006

ISBN

8846479718

Descrizione fisica

221 p. ; 23 cm.

Collana

Collana di sociologia ; 545

Altri autori (Persone)

Delai, Nadio

Disciplina

305

Soggetti

Giovani

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

In cop.: Unione europea, Fondo sociale europeo; Ministero del lavoro e della previdenza sociale ...

In 4. di cop.: Gong; Kantea; Assoimprenditori Alto Adige ...

Contiene appendice (p. 111-221).