LEADER 03854nam 2200673 450 001 9910812179503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-50407-1 024 7 $a10.7312/alle10586 035 $a(CKB)111056485384806 035 $a(EBL)952867 035 $a(OCoLC)818858199 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000253868 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11195529 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000253868 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10205105 035 $a(PQKB)10807203 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC952867 035 $a(DE-B1597)458587 035 $a(OCoLC)51491662 035 $a(OCoLC)979626317 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231504072 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL952867 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11086469 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL770706 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485384806 100 $a20150824h20032003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSupply-side sustainability /$fT. F. H. Allen, Joseph A. Tainter, Thomas W. Hoekstra 210 1$aNew York, [New York] :$cColumbia University Press,$d2003. 210 4$dİ2003 215 $a1 online resource (732 p.) 225 1 $aComplexity in Ecological Systems Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-10587-8 311 $a0-231-10586-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tPreface -- $t1. The Nature of the Problem -- $tI. COMPLEXITY, PROBLEM SOLVING, AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY -- $t2. Complexity and Social Sustainability: Framework -- $t3. Complexity and Social Sustainability: Experience -- $tII. A HIERARCHICAL APPROACH TO ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY -- $t4. The Criteria for Observation and Modeling -- $t5. Biomes and the Biosphere -- $t6. Ecosystems, Energy Flows, Evolution, and Emergence -- $t7. Retrospect and Prospects -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aWhile environmentalists insist that lower rates of consumption of natural resources are essential for a sustainable future, many economists dismiss the notion that resource limits act to constrain modern, creative societies. The conflict between these views tinges political debate at all levels and hinders our ability to plan for the future.Supply-Side Sustainability offers a fresh approach to this dilemma by integrating ecological and social science approaches in an interdisciplinary treatment of sustainability. Written by two ecologists and an anthropologist, this book discusses organisms, landscapes, populations, communities, biomes, the biosphere, ecosystems and energy flows, as well as patterns of sustainability and collapse in human societies, from hunter-gatherer groups to empires to today's industrial world. These diverse topics are integrated within a new framework that translates the authors' advances in hierarchy and complexity theory into a form useful to professionals in science, government, and business.The result is a much-needed blueprint for a cost-effective management regime, one that makes problem-solving efforts themselves sustainable over time. The authors demonstrate that long-term, cost-effective resource management can be achieved by managing the contexts of productive systems, rather than by managing the commodities that natural systems produce. 410 0$aComplexity in ecological systems series. 606 $aEcology 606 $aSustainable development 615 0$aEcology. 615 0$aSustainable development. 676 $a577 700 $aAllen T. F. H$01053826 702 $aTainter$b Joseph A. 702 $aHoekstra$b T. W. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812179503321 996 $aSupply-side sustainability$93973760 997 $aUNINA