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

• Autore: Northrop Robert B.
• Pubblicazione: Boca Raton, Fla. : , : CRC Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (542 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.9/27
• Soggetto topico: Sustainability; Sustainable development; Sustainability - Simulation methods; Sustainable development - Simulation methods; Biocomplexity; Social systems; Human ecology
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ConnorAnne N
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ecological sustainability
• ISBN: 0-429-10039-6; 1-4665-6513-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463214803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II