Understanding and Solving Environmental Problems in the 21st Century: Toward a New, Integrated Hard Problem ScienceR. Costanza, S.E. Jorgensen Elsevier, 2002 M06 5 - 346 páginas The aim of this book is to encourage integration of the natural and social sciences with the policy and design-making community, and thereby develop a deeper understanding of complex environmental problems. Its fundamental themes are:
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... appropriate to apply at a larger scale. Different disciplines may focus on different scales and this creates challenges for the integration of modules from these different sources. The integration of different disciplines is required to ...
... appropriate environment and resource management policies. These results are effectively communicated to politicians, decisionmakers, and community partners who then use the findings in their decisions about future actions. The overall ...
... appropriate to the problem at hand (along the lines of what has been called "demand-side" modeling). The goal is not to end up with a model as a finished product (transferable to many like situations elsewhere), but to adapt it within ...
... appropriate for communication with the audience (scientific, policymaker, or general public). 12. Values in models The different values represented by multiple Ch. 2: The Potential for IAM to Solve Environmental Problems 33 11.
... appropriate indices for monitoring vitality and sustainability has evolved as the concept of "sustainable development" which has become prevalent in environmental policy dialogue (Harger and Meyer, 1996; Deville and Turpin, 1996 ...
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Chapter 4 Complex Adaptive Hierarchical Systems | 95 |
State of the Art | 101 |
Chapter 6 Ecosystem Services | 127 |
Chapter 9 Ecosystem Health and Human Health | 167 |
Healthy Planet Healthy Living | 189 |
Chapter 11 Quality of Life and the Distribution of Wealth and Resources | 221 |
Chapter 12 Quality of Life and the Distribution of Wealth and Resources | 259 |
Conclusions | 303 |
References | 307 |
Author Index | 309 |
Subject Index | 319 |
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