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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... degradation, informational entropy, physical entropy, cycling, throughflow, and many more measures to describe what is becoming increasingly apparent as complementary descriptions of the spatial, temporal, and organizational complexity ...
... degradation). In fact, one finds that the closer one approaches a thermodynamic equilibrium the greater are the local reversibility and efficiency of energetic interactions. Very complex biochemical systems seem to operate at very ...
... degradation steps is constrained by the structure and mechanics of a holon. That is, how efficient can a system be with the constraint that it maintains itself and survives periodic catastrophes (within-and-across-scale negotiated ...
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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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