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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... forms of dynamic and agent-based modeling. The challenge lies in finding solutions to the problems of communication between a wide range of disciplines and communities and in building models which incorporate a range of data sets and ...
... forms of information technology) to assemble, integrate, and synthesize data from a wide range of sources, at a wide range of scales. These data are then combined with economic and other models to attempt to assess the interactions and ...
... form of rural land use with high impact on the overall rural economy, on ecosystem services, and on conservation. A similar problem is found in Australia where agriculture is largely the cause of dryland salinity but is only one part of ...
... form of two brief scenarios: one optimistic and one pessimistic. The evolution of IAM and its current state are then briefly reviewed and examples of recent case studies are identified. Integrated assessment is introduced as a means to ...
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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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