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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... mean the "sense of the meeting". Every individual at the meeting will probably not agree with every word in the following pages, but the vast majority will agree with the vast majority of what is said. In that sense, this book ...
... means that the whole is significantly different from the simple sum of the parts, and scaling (the transfer of understanding across spatial, temporal, and complexity scales) is a core problem. Incorporating both biophysical and social ...
... means of synthesis and delivery - and the finance gurus have decided to outsource the whole thing!? This is not rocket science; it is much more difficult! There is a need for integration between scientists of differing disciplines ...
... means that we are predicting out into unknown territory, environmentally, economically, and socially. There are approaches to this, using "tolerable windows" and knock out models (Schellnhuber, 1999) and other ways to constrain the ...
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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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