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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... pattern of economic activity: gross national product 2.3. Sustainable economic income 2.4. Measuring economic welfare 189 189 190 193 193 194 196 197 197 198 199 202 205 205 206 206 207 207 208 213 217 217 3. 4. 5. 6. 2.5. Assessing ...
... pattern of systems behavior that we observe emerges from the underlying pandemonium (Harris, 1999). The question of debate is at what level can we represent reality, at what level can we model and predict with confidence? If the ...
... pattern is one of integrated modeling, integrated application, integrated communication, and integrated decisionmaking. The new underpinning to this integrated approach is an integrated scientific education where the insights and skills ...
... pattern, major environmental catastrophes occur before society moves away from the dominant economic growth paradigm. Crisis-based reactions prove insufficient to address the complex problems that arise. In some cases, the species ...
... patterns, yet despite the prescriptions offered, they failed to provide tools to decisionmakers who operated at the local or national level. As a result, the findings of these early models were largely ignored. Population and ...
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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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