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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... Physical Geography, Lund University, Sweden Femi Osidele, Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia, USA Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Swiss Federal Institute of Environmental Science & Technology, Switzerland Richard Park, Eco ...
... physical and human systems that demand analytical skills beyond those of a single discipline. Integrated assessment and modeling (IAM) is applied at the global level (e.g., climate change models) and at the local/regional level (e.g. ...
... physical environment has been recognised for many decades, the magnitude of the impact has grown rapidly since the 1950's. By the 1960's and 1970's, the magnitude of impacts was recognised as scientists, such as Forester, Meadows, and ...
... Physical, biological Latrobe River Basin, Australia Scoccimarro 1999 Hydrological, River Basin, Thailand et al. socio-economic, decision Van Waveren 1999 Physical, biological Water management, Netherlands Voinov et al. 1999 Physical ...
... physical word has constants". • "We build rational (objective) models to be viewed and evaluated by peers (scientists) and stakeholders (public, etc.)". In addition to concern over the challenge about values systems, concerns were also ...
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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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