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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... political institutions, as well as academic disciplines, evolved at a time when natural resources and ecological services were vast relative to the human presence, and human impacts were relatively small and local in comparison. We have ...
... political and policy debates raging over international conventions such as those on the control of greenhouse gas emissions, and on biodiversity and NRM. This is applied science and international politics 6 G. Harris 1. Introduction 2 ...
... politics being played out at a grand scale. Take, for example, the attempts through ESM to model the possible surprises and feedback in global warming caused by the increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (Dowlatabadi, 1995) or ...
... political and economic masters to keep funding the whole enterprise? How do we do this in an environment where the technology is changing by the month, where there is total interpenetration between the information technology, the ...
... politicians, decisionmakers, and community partners who then use the findings in their decisions about future actions. The overall pattern is one of integrated modeling, integrated application, integrated communication, and integrated ...
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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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