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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... theory 3. About applications 4. About modeling 5. Conclusions References Chapter 5 Ecosystem Services, Their Use and the Role of Ecological Engineering: State of the Art A. Dakers Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Defining ecosystem services ...
... theory of cultural and biological co-evolution: A consistent theory of biological and cultural co-evolution needs to evolve and increase understanding of human's place in nature and the possibilities of designing a sustainable and ...
... theory, and thus prompt the insight of judging the trustworthiness of the model on such a basis, of whether the model is ill or well designed for its purpose (Beck and Chen, 2000). Evaluating IAMs, therefore, is likely to be less ...
... theory, chaos theory, artificial neural networks, and areas of artificial intelligence generally. One development worthy of mention is that of structurally dynamic models (Jorgensen, 1999a,b). These use goal functions to reflect changes ...
... theory to practice. J. Environ. Plan. Manag. 38(3):371—391. Morgan, M.G. and Dowlatabadi, H., 1996, Learning from integrated assessment of climate change. Clim. Chang. 34:337–368. Oreskes, N., 1998, Evaluation (not validation) of ...
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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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