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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... approach to a reduced role for government regulation in the market place - and an attempt to price ecosystem services into the true cost of production, so that, for example, users are required to pay for both the cost of supplying water ...
... approaches. In combination this is a whole new enterprise played out at regional and global scales. There is a need ... approach. A little humility goes a long way. So just how do we integrate across disciplines and synthesize knowledge ...
... approach possible. Around the world a number of new approaches to modeling and synthesis are being discussed, agent modeling, goal functions and systems simulation, the properties of CAS, and so on. All are brave attempts to seek more ...
... approaches to this, using "tolerable windows" and knock out models (Schellnhuber, 1999) and other ways to constrain the scenarios, but nonetheless, this is dangerous territory. Here be monsters! Devotees of the BBC "Yes, Minister" TV ...
... approaches. The chapter discusses various definitions of IAM and identifies five different types of integration that are needed for the effective solution of environmental problems. The future is then depicted in the form of two brief ...
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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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