Complexity and Sustainability

By:

Jennifer Wells

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Hardback

Series:

Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

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Complexity and Sustainability analyzes two of the most fascinating and compelling areas of modern social science research. First, the book elucidates complexity theories as a clearly coherent, powerful, transdisciplinary ensemble, including advances in the natural sciences, but focusing much more broadly on major research throughout the social sciences and philosophy. Second, it shows how this complexity framework advances sustainability. The rationale is that a transdisciplinary exposition reveals the deep and broad implications of complexity theories as a perspective on our times in multiple areas of human lives and policy. This includes particular complexity principles, such as networks, feedbacks, nested hierarchies, emergence and self-organization, but also the implications that flow from complex dynamic systems. This book focuses on applications to climate change science and ethics as a framework for various other global crises -- resource depletion, famine, extinctions, financial and pollution, providing a framework to help articulate solutions integrating social, ecological, economic and technological realms.

Author Biography:

Jennifer Wells is Assistant Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, USA

Release date Australia

August 13th, 2012

Author

Jennifer Wells

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

22 Tables, black and white

Pages

354

Series

Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

Dimensions

156x234x28

ISBN-13

9780415695770

Product ID

18248559

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