Format:
1 online resource (542 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781466565128
,
9781466565135
Content:
Complex systems is a new field of science studying how parts of a system give rise to the collective behaviors of the system, and how the system interacts with its environment. This book examines the complex systems involved in environmental sustainability, and examines the technologies involved to help mitigate human impacts, such as renewable energy, desalination, carbon capture, recycling, et cetera It considers the relationships and balance between environmental engineering and science, economics, and human activity, with regard to sustainability
Note:
Front Cover -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Authors -- Chapter 1 Human Ecological Sustainability -- Chapter 2 Review of Complexity and Complex Systems -- Chapter 3 Multidimensional Challenges to Human Sustainability -- Chapter 4 Mitigations of Human Impacts through Technology -- Chapter 5 Sustainable Agriculture -- Chapter 6 Unconventional Foods: Insects, Plankton, Fungi, and In Vitro Meat -- Chapter 7 Complex Economic Systems and Sustainability -- Chapter 8 Application of Complex Systems Thinking to Solve Ecological Sustainability Problems -- Chapter 9 What Will Happen to Us? FAQs on Sustainability -- Glossary -- Bibliography and Recommended Reading -- Color Insert -- Back Cover
Additional Edition:
Print version Northrop, Robert B. Ecological Sustainability Milton : Taylor & Francis Group,c2013 ISBN 9781466565128
Language:
English
Keywords:
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