UID:
almahu_9949707690202882
Format:
1 online resource (198 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783031393112
Note:
Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I Laboratory Structure -- 1 Sustainability Complex Network -- Introduction -- The Small-World Complex Network -- The Sustainability Complex Network -- From a Small to Large Networks -- Regular Graph -- Random Graph -- From Unweighted to Weighted SCN -- Conclusions and Perspectives -- References -- Part II The Blue Planet and the Ocean Sustainable Economy -- 2 Routes to Ocean Sustainability and Blue Prosperity in a Changing World: Guiding Principles and Open Challenges -- Introduction -- Blue Economy -- Ecosystem Services -- Integrating Blue Economy and Ecosystem -- Economy for a Full World -- Sustainability -- Ocean Under Multiple Threats -- Managing the Last Commons -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Part III Food Security and the Health of the Planet and Its Inhabitants -- 3 Sustainability, Agricultural Production, Science and Technology -- References -- 4 Liver and Nutrition -- References -- Part IV Climate and Environmental Changes -- 5 Climate Modeling of the Anthropocene -- Introduction -- The Basic Structure of Today's CSMs -- The Process of Producing Twenty-First Century Climate Change Projections and the Assessment of Related Uncertainties -- The Need and Challenge of Including an Interactive Human Component in Climate Models -- References -- Part V The New Data Science for Sustainability and Human Ecology -- 6 Quantitative Human Ecology: Data, Models and Challenges for Sustainability -- Introduction -- Conceptual Models -- Data-Driven Computational Models: Network Science -- Machine Learning -- Challenges -- References -- 7 Computations for Sustainability -- Introduction -- Mathematics for Sustainability -- Real-Life Applications -- Enhancement of Computational Performance -- Conclusions -- References -- Part VI Energy Transition and Industrial Product Chains.
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8 Sustainability in the Energy System and in the Industrial System -- The Industrial System and the Energy System -- "Fuel and Engine" of all Human Activities -- A Brief Historical View -- Recent (R)evolutions -- Central Role of the Human Element in Sustainability -- Current Status of the Industrial System and the Energy System -- A Critical View on Current Data -- The Urgent Need for a Transition -- Implementing the Transition -- Measurement: Quantitative Indicators -- Education: Communicating the Industry-Energy Transition -- Key Enabling Technologies for the Transition -- Economics of the Transition -- Policy and Regulations -- Conclusions -- References -- Part VII Sustainability Frames, Social Equity and the Right to Sustainability -- 9 Framing Sustainability -- Sustainability in Frames -- Sustainability Frames: Very Weak, Weak, Strong, Very Strong -- The Very Weak Sustainability -- The Weak Sustainability -- The Strong Sustainability -- The Very Strong Sustainability -- In Summary: The Distinctive Elements of the Sustainability Frames -- References -- 10 Natural Parks and Sustainable Development: A Theoretical Study -- Introduction -- Natural Parks and Sustainable Development -- Park Supplying Goods: Searching for a Taxonomy -- Governing Collective Goods: The Natural Park as a Place-Based Institution -- Conclusions -- References -- 11 The 'Position' of Social Sciences in Sustainability Issue. The Emblematic Case of Energy Transition -- References -- 12 The Law of Sustainability -- Introduction -- The Legal Framework on Sustainability -- The UN Development Goals -- Climate and Corporations -- Enforcing Sustainable Obligations from Below -- Quantifying the Law? De-quantifying the SDGs? -- The Dark Side of Numbers -- What Law? -- What to Do? -- Part VIII Protection of the Earth Habitats with Space Tools.
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13 Protection of the Earth Habitats with Space Tools -- Space Weather -- Minor Bodies of the Solar System -- Space is Really Interdisciplinary -- The Laboratory for Quantitative Sustainability -- Reference -- Bibliography.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Fantoni, Stefano Quantitative Sustainability Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2024 ISBN 9783031393105
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
