Sustainability science

Sustainability science

by De Vries, Bert J. M.

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Textbook surveys key issues of sustainability - energy, nature, agro-food, resources, economics - for advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Sustainability science / Bert J.M. de Vries.

Summary

Textbook surveys key issues of sustainability - energy, nature, agro-food, resources, economics - for advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2013.
  • Edition:1st ed

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (590 pages) : : illustrations, maps (some colour)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1139842331, 9781139842334, 9781107005884, 1107005884, 9780521184700, 0521184703, 9781283943512, 1283943514
  • oclc:ocn848702879
  • LC Classification:HC79.E5 V735 2012
  • Dewey Decimal:333.707

Table of Contents

Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Roots; 1.2 Sustainability Science; 1.3 Sustainable Development Is About Quality of Life; 1.4 Guidelines for the Reader; Appendix 1.1 United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development; 2 The System Dynamics Perspective; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The World Car System; 2.3 System Dynamics: The Basics; 2.3.1 What Is a System?; 2.3.2 Stocks and Flows; 2.3.3 Feedback Loops; 2.3.4 An Illustrative Simulation Experiment; 2.4 System Dynamics Modelling; 2.4.1 The Rules of the Game; 2.4.2 Archetypes; 2.4.3 An Example: Modelling Car and Public Transport Use.

2.5 Structure, Space and Time2.6 Summary Points; Appendix 2.1 Integral-Differential Calculus; 3 In Search of Sustainability: Past Civilisations; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Beginnings: Two Environmental Tales; 2 The Hohokam People in Arizona2; 3 Easter Island3; 3.3 Emerging Social Complexity: State Formation; 3.3.1 Early Mesopotamia: Urban Centres and Their Elites; 3.3.2 Egypt: The Nile and Its Rhythms; 3.3.3 South Asia: The Indus-Sarasvati Civilisation; 3.3.4 The Aegean and Mesoamerica: The Role of Ecological Diversity; 3.4 Empires; 8 The Roman Empire8.

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Subjects

Développement durable -- Recherche Sustainable development -- Research

Writers

De Vries, Bert J. M.

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