La 4e de couverture indique : "Il y a 70 000 ans, Homo sapiens sortait d'Afrique pour coloniser le monde. Il y a 6000 ans, il fondait les premières villes. Aujourd'hui, à l'ère des réseaux de villes, il crée dés réglons métropolitaines de plus en plus étendues et complexes. De l…
In this book, Sander Van der Leeuw examines how the modern world has been caught in a socio-economic dynamic that has generated the conundrum of sustainability. Combining the methods of social science and complex systems science, he explores how western, developed nations have g…
For a professional, educated non-academic audience, this book asks how our societies were caught in a socio-economic dynamic causing the sustainability conundrum. It develops an original view of social evolution as the history of human information-processing, studying the past t…