Supply-side sustainability /
While environmentalists insist that lower rates of consumption of natural resources are essential for a sustainable future, many economists dismiss the notion that resource limits act to constrain modern, creative societies. The conflict between these views tinges political debate at all levels and...
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| Rangatū: | Complexity in ecological systems series.
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Rārangi ihirangi:
- Cover; Half title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1. The Nature of the Problem; A New Global System; Economics, Society, and Ecology; Comprehending Sustainability; Manage Systems, Not Outputs; Manage Contexts; Supply What Systems Need; Let the Ecological System Subsidize Management; Understand Problem Solving; Sustainability in a Social Context; Paying for Sustainability; Maintaining the Political Context; The Ecology of Sustainability; Driven Between Disciplines by Technology; Prediction in Large Systems; Standard Practice for Different Reasons.
- Social and Biogeophysical IntegrationI. Complexity, Problem Solving, and Social Sustainability; 2. Complexity and Social Sustainability: Framework; Monitoring, Predicting, and Problem Solving; Complexity and Problem Solving; Producing Resources; Resources, Intensification, and Sustainability; Producing Knowledge; Summary and Implications for Sustainability; 3. Complexity and Social Sustainability: Experience; Collapse of the Western Roman Empire; Understanding Roman Unsustainability; The Early Byzantine Recovery; Collapse of the Abbasid Caliphate; Development of Modern Europe.
- Consequences of European WarsImplications for Sustainability; Some Characteristics of Sustainability; II. A Hierarchical Approach to Ecological Sustainability; 4. The Criteria for Observation and Modeling; The Organism; Sustaining the Umwelt; Habits and Familiar Settings; Rare and Endangered Umwelts; Stress and Unmet Umwelts; The Human Umwelt and Sustainability of Other Species; Living Systems Theory; Minimal Viable Systems; Organisms as Fragile Systems; The Landscape; Historical Landscapes in Context; Implications of Landscapes in a Human Context; Policy Implications on Landscapes.
- Landscapes Cast the ProblemThe Population; Sustainable Populations; Sustainability in Aquatic Populations; Sustainability and Human Populations; Modern Conservation Biology; Hierarchical Structure in Populations: Metapopulations; The Community; Community as Opposed to Population; Forest Stand Simulators: Community-Population Hybrids; Dynamics of the General Community Model; Taking the Community Model Through Scale Changes; Implications for Sustainability; Conclusion; 5. Biomes and the Biosphere; The Biome Criterion; Biomes and Climate Change; Sustainability of Agricultural Systems as Biomes.
- Lack of Sustainability in PaleobiomesGlobal Ecology; 6. Ecosystems, Energy Flows, Evolution, and Emergence; Definition of Ecosystem; The Essential Dichotomy in Biology; The Duality of Evolution and Thermodynamics; A Primer on the Mechanics of Thermodynamic Emergence; The Thermodynamics of Ecosystems; Experiments on the Generative Function; Observations on Ecosystems and Sustainability; Evolution, Emergence, and Diminishing Returns; Implications for the Contemporary Period; Supply-Side Sustainability and Resource Management Scale; Conclusion; 7. Retrospect and Prospects.