Articles liés à Sustainability: A Systems Approach
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Synopsis
The question of sustainability affects most areas of human activity. It is intrinsically complex and multi-disciplinary. Sustainable policies have to adapt to new knowledge and changing circumstances. Understanding sustainability and ways of achieving it have to involve an understanding of complex adaptive systems and general systems theory - a rapidly developing new branch of social studies. This book provides an introduction and explanation of this field, and shows its application in the social and economic management of sustainability. It is written for readers at an undergraduate level and sould be useful for a wide range of undergraduate courses.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
This volume offers a balanced, readable, and logical analysis of the problem of global sustainability. Providing an overview of ecosystem sustainability, the authors introduce the concept of complex adaptive systems, a new discipline that is transforming our understanding of the ecological and socioeconomic networks that shape our world.Bridging theory and practice, the authors link analysis to a program for change. They explain why the transition to a more sustainable way of life means abandoning the search for simple solutions and adopting a systems perspective in which problems and solutions are multidimensional, dynamic, and evolving. The authors argue that macroeconomic policy is the key to the transition and that an agenda for fundamental regulatory and fiscal reform must be combined with a new framework for decisionmaking.
Biographie de l'auteur
Anthony M.H. Clayton is head of research at the Institute for Policy Analysis and Development and environmental coordinator for the University of Edinburgh. Nicholas J. Radcliffe is convenor of the board of the Institute, visiting professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, and technical director of Quadstone Ltd. Anthony M.H. Clayton is head of research at the Institute for Policy Analysis and Development and environmental coordinator for the University of Edinburgh. Nicholas J. Radcliffe is convenor of the board of the Institute, visiting professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, and technical director of Quadstone Ltd.
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