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Author Northrop, Robert B

Title Ecological sustainability : understanding complex issues / Robert B. Northrop and Anne N. Connor
Published Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 522 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Human Ecological Sustainability -- Review of Complexity and Complex Systems -- Multidimensional Challenges to Human Sustainability -- Mitigations of Human Impacts Through Technology -- Sustainable Agriculture -- Unconventional Foods : Insects, Plankton, Fungi and in vitro Meat -- Complex Economic Systems and Sustainability -- Application of Complex Systems Thinking to Solve Sustainability Problems -- What will happen to us? : FAQs on Sustainability -- Glossary
Summary Complex Systems is a new field of science studying how parts of a system give rise to the collective behaviors of the system, and how the system interacts with its environment. This book examines the complex systems involved in environmental sustainability, and examines the technologies involved to help mitigate human impacts, such as renewable energy, desalination, carbon capture, recycling, etc. It considers the relationships and balance between environmental engineering and science, economics, and human activity, with regard to sustainability
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Sustainability.
Sustainable development.
Sustainability -- Simulation methods
Sustainable development -- Simulation methods
Biocomplexity.
Social systems.
Human ecology.
sustainable development.
human ecology.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Sustainable Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics.
Biocomplexity
Human ecology
Social systems
Sustainability
Sustainable development
Form Electronic book
Author Connor, Anne N
LC no. 2012044966
ISBN 9781466565135
1466565136
9781138077072
1138077070
9781299704145
129970414X
0429100396
9780429100390