| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 522 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Sustainability.
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Sustainable development.
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Sustainability -- Simulation methods.
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Sustainable development -- Simulation methods.
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Biocomplexity.
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Social systems.
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Human ecology.
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Durabilité de l'environnement. |
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Développement durable. |
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Durabilité de l'environnement -- Méthodes de simulation. |
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Développement durable -- Méthodes de simulation. |
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Biocomplexité. |
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Systèmes sociaux. |
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Écologie humaine. |
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sustainable development. |
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human ecology. |
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Biocomplexity |
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Human ecology |
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Social systems |
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Sustainability |
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Sustainable development |
| Added Author |
Connor, Anne N.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Northrop, Robert B. Ecological sustainability. Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013 9781466565128 (DLC) 2012044966 (OCoLC)794041289 |
| ISBN |
9781466565135 (electronic bk.) |
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1466565136 (electronic bk.) |
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9781138077072 |
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1138077070 |
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9781299704145 (MyiLibrary) |
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129970414X |
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0429100396 |
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9780429100390 |
| Standard No. |
10.1201/b14905 doi |
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