Supply-side sustainability
This is the first book to integrate ecological and social science in an interdisciplinary treatment of sustainability. The book explains sustainability and collapse in human societies ranging from hunter-gatherers to empires and today's industrial world.
Print Book, English, cop. 2003
Colombia University Press, New York, cop. 2003
xv, 459 p.
9780231105873, 0231105878
1006614086
Preface 1. The Nature of the Problem Part I. Complexity, Problem Solving, and Social Sustainability 2. Complexity and Social Sustainability: Framework 3. Complexity and Social Sustainability: Experience Part II. A Hierarchical Approach to Ecological Sustainability 4. The Criteria for Observation and Modeling 5. Biomes and the Biosphere 6. Ecosystems, Energy Flows, Evolution, and Emergence 7. Retrospect and Prospects References Index