Future Sustainable Ecosystems: Complexity, Risk, and Uncertainty

ISBN-13: 9781032242422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 410 str.

Nathaniel K. Newlands

Opis

Future Sustainable Ecosystems: Complexity, Risk, Uncertainty provides an interdisciplinary, integrative overview of environmental problem-solving using statistics. It shows how statistics can be used to solve diverse environmental and socio-economic problems involving food, water, energy scarcity, and climate change risks.

Spis treści

Sustaining Our Ecosystems

Risk and Our Sustainable Future

Building Adaptive Capacity and Opportunity

Sustainability Assessment Frameworks, Metrics, Indicators

A Planet Under Pressure

The Rise of Anthromes

Stressed Ecosystems

Pertubed Cycles

Harmful Emissions

Depletion of Finite Resources

Crop Yield Gaps, Food Losses and Wastes

Future Sustainable Development Pathways

Modelling Complex, Adaptive Systems

Systems Theory and Consilience

Complex, Adaptive Systems (CAS)

Alternative Approaches, Models, Uses

Real-World Application of Integrated Methods

Perspective

Ecosystem Observation, Experimentation and Modelling

Geospatial Intelligence and Planning

Integrating Causality

Statistical Attributes of Integrated Risk

Stochastic Sustainability

Cumulative Impacts and Sensitive Trade-offs

Future Outlook

Perspective

Transformation Paths and Transition Dynamics

Causality and Forecasting

Adaptive Science, Policy and Institutions

Public Good Science

Super-Intelligent, Sustainability Tools

Acronyms

Glossary

Author Index

Subject Index

Bibliography

O autorze

Nathaniel K Newlands