Managing Complexity: Earth Systems and Strategies for the Future

ISBN-13: 9780367500443 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 282 str.

Walter R. Erdelen; Jacques G. Richardson

Opis

Managing Complexity: Earth Systems and Strategies for the Future introduces and explores systems and complexity in relation to key global and environmental challenges. These relate to but are not limited to water, biological diversity, worldwide climate change, trade and conflict, global migration and the quest for sustainable development.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: setting the scene  2. The Anthropocene and Planetary Boundaries: conditioners of sustainable development  3. Foresight and innovation: searching for the right future  4. Education: towards universal understanding  5. Science: the complexity of searching the truth  6. Industry, engineering, further complexity: steam engines and more  7. Philosophia moralis: systems stretched to the breaking point  8. Water: simple matter of special complexity  9. Biological diversity: bountiful Mother Nature  10. Global climate change: humanity's supreme challenge  11. Diplomacy and foreign trade: weaving the web of international intercourse  12. The military: risk management-plus, not perversity  13. Migration: when exit becomes exodus  14. Sustainable development: Homos sapiens' Holy Grail  15. Risks, new departures, global solutions: challenges of a complex frontier