Social Sustainability, Past and Future: Undoing Unintended Consequences for the Earth's Survival

ISBN-13: 9781108498692 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 350 str.

Sander Van Der Leeuw

Opis

A novel, integrated approach to understanding long-term human history, viewing it as the long-term evolution of human information-processing. This title is also available as Open Access.

Recenzje

'… an unequivocally masterful and absolutely brilliant description of dynamically complex and correlated cultural milieus and environmental systems as a cautionary tale for the ages.' R. G. Mendoza, Choice

Spis treści

1. How this book came about, what it is, and what it is not; 2. Defining the challenge; 3. Science and society; 4. Transdisciplinary pro and contra; 5. The importance of a long-term perspective; 6. Looking forward into the future; 7. The complex (adaptive) systems approach; 8. Human socio-environmental coevolution; 9. Social systems as dissipative flow structures; 10. Solutions always cause problems; 11. Transitions in the organization of societies; 12. Novelty, invention, change; 13. The invention process and its implications for societal information processing; 14. Modeling socio-environmental transitions; 15. Rise of the West as a global flow structure; 16. Are we reaching a global societal tipping point?; 17. Not an ordinary tipping point; 18. Our fragmenting world; 19. Is there a way out?; 20. Green growth; 21. Conclusion.