ISBN:
9780415695770
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 350 S.
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in ecological economics 26
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in ecological economics
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Wells, Jennifer Complexity and sustainability
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Wells, Jennifer Complexity and sustainability
DDC:
003
Keywords:
Complexity (Philosophy)
;
Environmentalism
;
Biotic communities
;
Social systems
;
System theory
;
Complex organizations
;
Sustainability
;
Sammelwerk
;
Komplexitätstheorie
;
Komplexes System
;
Interdisziplinarität
;
Komplexes System
;
Nachhaltigkeit
;
Umweltschutz
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- Elucidating complexity theories -- Complexity in the natural sciences -- Complexity in social theory -- Towards transdisciplinarity -- Complexity in philosophy: complexification and the limits to knowledge -- Complexity in ethics -- Earth in the anthropocene -- Complexity and climate change -- American dreams, ecological nightmares and new visions -- Complexity and sustainability: wicked problems, gordian knots and synergistic solutions -- Conclusion.
Note:
Enth. 12 Beitr
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