Call number:
PIK B 160-20-94002
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
xvi, 516 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:
9781108498692
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9781108724425
Series Statement:
New Directions in sustainability and society
Language:
English
Note:
Contents: 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.
Location:
A 18 - must be ordered
Branch Library:
PIK Library
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