Ecological sustainability understanding complex issues

• Main Author: Northrop, Robert B.
• Other Authors: Connor, Anne N.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, 2013.
• Subjects: Sustainability.; Sustainable development.; Sustainability > Simulation methods.; Sustainable development > Simulation methods.; Biocomplexity.; Social systems.; Human ecology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781466565135
• Physical Description: xviii, 522 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.).

Table of Contents:

• 1. Human ecological sustainability
• 2. Review of complexity and complex systems
• 3. Multidimensional challenges to human sustainability
• 4. Mitigations of human impacts through technology
• 5. Sustainable agriculture
• 6. Unconventional foods : insects, plankton, fungi and in vitro meat
• 7. Complex economic systems and sustainability
• 8. Application of complex systems thinking to solve ecological sustainability problems
• 9. What will happen to us? : FAQs on sustainability.