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Sustainability science : managing risk and resilience for sustainable development /

A new, holistic transdisciplinary endeavour born in the 21st century, Sustainability Science: Managing Risk and Resilience for Sustainable Development aims to provide conceptual and practical approaches to sustainable development that help us to grasp and address uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Becker, Per
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Elsevier, �2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Machine generated contents note: 1.Introducing the Book -- Introduction -- Purpose of the Book -- Demarcation of the Book -- Structure of the Book -- Conclusion -- I.THE STATE OF THE WORLD -- 2.Our Past Defining Our Present -- Introduction -- Conquering Our Dynamic World -- Social Change Over Millennia -- The Invention of Risk -- Conclusion -- 3.Our Sustainability Challenges -- Introduction -- Our Challenges as Discussed on World Conferences -- Our Boundaries for Sustainability -- Conclusion -- 4.Our Disturbances, Disruptions and Disasters in a Dynamic World -- Introduction -- Our Symptomatic Events -- Our Processes of Change -- Conclusion -- II.APPROACHING THE WORLD -- 5.Conceptual Frames for Risk, Resilience and Sustainable Development -- Introduction -- Philosophical Assumptions about Our World -- Development, Sustainability and Risk -- Managing Risk for Sustainable Development -- The Concept of Resilience -- Conclusion -- 6.Resilience -- From Panacean to Pragmatic 
505 0 |a Note continued: Introduction -- Inherent Restrictions for Measuring Resilience -- Operationalizing Resilience -- Challenges for Developing Resilience -- Linking Resilience to Other Frameworks -- Conclusion -- 7.The World as Human -- Environment Systems -- Introduction -- Why Human -- Environment Systems? -- Systems Approaches and Concepts -- Constructing Human -- Environment Systems -- Conclusion -- III.CHANGING THE WORLD -- 8.Science and Change -- Introduction -- The Sciences of the Complemental -- Two Scientific Processes -- Reliability, Validity and Workability -- Limitations of Science for Change -- Conclusion -- 9.Developing Capacities for Resilience -- Introduction -- Four Levels of Capacity -- Capacity Development for Resilience -- Central "Ships" in Capacity Development -- Conclusion -- 10.Social Change for a Resilient Society -- Introduction -- Describing Social Change -- Prescribing Social Change -- Conclusion -- 11.Concluding Remarks -- Introduction 
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