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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Elsevier,
�2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- Note continued: The State of the World
- Approaching the World
- Changing the World
- Conclusion.