Keywords:
Complexity (Philosophy).
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Managing Complexity: Earth Systems and Strategies for the Future introduces and explores systems and complexity in relation to key global and environmental challenges. These relate to but are not limited to water, biological diversity, worldwide climate change, trade and conflict, global migration and the quest for sustainable development.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (283 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780429816956
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Sustainability Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=5580138
DDC:
363.7/05612
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations and acronyms -- 1 Introduction: setting the scene -- 2 The Anthropocene and planetary boundaries: conditioners of sustainable development -- 3 Foresight and innovation: searching for the right future -- 4 Education: towards universal understanding -- 5 Science: the complexity of searching the truth -- 6 Industry, engineering, further complexity: steam engines and more -- 7 Philosophia moralis: systems stretched to the breaking point -- 8 Water: simple matter of special complexity -- 9 Biological diversity: bountiful Mother Nature -- 10 Global climate change: humanity's supreme challenge -- 11 Diplomacy and foreign trade: weaving the web of international intercourse -- 12 The military: risk management-plus, not perversity -- 13 Migration: when exit becomes exodus -- 14 Sustainable development: Homo sapiens' Holy Grail -- 15 Risks, new departures, global solutions: challenges of a complex frontier -- Further reading -- Index.
