Supply-Side Sustainability

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-231-10587-3
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 653 g

Reihe: Complexity in Ecological Systems

While environmentalists insist that lower rates of consumption of natural resources are essential for a sustainable future, many economists dismiss the notion that resource limits act to constrain modern, creative societies. The conflict between these views tinges political debate at all levels and hinders our ability to plan for the future.

Supply-Side Sustainability offers a fresh approach to this dilemma by integrating ecological and social science approaches in an interdisciplinary treatment of sustainability. Written by two ecologists and an anthropologist, this book discusses organisms, landscapes, populations, communities, biomes, the biosphere, ecosystems and energy flows, as well as patterns of sustainability and collapse in human societies, from hunter-gatherer groups to empires to today's industrial world. These diverse topics are integrated within a new framework that translates the authors' advances in hierarchy and complexity theory into a form useful to professionals in science, government, and business.

The result is a much-needed blueprint for a cost-effective management regime, one that makes problem-solving efforts themselves sustainable over time. The authors demonstrate that long-term, cost-effective resource management can be achieved by managing the contexts of productive systems, rather than by managing the commodities that natural systems produce.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allen, Timothy F. H.

Tainter, Joseph

Hoekstra, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Umweltsoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltsoziologie, Umweltpsychologie, Umweltethik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface1. The Nature of the ProblemPart I. Complexity, Problem Solving, and Social Sustainability2. Complexity and Social Sustainability: Framework3. Complexity and Social Sustainability: ExperiencePart II. A Hierarchical Approach to Ecological Sustainability4. The Criteria for Observation and Modeling5. Biomes and the Biosphere6. Ecosystems, Energy Flows, Evolution, and Emergence7. Retrospect and ProspectsReferencesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Allen, Timothy F. H.
Timothy F. H. Allen is Professor of Botany at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of A Hierarchical Concept of Ecosystems (Princeton UP, 1986), and a co-author of Ecology (Oxford UP, 1998) and our own Toward a Unified Ecology (2e 2015).

Timothy F. H. Allen is a professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Joseph Tainter is a project leader at the Rocky Mountain Research Station in the USDA Forest Service in Albuquerque. Thomas W. Hoekstra is director of the Inventory and Monitoring Institute of the National Resources Research Center of the USDA Forest Service.