Allen / Tainter / Hoekstra Supply-Side Sustainability

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-50407-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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

Tainter, Joseph

Hoekstra, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. The Nature of the Problem
Part I. Complexity, Problem Solving, and Social Sustainability
2. Complexity and Social Sustainability: Framework
3. Complexity and Social Sustainability: Experience
Part II. A Hierarchical Approach to Ecological Sustainability
4. The Criteria for Observation and Modeling
5. Biomes and the Biosphere
6. Ecosystems, Energy Flows, Evolution, and Emergence
7. Retrospect and Prospects
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Contributor: Timothy F. H. Allen 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).