Sustainability science [electronic resource] : the emerging paradigm and the urban environment / Michael P. Weinstein, R. Eugene Turner, editors.
A new paradigm for 'use-inspired' research, informed decision making and development of science-based policy is emerging at the very heart of the global sustainability transition.¡ Sustainability science attempts to unravel the complexities of the coupled Human-Environment System and addre...
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Managing the Earth's Life Support Systems: The Emergence of Sustainability Science and Transdisciplinarity
- From the Unity of Nature to Sustainability Science: Ideas and Practice / Robert W. Kates
- Sustaining Sustainability: Creating a Systems Science in a Fragmented Academy and Polarized World / John D. Sterman
- A Landscape Approach for Sustainability Science / Jianguo (Jingle) Wu
- It's OK to Talk About Sustainability / Alan D. Hecht
- Part 2. Balancing Ecology and Economy: Natural Capital and Quality of Life
- The Value of Natural and Social Capital in Our Current Full World and in a Sustainable and Desirable Future / Robert Costanza
- Steps Towards Sustainability and Tools for Restoring Natural Capital: Etang de Berre (Southern France) Case Study / James Aronson, Florian Claeys, Vanja Westerberg, Philippe Picon and Guillaume Bernard, et al.
- Sustainability of Biodiversity Under Global Changes, with Particular Reference to Biological Invasions / Daniel Simberloff
- Part 3. From Science to Policy: Managing the Commons, Social Learning and Social Responsibility
- "Post-sustainability": The Emergence of the Social Sciences as the Hand-Maidens of Policy / Michael R. Redclift
- The Purpose and Politics of Ecosystem-Based Management / Judith A. Layzer
- Sustainable Coastal Margins: Challenges of Tempo and Mode for the Policy Domain / Ronald C. Baird
- Fishery and Forest Transitions to Sustainability: A Comparative Analysis / Bonnie J. McCay and Thomas K. Rudel.
- Part 4. The Ecology of Cities
- Cities as Dissipative Structures: Global Change and the Vulnerability of Urban Civilization / William E. Rees
- A Mathematical Description of Urban Metabolism / Christopher Kennedy
- Urbanization, Local Government, and Planning for Sustainability / Robert W. Taylor
- Climate Change, Globalization, and the Double Exposure Challenge to Sustainability: Rolling the Dice in Coastal New Jersey / Robin Leichenko
- Sustainability Trajectories for Urban Waters / Richard Burroughs
- Part 5. Restoring and Rehabilitating Ecosystems: Return from the Precipice
- Reversing Two Centuries of Wetland Degradation: Can Science Better Inform Policy and Practice? / Michael P. Weinstein, Steven Y. Litvin and Michael G. Frisk
- Changing Nature: Novel Ecosystems, Intervention, and Knowing When to Step Back / Eric Higgs
- Knocking on Doors: Boundary Objects in Ecological Conservation and Restoration / Jac. A.A. Swart and Henny J. van der Windt
- Sustainability: More About the Toolmaker than the Tools / R. Eugene Turner
- Epilogue: The Challenge of Sustainability: Lessons from an Evolutionary Perspective / Simon Levin.