Sustainability Science
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (850 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521184703 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 605 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Achieving some sort of sustainability will be THE focus of global societies in the 21st century. It sets a standard for the discipline and solidly educates the generation of students that will most directly have to deal with the challenges of creating a sustainable Earth system." - Sander van der Leeuw, Dean, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University"In this important new book Bert de Vries has adopted a systems approach to examining all the issues that collectively amount to the determinants of sustainability. Justice and how we would like a future world to look like is always present. To be successful, our leaders will need a perspective of centuries, the full breadth of scientific insights, system thinking skills, great cultural sensitivity, and an awareness of spiritual values. De Vries not only succeeds in this overwhelming task but spices up the text with multiple excursions into his
Deep, comprehensive, and multifacetic guide to sustainability This is a very comprehensive, well written and exhaustively researched book on the scientific basis of sustainability. The material is extremely well presented and content is superbly rich and deep. The book offers a very wide view where, besides the excellent mandatory chapters on system dynamics, epistemology, energy, history, agriculture, etc, it also offers a unique summary of each chapter from the point of view of four "worldviews", cleverly chosen models to represent the way a large portion. Chapter 6 draws on the cultural theory to put the scientific analysis in the context of human values and worldviews and to suppo Many people agree that sustainability science is a legitimate field of research, teaching, and practice, and that it is interdisciplinary and requires system thinking. Much less agreement exists regarding what body of knowledge and what analytical tools constitute it. The new book by Bert de Vries from Cambridge University Press is a grand effort to define what sustainability science is.The book has evolved from a course de Vries has taught for many years at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.. JIE GUO said Five Stars. Good book for study sustainability.
Since 1990 he has been a senior scientist at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL, formerly MNP and RIVM). de Vries is co-founder and member of the Institute for Energy and Environment (IVEM) at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands, where he received his Ph.D. Since 2003 he has also been a Professor of Global Change and Energy at Utrecht Univers
Stories and worldviews are used to connect the quantitative and the qualitative and to offer the reader an understanding of relevant trends and events in context. Sustainable development is becoming the guiding principle for the 21st century. Sustainability Science is an ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses in sustainable development and in environmental and resource science and policy.. It systematically surveys the key concepts, models and findings of the various scientific disciplines with respect to the major sustainability issues: energy, nature, agro-food and resource systems, and economic growth.