Bert J M de Vries: Sustainability Science

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"Fully updated, this second edition provides a class-tested system analysis approach to sustainability for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. The latest scientific data and insights are integrated into a broad transdisciplinary framework. Readers explore sustainability issues through the lenses of cultural and methodological pluralism"--

Über den Autor

Bert J. M. de Vries is co-founder of the Institute for Energy and Environment (IVEM) at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, where he received his Ph.D. on sustainable resource use. Since 1990, he has been a senior scientist at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL, formerly MNP and RIVM). He has been actively involved in Integrated Assessment (IA) and other modelling and scenario construction and shared in the Nobel Prize awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007. From 2003 to 2013, he has been Professor of Global Change and Energy at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His research expertise and publications are in resource and energy analysis, modelling and policy; climate and global change modelling and complex systems modelling; philosophy and ethics of sustainable development in a worldview framework; and modelling the financial system. He has co-edited several books, including Perspectives on Global Change: The TARGETS Approach (Cambridge University Press, 1997).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword; Preface; List of acronyms and abbreviations; List of units; Part I. Setting the Stage: 1. Sustainable development: a personal and societal aspiration; 2. Sustainable science: context and content; Part II. The State We're In and How We Got There: 3. Early states and civilisations; 4. Industrialisation: the great acceleration; 5. Modernity: the idea of progress; Part III. Engagement through Worldviews: 6. The worldview framework; 7. Worldviews: values, beliefs, ethics; Part IV. Understanding Sustainable Development: 8. Understanding, modelling, managing complexity; 9. Modelling sustainable development; Part V. Sustainability Themes: 10. Concepts, methods and indicators; 11. Population: humans and their habitat; 12. Pillars of development: health, education and mobility; 13. Nature: the life-support system; 14. Renewable resources: fisheries and forests; 15. Land and agro-food systems; 16. Water: the precious resource; 17. Energy: to a carbon-free supply; 18. Materials: towards a circular economy; 19. The economy; Part VI. Closure: 20. Stories about the future; Glossary; References; Index.

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Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Fachbereich:	Internationales & ausländ. Recht
Genre:	Recht
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781009300216
ISBN-10:	1009300210
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	de Vries, Bert J M
Auflage:	2. Auflage
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Pr.
Maße:	254 x 180 x 32 mm
Von/Mit:	Bert J M de Vries
Erscheinungsdatum:	07.12.2023
Gewicht:	1,375 kg

Artikel-ID: 126949343

Über den Autor

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Fachbereich:	Internationales & ausländ. Recht
Genre:	Recht
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781009300216
ISBN-10:	1009300210
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	de Vries, Bert J M
Auflage:	2. Auflage
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Pr.
Maße:	254 x 180 x 32 mm
Von/Mit:	Bert J M de Vries
Erscheinungsdatum:	07.12.2023
Gewicht:	1,375 kg