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Sustainability science : managing risk and resilience for sustainable development / Per Becker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Becker, Per.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainability.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Elsevier, ©2014.
- Summary:
- A new, holistic transdisciplinary endeavour born in the 21st century, Sustainability Science: Managing Risk and Resilience for Sustainable Development aims to provide conceptual and practical approaches to sustainable development that help us to grasp and address uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity and dynamic change. Four aspects that permeate our contemporary world and undermine much of our traditional ways of thinking and doing. The concepts of risk and resilience are central in this endeavour to explain, understand and improve core challenges of humankind. Sustainability and sustainable.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introducing the Book
- Introduction
- Purpose of the Book
- Demarcation of the Book
- Structure of the Book
- Conclusion
- I.THE STATE OF THE WORLD
- 2.Our Past Defining Our Present
- Conquering Our Dynamic World
- Social Change Over Millennia
- The Invention of Risk
- 3.Our Sustainability Challenges
- Our Challenges as Discussed on World Conferences
- Our Boundaries for Sustainability
- 4.Our Disturbances, Disruptions and Disasters in a Dynamic World
- Our Symptomatic Events
- Our Processes of Change
- II.APPROACHING THE WORLD
- 5.Conceptual Frames for Risk, Resilience and Sustainable Development
- Philosophical Assumptions about Our World
- Development, Sustainability and Risk
- Managing Risk for Sustainable Development
- The Concept of Resilience
- 6.Resilience
- From Panacean to Pragmatic
- Note continued: Introduction
- Inherent Restrictions for Measuring Resilience
- Operationalizing Resilience
- Challenges for Developing Resilience
- Linking Resilience to Other Frameworks
- 7.The World as Human
- Environment Systems
- Why Human
- Environment Systems?
- Systems Approaches and Concepts
- Constructing Human
- III.CHANGING THE WORLD
- 8.Science and Change
- The Sciences of the Complemental
- Two Scientific Processes
- Reliability, Validity and Workability
- Limitations of Science for Change
- 9.Developing Capacities for Resilience
- Four Levels of Capacity
- Capacity Development for Resilience
- Central "Ships" in Capacity Development
- 10.Social Change for a Resilient Society
- Describing Social Change
- Prescribing Social Change
- 11.Concluding Remarks
- Introduction
- Note continued: The State of the World
- Approaching the World
- Changing the World
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Becker, Per. Sustainability science.
- ISBN:
- 9780444627292
- 0444627294
- 1306992850
- 9781306992855
- 044462709X
- 9780444627094
- OCLC:
- 885019700
- Publisher Number:
- 9780444627094
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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