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Global Overshoot

Contemplating the World's Converging Problems

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  • Builds up an historical and pre-historical understanding of how humanity and the human ecosystem came to be as they are

  • Discusses Ecohumanism as a tool for thinking about the Global Overshoot Crisis

  • Attempts to understand what is happening within the world's problems rather than suggest solutions

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. The Road to High Complexity

    • Doug Cocks
    Pages 219-295
  3. Confronting Global Overshoot

    • Doug Cocks
    Pages 297-347
  4. Ecohumanism and Other Stories

    • Doug Cocks
    Pages 349-375
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 377-401

About this book

Global Overshoot is a multidisciplinary analysis (including history and pre-history) from an ecological and evolutionary perspective of the contemporary world system.  This book compares and critiques attitudes held by people with different world views to the hypothetical prospect of large widespread falls in quality of life. It also draws insights from these two analyses to develop and suggest a philosophy of Ecohumanism to people of good will who want to think constructively about the world’s converging problems, i.e. think altruistically and ‘think like an evolving ecosystem.’ 

Authors and Affiliations

  • CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Canberra, Australia

    Doug Cocks

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Global Overshoot

  • Book Subtitle: Contemplating the World's Converging Problems

  • Authors: Doug Cocks

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6265-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-6264-4Published: 13 March 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8777-8Published: 10 April 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-6265-1Published: 13 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 401

  • Topics: Environment, general, Sustainable Development, Human Geography

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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