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A World In Transition: Humankind and Nature

The Green Book of “Einstein Meets Magritte”

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Diederik Aerts

    1. Brussels Free University, Belgium

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  2. Jan Broekaert

    1. Brussels Free University, Belgium

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  3. Willy Weyns

    1. Brussels Free University, Belgium

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Social Change and the Individual Condition

    1. A Critique of the Competitiveness Imperative and Current Globalisation

      • Riccardo Petrella
      Pages 1-18

    2. Barriers of Human Evolution

      • Borisz Szántó
      Pages 19-31

    3. Altered States of Society: A Tentative Approach

      • Dmitri Spivak
      Pages 33-42

    4. Social Space: From Freedom to Freedom of Movement

      • Diederik Aerts
      Pages 43-82

    5. Hunger Strikes: The Dramaturgy of Starvation Politics

      • Kyra Marie Landzelius
      Pages 83-90

  4. Ecological Transformation and Responsibility Inquiries

    1. Science and Environmental Law. The Perspectives of Truth-Pluralism

      • Serge Gutwirth
      Pages 175-196

    2. Strength and Weakness (SWOT) Analysis of Humankind to Overcome the Global Ecological Challenges

      • Willy Weyns
      Pages 197-204

    3. “And you, my Mountain, will you Never Walk Towards me?”

      • Jan Fennema
      Pages 205-215

    4. Humankind and Nature

      • Peng Fu-yang
      Pages 217-223

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 283-287
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A World in Transition, Humankind and Nature is appropriately entitled after its aim for an intrinsic property of reality: change.
Of major concern, in this era of transformation, is the extensive and profound interaction of humankind with nature. The global-scale social and technological project of humankind definitely involves a myriad of changes of the ecosphere. This book develops, from the call for an interdisciplinary synthesis and respect of plurality, acknowledging the evolving scientific truth, to the need for an integrated but inevitably provisional worldview.
Contributors from different parts of the world focus on four modes of change: (i) Social change and the individual condition, (ii) Complex evolution and fundamental emergent transformations, (iii) Ecological transformation and responsibility inquiries, (iv) The economic-ecological and socio-technical equilibria.
Primarily concerned with the deep transformations of humankind and of the relationship between humans and nature, it is addressed to a broad and thinking public that wants to be kept informed.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Brussels Free University, Belgium

    Diederik Aerts, Jan Broekaert, Willy Weyns

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