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Sustainability Science

The Emerging Paradigm and the Urban Environment

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Michael P. Weinstein

    1. PSEG Institute for Sustainability Studie, Montclair State University, Montclair, USA

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  2. R. Eugene Turner

    1. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA

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  • This book highlights sustainability science by addressing key challenges for scientists

  • A goal of this book is to try and understand the workings of complex systems when humans are involved

  • Greater degrees of integration across science and technology systems is a key factor in matching solutions to sustainability problems

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Managing the Earth’s Life Support Systems: The Emergence of Sustainability Science and Transdisciplinarity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. From the Unity of Nature to Sustainability Science: Ideas and Practice

      • Robert W. Kates
      Pages 3-19

    3. Sustaining Sustainability: Creating a Systems Science in a Fragmented Academy and Polarized World

      • John D. Sterman
      Pages 21-58

    4. A Landscape Approach for Sustainability Science

      • Jianguo (Jingle) Wu
      Pages 59-77

    5. It’s OK to Talk About Sustainability

      • Alan D. Hecht
      Pages 79-96

  3. Balancing Ecology and Economy: Natural Capital and Quality of Life

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. The Value of Natural and Social Capital in Our Current Full World and in a Sustainable and Desirable Future

      • Robert Costanza
      Pages 99-109

    3. Steps Towards Sustainability and Tools for Restoring Natural Capital: Etang de Berre (Southern France) Case Study

      • James Aronson, Florian Claeys, Vanja Westerberg, Philippe Picon, Guillaume Bernard, Jean-Michel Bocognano et al.
      Pages 111-138

    4. Sustainability of Biodiversity Under Global Changes, with Particular Reference to Biological Invasions

      • Daniel Simberloff
      Pages 139-157

  4. From Science to Policy: Managing the Commons, Social Learning, and Social Responsibility

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-160
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  5. From Science to Policy: Managing the Commons, Social Learning and Social Responsibility

    1. “Post-sustainability”: The Emergence of the Social Sciences as the Hand-Maidens of Policy

      • Michael R. Redclift
      Pages 161-176

    2. The Purpose and Politics of Ecosystem-Based Management

      • Judith A. Layzer
      Pages 177-197

    3. Sustainable Coastal Margins: Challenges of Tempo and Mode for the Policy Domain

      • Ronald C. Baird
      Pages 199-219

    4. Fishery and Forest Transitions to Sustainability: A Comparative Analysis

      • Bonnie J. McCay, Thomas K. Rudel
      Pages 221-243
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About this book

The object of this book is to highlight how the nascent field of sustainability science is addressing a key challenges for scientists; that is, understanding the workings of complex systems especially when humans are involved. A consistent thread in the sustainability science movement is the wide acknowledgement that greater degrees of integration across what are now segmented dimensions of extant Science and Technology systems will be a key factor in matching the most appropriate science and technology solutions to specific sustainability problems in specific places.

Editors and Affiliations

  • PSEG Institute for Sustainability Studie, Montclair State University, Montclair, USA

    Michael P. Weinstein

  • Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA

    R. Eugene Turner

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