Title: Complexity and sustainability /
Authors: Wells, Jennifer, 1969-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biotic communities; Complexity (Philosophy); Environmentalism; Social systems.; System theory
Contents: Introduction -- Elucidating complexity theories -- Complexity in the natural sciences -- Complexity in social theory -- Towards transdisciplinarity -- Complexity in philosophy: complexification and the limits to knowledge -- Complexity in ethics -- Earth in the anthropocene -- Complexity and climate change -- American dreams, ecological nightmares and new visions -- Complexity and sustainability: wicked problems, gordian knots and synergistic solutions -- Conclusion.