Complexity and sustainability
By: Jennifer Wells
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780415695770; 9780203095676
Subjects: Ecosystems; Environmentalism; Social systems; Complexity (Philosophy); System theory
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Elucidating complexity theories; title: Complexity in the natural sciences; title: Complexity in social theory; title: Towards transdisciplinarity; title: Complexity in philosophy: complexification and the limits to knowledge; title: Complexity in ethics; title: Earth in the anthropocene; title: Complexity and climate change; title: American dreams, ecological nightmares and new visions; title: Complexity and sustainability: wicked problems, gordian knots and synergistic solutions; title: Conclusion.