Social Sustainability, Past and Future

Social Sustainability, Past and Future

Undoing Unintended Consequences for the Earth's Survival

van der Leeuw, Sander

Cambridge University Press

02/2020

350

Dura

Inglês

9781108498692

15 a 20 dias

700

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1. How this book came about, what it is, and what it is not; 2. Defining the challenge; 3. Science and society; 4. Transdisciplinary pro and contra; 5. The importance of a long-term perspective; 6. Looking forward into the future; 7. The complex (adaptive) systems approach; 8. Human socio-environmental coevolution; 9. Social systems as dissipative flow structures; 10. Solutions always cause problems; 11. Transitions in the organization of societies; 12. Novelty, invention, change; 13. The invention process and its implications for societal information processing; 14. Modeling socio-environmental transitions; 15. Rise of the West as a global flow structure; 16. Are we reaching a global societal tipping point?; 17. Not an ordinary tipping point; 18. Our fragmenting world; 19. Is there a way out?; 20. Green growth; 21. Conclusion.
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sustainability; information processing; complex adaptive systems; long-term perspective; perspective on the future; transdisciplinarity; modeling; scenario development; history of science; social science perspective; tipping points; crises; unintended unanticipated consequences; invention and innovation; pottery making; niche formation; globalization; ICT revolution; planetary boundaries; imagined futures; signal and noise; societal transitions; socio-environmental dynamics; financial crisis; debt; wealth gap; demography; aging and health; representative democracy; community building; value space; sustainable development goals; no-growth; big data; automation; artificial intelligence; solutions cause problems; societal co-evolution; technology; cognition; anticipation; feedback