(Ebook) Sustainability Science 1st Edition by Bert J M de Vries ISBN 1107005884 9781107005884

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ISBN 10: 1107005884 
ISBN 13: 9781107005884
Author: Bert J M de Vries

Sustainable development is becoming the guiding principle for the twenty-first century. This textbook - based on the author's course and rigorously class-tested by his students - provides an introduction into patterns of past and present (un)sustainable development and into the emergence of the notion of sustainable development. It systematically surveys the key concepts, models and findings of the various scientific disciplines with respect to the major sustainability issues: energy, nature, agro-food and resource systems, and economic growth. System analysis and modelling is introduced and used as an integrating tool. Stories and worldviews are used to connect the quantitative and the qualitative and to offer the reader an understanding of relevant trends and events in context. Sustainability Science is an ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses in sustainable development and in environmental and resource science and policy.

(Ebook) Sustainability Science 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction
1.1 Roots
1.2 Sustainability Science
1.3 Sustainable Development Is About Quality of Life
1.4 Guidelines for the Reader
Appendix 1.1 United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
2 The System Dynamics Perspective
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The World Car System
2.3 System Dynamics: The Basics
2.3.1 What Is a System?
2.3.2 Stocks and Flows
2.3.3 Feedback Loops
2.3.4 An Illustrative Simulation Experiment
2.4 System Dynamics Modelling
2.4.1 The Rules of the Game
2.4.2 Archetypes
2.4.3 An Example: Modelling Car and Public Transport Use
2.5 Structure, Space and Time
2.6 Summary Points
Appendix 2.1 Integral-Differential Calculus
3 In Search of Sustainability: Past Civilisations
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Beginnings: Two Environmental Tales
3.2.1 The Hohokam People in Arizona
3.2.2 Easter Island
3.3 Emerging Social Complexity: State Formation
3.3.1 Early Mesopotamia: Urban Centres and Their Elites
3.3.2 Egypt: The Nile and Its Rhythms
3.3.3 South Asia: The Indus-Sarasvati Civilisation
3.3.4 The Aegean and Mesoamerica: The Role of Ecological Diversity
3.4 Empires
3.4.1 The Roman Empire
3.4.2 Other Empires: China, India and Russia
3.5 Mechanisms, Theories and Models
3.5.1 Mechanisms
3.5.2 Theories and Models
3.6 Summary Points
4 The World in the Past 300 Years: The Great Acceleration
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The World in the Last Three Centuries
4.2.1 Accelerating Growth: Population and Economic Activity
4.2.2 Social-Cultural Changes
4.3 Accelerating Impacts: The Natural Environment
4.3.1 The Source Side
4.3.2 The Sink Side
4.3.3 Experiencing Change
4.4 Earth System Analysis: Regimes and Syndromes
4.4.1 Social-Ecological Regimes
4.4.2 Syndromes and Archetypes
4.5 Summary Points
5 Sustainability: Concerns, Definitions, Indicators
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Global Change: The Scientific Worldview
5.2.1 The Scientific Worldview: Earth
5.2.2 The Scientific Worldview: Life
5.2.3 The Scientific Worldview: Society
5.3 Rising Concerns
5.3.1 Early Concerns: Managing Common Inheritance
5.3.2 The Environmental Movement
5.3.3 Our Common Future?
5.4 The Notion of Sustainable Development
5.4.1 Prelude: Categories of Goods and Services
5.4.2 Interpretations and Definitions
5.5 An Indicator Framework for Sustainable Development
5.5.1 From Principle to Action: Indicators
5.5.2 A Sustainable Development Indicator System (SDIS)
5.5.3 Quality-of-Life–Oriented and Aggregate SD-Indicators
5.6 Summary Points
6 Quality of Life: On Values, Knowledge and Worldviews
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Quality of Life and Values
6.2.1 Needs and the Quality of Life
6.2.2 Capabilities and Satisfiers
6.2.3 Values and Their Measurement
6.3 The Cultural Theory
6.3.1 Stories from the Himalayas and Bali
6.3.2 Four Perspectives
6.4 Worldviews: Ways to See the World
6.4.1 Values and Beliefs: Four Worldviews
6.4.2 Worldviews in History
6.4.3 Mechanisms of Social Change
6.5 Worldviews in Action
6.6 Summary Points
7 Energy Fundamentals
7.1 Introduction: The Essential Resource
7.2 Basic Energy Science: Thermodynamics
7.2.1 Classical Thermodynamics: The First and Second Law
7.2.2 Energy Quality: The Potential to Do Work
7.2.3 Energy Forms
7.3 Movement in Space and Time: Mechanics
7.4 Stories
7.4.1 Fuel-Efficient Stoves for People in Darfur
7.4.2 The South Nyírség Bioenergy Project
7.5 Energy Conversion
7.5.1 Elementary Processes
7.5.2 The Energy System
7.6 Energy Futures
7.7 Summary Points
Appendix 7.1 The Steady-State Mass-Energy Equation
8 On Knowledge and Models
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Models in the Natural Sciences
8.2.1 The Scientific Method
8.2.2 Models and the Modelling Process
8.3 Strong and Weak Knowledge
8.4 Complexity
8.5 Metamodels and Organising Concepts
8.6 Science in the Age of Complexity
8.7 Summary Points
Appendix 8.1 A Brief History of Complex Systems Science
9 Land and Nature
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Earth: Soil Climate Vegetation Maps
9.3 Stories
9.3.1 Forest Fires
9.3.2 Biodiversity in South America: The Trésor Project
9.3.3 Mining in Papua New Guinea
9.4 Land Cover Change and Degradation
9.5 Ecosystem Dynamics: Population Ecology
9.5.1 Population Ecology: Logistic Growth
9.5.2 Population Models: Prey-Predator Dynamics
9.6 Food Webs: The Stocks and Flows in Ecosystems
9.6.1 Food Webs and Their Representations
9.6.2 Stability and Resilience
9.7 Catastrophic Change in Ecosystems
9.8 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
9.9 Nature and Sustainable Development
9.10 Summary Points
Appendix 9.1 Prey-Predator Models and Stability Analysis
Appendix 9.2 Catastrophic Change and Bifurcations
10 Human Populations and Human Behaviour
10.1 Introduction: The Image of Man
10.2 Demography: Human Population Dynamics
10.2.1 Modelling Population
10.2.2 Driving Forces
10.3 Evolution: Our Biological Roots
10.4 Homo Economicus and Its Critics
10.4.1 Consumers and Producers
10.4.2 Games, Dilemmas and Cooperation
10.5 Simulating Human Behaviour
10.5.1 Introduction
10.5.2 Cellular Automata Models
10.5.3 Interaction: Networks
10.5.4 Multi-Agent Simulation: Behavioural Variety
10.6 Summary Points
Appendix 10.1 Models of Economic Decision Making
Appendix 10.2 Replicator Dynamics
Appendix 10.3 Network or Graph Theory
11 Agro-Food Systems
11.1 Introduction: The Human Habitat
11.1.1 Land and People
11.1.2 Anthromes
11.2 Agricultural Systems
11.2.1 Agro-Food Systems in the World
11.2.2 Food: Needs and Consumption
11.2.3 Food: Resources and Potential Supply
11.2.4 More Food: Can It Be Supplied Sustainably?
11.3 Stories from the Real World
11.3.1 Nomads in Mongolia
11.3.2 Can and Should Rural France Be Saved?
11.4 Land Use and Cover Change
11.4.1 Land Use Changes and Its Causes
11.4.2 Modelling Land Use and Cover Change
11.5 Towards a Global Industrial Agro-Food System
11.5.1 Diversity in Transition
11.5.2 The Global Agro-Food System
11.5.3 Markets, Scale and Innovations As Driving Forces
11.6 Perspectives on Food and Agriculture
11.7 Summary Points
Appendix 11.1 Income and Price Elasticity
12 Renewable Resources: Water, Fish and Forest
12.1 Introduction: Lakeland
12.2 Renewable Resources
12.2.1 Renewable Resource Use: An Archetypical Model
12.2.2 Model Extensions and Management Principles
12.3 Water Resources
12.3.1 Water Availability and Use
12.3.2 Water for Irrigation: A Case Study and a Model
12.4 Stories
12.4.1 The Canadian Fish Drama
12.4.2 European Union Fisheries Policy in Senegal
12.5 Fisheries and Forests
12.5.1 World Fisheries
12.5.2 Fisheries Models: Strategies and Interactions
12.5.3 Fisheries Models: Behavioural Variety
12.5.4 World Forests
12.6 Interactive Modelling for Sustainable Livelihood
12.7 Perspectives on Water, Fish and Forest
12.8 Summary Points
Appendix 12.1 The Simple Population and Renewable Resource Model
Appendix 12.2 Resource Use in the Simple Model
Appendix 12.3 Modelling Different Harvesting Strategies
Appendix 12.4 The Geonamica Software
13 Non-Renewable Resources: The Industrial Economy
13.1 Introduction: The Industrial Regime
13.2 Non-Renewable Resource Chains: Extraction
13.2.1 Biogeochemical Element Cycles
13.2.2 Classification
13.2.3 Availability, Exploration and Extraction: Two Models
13.3 Elementary Resource Economics
13.3.1 Supply Cost Curves
13.3.2 Innovation: The Learning-By-Doing Mechanism
13.3.3 Optimal Depletion: The Resource Curse and Resource Security
13.4 Stories
13.4.1 Oil and Power
13.4.2 The Promise of Gold: Tambogrande
13.5 Resource Chains: Material Use and Efficiency
13.5.1 Assessment Methods
13.5.2 Dematerialisation: The Intensity-of-Use Hypothesis
13.5.3 Richer and Cleaner?
13.6 Stories
13.6.1 Pearl River Estuary, China
13.6.2 Water As a Commodity: Ban on Bottled Water in an Australian Town
13.6.3 Organotin Compounds As Antifouling Agents
13.7 The Sink Side: Environment and the Industrial Economy
13.7.1 Resource Chains: The Sink Side
13.7.2 Enduring Environmental Problems
13.7.3 Persistent Chemicals
13.8 Perspectives on the Industrial Economy
13.9 Summary Points
Appendix 13.1 The Crustal Abundance Geostatistical (CAG) Model
Appendix 13.2 The Logistic Growth Life Cycle Model
14 Towards a Sustainable Economy?
14.1 Introduction
14.1.1 An Archetypical Model
14.1.2 Substitutability, Technology and Optimality
14.2 Theories of Economic Growth
14.2.1 Classical Theories
14.2.2 Economic Growth Theory
14.2.3 The Role of Technology, Learning and Behaviour
14.3 Source and Sink Constraints in the Economy
14.3.1 Structural Economics: The Input-Output Formalism
14.3.2 Resource Efficiency and Pollution Abatement: Economic Mechanisms
14.4 Economic Growth and Sustainable Development
14.4.1 GDP and the Need for a Better Indicator
14.4.2 Beyond Models: Welcome to the Real World
14.5 Summary Points
Appendix 14.1 A Simple Behaviour Model of Saving
Appendix 14.2 Evolutionary Models of Producers and Consumers
Appendix 14.3 Input-Output Tables
Appendix 14.4 Gross Domestic Product
15 Outlook on Futures
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Outlooks
15.2.1 Sustainable Futures: Urban, Rural, Global
15.2.2 The Scenario Approach
15.2.3 Sustainable Development in a Scenario Frame
15.3 Scenarios for a Sustainable World
15.3.1 Four Stories
15.3.2 Growth within Limits…
15.3.3 …But Is It Sustainable?
15.4 An Agenda for Sustainability Science
Glossary
References
Index

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