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Water interactions: A systemic view - Why we need to comprehend the water-climate-energy-food-economics-lifestyle connections (Paperback)
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Water interactions: A systemic view - Why we need to comprehend the water-climate-energy-food-economics-lifestyle connections (Paperback)
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During the last two decades, the interrelationship between water
and energy has become recognized. Likewise, the couplings to food
and agriculture are getting increasingly obvious and alarming. In
the last year, a record number of extreme weather events have been
reported from most parts of the world. This is a visible
demonstration how consequences of climate change must be understood
and alleviated. The impacts of economics, lifestyle, and alarming
inequalities are becoming increasingly recognisable. If the wealthy
part of the world is not willing not make radical changes it does
not matter what the less wealthy half of the global population will
do to meet the climate and resource crisis. The purpose of the book
is to demonstrate and describe how climate change, water, energy,
food, and lifestyle are closely depending on each other. It is not
sufficient to handle one discipline isolated from the others. This
is the traditional "component view". The book defines and describes
a systems view. The communications and relationships between the
"components" have to be described and recognized. Consequently, the
development of one discipline must be approached from a systems
perspective. At the same time, the success of the systems
perspective depends on the degree of knowledge of the individual
parts or disciplines. The catchphrase of systems thinking has been
caught in the phrase, "The whole is more than the sum of its
parts". The idea is not new: the origin of this phrase is to be
found already in Aristotle's Metaphysics more than 2300 years ago.
The text may serve as an academic text (in engineering, economics,
and environmental science) to introduce senior undergraduate and
graduate students into systems thinking. Too often education
encourages a "silo" thinking. Current global challenges can't be
solved in isolation; they depend on each other. For example, water
professionals should have a basic understanding of energy issues.
Energy professionals ought to understand the dependency on water.
Economic students should learn more how economy depends on natural
resources like energy and water. Economics must include the
environmental impact and ecological ceiling of economic activities.
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