Sustainability Science - Managing Risk and Resilience for Sustainable Development (Hardcover)

"Sustainability Science: Managing Risk and Resilience for Sustainable Development" examines this holistic discipline s key concepts, models, and findings regarding the most pressing sustainability issues: climate change, population growth and poverty, energy, public policy, economic growth, and resource systems. The natural and social sciences are woven together throughout the book to provide an inclusive, accurate understanding of relevant trends and events.

Emerging as new disciplines at the turn of the twenty-first century, sustainability science and sustainable development are becoming guiding principles across the geosciences, ecology, environmental science, economics, and social science. Scientists continue to wrestle with their complexity, interwoven concepts, and mutual impact, but because of the subjects indigenous challenges and necessary multidisciplinary focus, it s difficult to find authoritative content in a single source. Authored by a scientist with multiple degrees in geosciences, environmental science, political science, and engineering, this book helps galvanize the science s multidisciplinary nature by focusing on the guiding principles of sustainability science s past, present, and future, and how it is shaping our management of human-environment interaction.
Examines our vulnerability to natural and human-induced hazards and disasters, and how the management of the human-environment relationship impacts and shapes public policy and global economic healthIntroduces new understanding of how poverty reduction and more viable use of natural resources is vital to sustainable future development Features more than 150 figures, full-color photographs, diagrams, and illustrations to highlight major themes and aid in the retention of key concepts Presents a holistic approach to advances in the inter-relationships across the geosciences, ecology, environmental science, economics, and engineering, and provides conceptual and practical tools for linking safety and sustainability"

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