Social Sustainability, Past and Future - Undoing Unintended Consequences for the Earth's Survival (Hardcover)

In this book, Sander Van der Leeuw examines how the modern world has been caught in a socio-economic dynamic that has generated the conundrum of sustainability. Combining the methods of social science and complex systems science, he explores how western, developed nations have globalized their world view and how that view has led to the sustainability challenges we are now facing. Its central theme is the co-evolution of cognition, demography, social organization, technology and environmental impact. Beginning with the earliest human societies, Van der Leeuw links the distant past with the present in order to demonstrate how the information and communications technology revolution is undermining many of the institutional pillars on which contemporary societies have been constructed. An original view of social evolution as the history of human information-processing, his book shows how the past offers insight into the present, and can help us deal with the future. This title is also available as Open Access.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	New Directions in Sustainability and Society
Release date:	February 2020
Authors:	Sander van der Leeuw
Dimensions:	250 x 215 x 40mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	350
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-49869-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeological theory Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Environmental archaeology Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmentalist thought & ideology Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > Prehistoric archaeology Books > History > World history > General
LSN:	1-108-49869-8
Barcode:	9781108498692

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