Urban Galapagos - Transition to Sustainability in Complex Adaptive Systems (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

This book addresses the future of urbanisation on the Galapagos Islands from a systems, governance and design perspective with the competing parameters of liveability, economic and ecological, using the Galapagos as a laboratory for the theoretical and postulative understanding of evolving settlement and habitation. The Galapagos islands are one of the world's most examined and reported examples of a series of naturally evolving ecosystems. The biodiversity of these island ecosystems are the focus of tourism and the image across the world yet human settlement are part of the local ecology. While human intervention is limited, the islands are a distinctive context in which to consider the impact of human habitation as a part of our ecosystems. In this book, authors take the framework of complex adaptive systems (CAS) in which to model systems that grow and evolve, the relations between these various sectors change; systems that get more complex as they evolve. Tested and applied discretely in the two realms of natural and urban, for the first time this text will bring the two together in understanding options for the future of urban settlements on the Galapagos Islands and, by extension, consider how the approach can be used globally in other contexts.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands
Release date:	November 2018
First published:	2019
Editors:	Thomas Kvan • Justyna Karakiewicz
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	163
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-99533-5
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Conservation of the environment > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > Sustainability Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Urban & municipal planning > General Promotions
LSN:	3-319-99533-2
Barcode:	9783319995335

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