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This book addresses sustainability thinking and the bigger picture,
by taking into consideration how and from where contemporary
schools of thought emerged approximately a quarter-century ago.
Evidence from the literature illustrates a number of key concepts
and techniques that have been tested and continue to be tested,
within various multi-disciplinary fields, on societal
functionality. Research into sustainable societies needs to be
sound, ethical, and creative. A cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary
examination of challenges and strategies is used to interlink
sustainability thinking and human-nature relations. With an
ever-growing number of people now concentrated within urban areas,
providing not only environmental quality and livable space, but
also security and resilient urban systems, is becoming increasingly
important. This urbanization trend has overlapped with
environmental degradation, consumption of natural resources,
habitat loss, and overall ecosystem change. Consequently, the goal
is for cleaner, safer societies - with higher standards of living -
to excel in support of current and future generational communities.
The book tackles these challenges by integrating environmental
scholarship, economic evaluation, and urban strategies under one
umbrella of thought. The relational paradigms presented include
examples that correlate developed and developing countries,
socioeconomics and community development, and governance of
knowledge and education. As such, the book argues, furthering of
knowhow should be accessible and shared in order to achieve maximum
innovation and benefit. Sustainability thinking, after all, is a
metric for intrinsic human-nature relations in terms of past
performance, present development, and future goals. This book
discusses this metric and offers novel approaches to growing
societies and what we can do next.
This book explores in detail how African countries dealt with the
pandemic and how it affected different aspects of different
economies and social structures. Observing how human beings change
the environment and, specifically, how population growth and
urbanization negatively impact nature, recently shocked economies
and social upheaval in Africa indicate a crossroads moment for the
continent. The book further adds to the knowledge base of how to
build a more robust Africa with sustainable solutions working in
tandem with vibrant and robust economies. Commonsense social
strategies go hand in hand with trackable shocked economies via
first- and second-moment reactions. Uncertainty shocks, in this
case, interrelate via an umbrella effect. The authors evaluate
theories of impact shocks using a sustainable growth and change
model. Finally, key topics incorporate new urban thinking for
economic recovery, developing sustainable economies post-COVID-19,
understanding social practices during a crisis, and developing
community robustness via shock events. The book integrates an
interdisciplinary approach to understanding how to best mitigate
the COVID-19 crisis as well as reduce future shocks to the African
continent. It raises vital questions connecting the effects of
lockdown measures, crisis causation, and shock impacts most
countries faced over the last two-year period. The answers to these
questions are not limited to economists and sociologists, instead,
they magnify to include policymakers and everyday people. The
nature of this book is to help piece together solutions for
preparedness, a stronger understanding of sound development, and a
united and resilient Pan-Africanism to best handle future shock
events.
The answers to the questions of why and how people live where they
live as well as how they maintain and integrate with one another
are fundamental human settlement issues rooted in history and
culture. Human settlements are historically linked to resource
availability, fortification, and the mythos of civilizations.
Cities play a central role in redefining the interface between
human beings and nature. They have revolutionized the human
experience by taming natural surroundings and building environments
that are human-centric-often narrowing human life outside the
experience of wilderness or the untamed. This book is divided into
three parts, it examines urban development trends, explores
perspectives in energy efficiency and agriculture security, and
considers policy development and future scenarios in human-nature
relations. It is a compendium of multidisciplinary work that
challenges the directions of modernity and offers reference to
alternatives. Authors come from a diverse background and
international context to address common overarching theories facing
current geography-specific problems. An interconnected overtone of
the book attempts to link accelerated urbanization and settlement
location to how societies are maintained and integrated. Human
settlements are shaped by human ecology and the relationship
between humans and their interaction with their environment. Two
sectors central to human survival are specifically explored: energy
and agriculture. Cutting-edge, smart development looks at the
latest findings that reflect the on-going debate facing these
sectors. A human settlement metric is envisioned in terms of the
past, present, and future. This book is a unique attempt to combine
a rethinking about human settlements for scientists, policy-makers,
public officials, and people committed to improving urban life,
society-wide. Possible agents to resolving human settlement
problems include international cooperation and various mechanisms
that interlace the international community. Methodological and
applied aspects of sustainable management focus on topics such as
adaptive knowledge sharing, renewable energy, climate change,
agricultural planning, and policy development. An emphasis on
scientific and technological advancement, from a bottom-up mapping
of society, elucidates a better understanding of the role of
knowledgeable societies in which need is considered alongside how
such need can be sustained-advancing towards a more promising
future.
The answers to the questions of why and how people live where they
live as well as how they maintain and integrate with one another
are fundamental human settlement issues rooted in history and
culture. Human settlements are historically linked to resource
availability, fortification, and the mythos of civilizations.
Cities play a central role in redefining the interface between
human beings and nature. They have revolutionized the human
experience by taming natural surroundings and building environments
that are human-centric-often narrowing human life outside the
experience of wilderness or the untamed. This book is divided into
three parts, it examines urban development trends, explores
perspectives in energy efficiency and agriculture security, and
considers policy development and future scenarios in human-nature
relations. It is a compendium of multidisciplinary work that
challenges the directions of modernity and offers reference to
alternatives. Authors come from a diverse background and
international context to address common overarching theories facing
current geography-specific problems. An interconnected overtone of
the book attempts to link accelerated urbanization and settlement
location to how societies are maintained and integrated. Human
settlements are shaped by human ecology and the relationship
between humans and their interaction with their environment. Two
sectors central to human survival are specifically explored: energy
and agriculture. Cutting-edge, smart development looks at the
latest findings that reflect the on-going debate facing these
sectors. A human settlement metric is envisioned in terms of the
past, present, and future. This book is a unique attempt to combine
a rethinking about human settlements for scientists, policy-makers,
public officials, and people committed to improving urban life,
society-wide. Possible agents to resolving human settlement
problems include international cooperation and various mechanisms
that interlace the international community. Methodological and
applied aspects of sustainable management focus on topics such as
adaptive knowledge sharing, renewable energy, climate change,
agricultural planning, and policy development. An emphasis on
scientific and technological advancement, from a bottom-up mapping
of society, elucidates a better understanding of the role of
knowledgeable societies in which need is considered alongside how
such need can be sustained-advancing towards a more promising
future.
This book addresses sustainability thinking and the bigger picture,
by taking into consideration how and from where contemporary
schools of thought emerged approximately a quarter-century ago.
Evidence from the literature illustrates a number of key concepts
and techniques that have been tested and continue to be tested,
within various multi-disciplinary fields, on societal
functionality. Research into sustainable societies needs to be
sound, ethical, and creative. A cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary
examination of challenges and strategies is used to interlink
sustainability thinking and human-nature relations. With an
ever-growing number of people now concentrated within urban areas,
providing not only environmental quality and livable space, but
also security and resilient urban systems, is becoming increasingly
important. This urbanization trend has overlapped with
environmental degradation, consumption of natural resources,
habitat loss, and overall ecosystem change. Consequently, the goal
is for cleaner, safer societies - with higher standards of living -
to excel in support of current and future generational communities.
The book tackles these challenges by integrating environmental
scholarship, economic evaluation, and urban strategies under one
umbrella of thought. The relational paradigms presented include
examples that correlate developed and developing countries,
socioeconomics and community development, and governance of
knowledge and education. As such, the book argues, furthering of
knowhow should be accessible and shared in order to achieve maximum
innovation and benefit. Sustainability thinking, after all, is a
metric for intrinsic human-nature relations in terms of past
performance, present development, and future goals. This book
discusses this metric and offers novel approaches to growing
societies and what we can do next.
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