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"Fully updated, this second edition provides a class-tested system analysis approach to sustainability for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. The latest scientific data and insights are integrated into a broad transdisciplinary framework. Readers explore sustainability issues through the lenses of cultural and methodological pluralism"--
Sustainable development is becoming the guiding principle for the twenty-first century. This textbook – based on the author's course and rigorously class-tested by his students – provides an introduction into patterns of past and present (un)sustainable development and into the emergence of the notion of sustainable development. It systematically surveys the key concepts, models and findings of the various scientific disciplines with respect to the major sustainability issues: energy, nature, agro-food and resource systems, and economic growth. System analysis and modelling is introduced and used as an integrating tool. Stories and worldviews are used to connect the quantitative and the qualitative and to offer the reader an understanding of relevant trends and events in context. Sustainability Science is an ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses in sustainable development and in environmental and resource science and policy
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Editors'Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Towards a Historical View of Humanity and the Biosphere / Goudsblom, Johan / Vries, Bert de -- 2. Introductory Overview: the Expanding Anthroposphere / Goudsblom, Johan -- 3. The Holocene: Global Change and Local Response / Marchant, Robert / Vries, Bert de -- 4. Environment and the Great Transition: Agrarianization / Vries, Bert de / Marchant, Robert -- 5. Exploring the Past: on Methods and Concepts / Vries, Bert de / Marchant, Robert / Greef, Jodi de -- 6. Increasing Social Complexity / Vries, Bert de -- 7. Empire: the Romans in the Mediterranean / Leeuw, Sander van der / Vries, Bert de -- 8. Understanding: Fragments of a Unifying Perspective / Vries, Bert de / Thompson, Michael / Wirtz, Kai -- 9. Population and Environment in Asia since 1600 AD / Revi, Aromar / Dronin, Nikolai M. / Vries, Bert de -- 10. The Past 250 Years: Industrialization and Globalization / Goudsblom, Johan -- 11. Back to Nature? The Punctuated History of a Natural Monument / Westbroek, Peter -- 12. Conclusions: Retrospect and Prospects / Goudsblom, Johan / Vries, Bert de -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the authors -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names -- Index of Geographic Names