Complexity Approach to Sustainability, A: Theory and Application

by Jon Walker and Angela Espinosa

A major challenge of our times is to understand and manage the increasing complexity of socio-economic reality. This has immediate relevance for sustainable development. The impact of recent contributions from systems and complexity sciences in addressing this issue has not filtered down into effective practice -- notably, there remain problems caused by the legacy of competing paradigms and the application of their associated methodologies. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848165285
• ISBN13: 9781848165281
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Imperial College Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"