Sustainability Science: The Emerging Paradigm and the Urban Environment

Book Overview

The object of this book is to highlight how the nascent field of sustainability science is addressing a key challenges for scientists; that is, understanding the workings of complex systems especially when humans are involved. A consistent thread in the sustainability science movement is the wide acknowledgement that greater degrees of integration across what are now segmented dimensions of extant Science and Technology systems will be a key factor in matching the most appropriate science and technology solutions to specific sustainability problems in specific places.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149390051X
• ISBN13: 9781493900510
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"