Complexity and Sustainability
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Complexity and Sustainability

  1. 354 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Complexity and Sustainability

About this book

Complex dynamic system studies have been studied explicitly in the natural sciences, and most only implicitly throughout other fields. Yet much great social theory and philosophy is in fact based in complexity, and important concepts like postmodernism, risk, and collapse all stem from complexity. Six key terms are explored: nonlinearity, feedbacks, thresholds, hierarchies, emergence and self-organization, and dozens of related principles are discussed, with a focus on uncertainty, risk, vulnerability, learning, strategy, resilience, collapse and sustainability. The book surveys the role of these complexity principles in the natural sciences, social theory, transdisciplinary discourse, philosophy, and ethics, and shows how this complexity framework is a valuable lens for approaching the spectre of climate change and life in the Anthropocene.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9781136215308
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business General
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. 1 Introduction
  8. 2 Elucidating complexity theories
  9. 3 Complexity in the natural sciences
  10. 4 Complexity in social theory
  11. 5 Towards transdisciplinarity
  12. 6 Complexity in philosophy Complexification and the limits to knowledge
  13. 7 Complexity in ethics
  14. 8 Earth in the Anthropocene
  15. 9 Complexity and climate change
  16. 10 American dreams, ecological nightmares, and new visions
  17. 11 Complexity and sustainability Wicked problems, Gordian knots, and synergistic solutions
  18. 12 Conclusion
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index