Table of Contents
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1. Sustainable Development: A Personal and Societal Aspiration
1.1 Introduction
1.2 (The Ideal of) Development
1.3 (The Ideal of) Sustainability
1.4 Summary
Review Questions
Further Reading
2. Sustainability Science: Context and Content
2.1 Sustainable Development: History of the Concept
2.2 Changing Perspective on the Human-Nature Relationship
2.3 Sustainability Science
2.4 The Sustainable Development Goals
2.5 Summary
Review Questions
Further Reading
Websites
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Beginnings: Two Environmental Tales
3.3 Emerging Social Complexity
3.4 Rise and Fall of Empires
3.5 Human-Environment Interactions in Deep History
3.6 Summary
Review Questions
Further Reading
Websites
4. Industrialization: The Great Acceleration
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Industrialization and Its Drivers
4.3 Nature in the Industrial Era
4.4 Summary
Review Questions
Further Reading
Websites
5. Modernity: The Idea of Progress
5.1 The Road to Modernity
5.2 ‘Progress’: Science and Technology
5.3 Emancipation: Ethics in Modernity
5.4 The Shadows
5.5 Summary
Review Questions
Further Reading
Websites
6.1 Worldviews
6.2 Societal Dynamics
6.3 In Search of the Centre
6.4 Summary
Review Questions
Further Reading
Websites
7. Worldviews: Values, Beliefs, Ethics
7.1 Values and Beliefs
7.2 Ethics: The Good Life
7.3 A Personal Journey
7.4 Summary
Review Questions
Further Reading
Websites
8.1 Scientific Knowledge
8.2 Complexity
8.3 Modelling
8.4 Organizing Concepts
8.5 Summary
Review Questions
Further Reading
Websites
9. Modelling Sustainable Development
9.1 Systems Thinking
9.2 System Dynamics Modelling
9.3 Constructing System Dynamic Models
9.4 Agent-Based Modelling: Behaviour
9.5 Summary
Review Questions
Further Reading
Websites
10.1 Organizing Schemes
10.2 Data and Accounting and Assessment Methods
10.3 From Principle to Action: Indicators
10.4 Values and Preferences: Consumer Expenditures
10.5 Summary
Review Questions
Further Reading
Websites
11. Population: Humans and Their Habitat
11.1 Systems Thinking
11.2 System Dynamics Modelling
11.3 Constructing System Dynamic Models
11.4 Agent-Based Modelling: Behaviour
11.5 Population Futures and Worldviews
11.6 Summary
Review Questions
Further Reading
Websites
12. Pillars of Development: Health, Education and Mobility
12.1 Introduction
12.2 The Health Transition
12.3 Education
12.4 Mobility
12.5 Perspectives on Health, Education and Mobility
12.6 Summary
Review Questions
Further Reading
Websites
13. Nature: The Life-Support System
13.1 Introduction: Nature Awareness
13.2 Land
13.3 Ecosystems
13.4 Climate Change
13.5 Perspectives on Nature
13.6 Summary
Review Questions
Further Reading
Websites
14. Renewable Resources: Fisheries and Forests
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Renewable Resources
14.3 Fisheries
14.4 Forests
14.5 Perspectives on Fish and Forest
14.6 Summary
Review Questions
Further Reading
Websites
15. Land and Agro-Food Systems
15.1 Introduction: Food Awareness
15.2 Food Consumption
15.3 Food Production
15.4 Global Food: Drivers and Limitations
15.5 Perspectives on Food and Agriculture
15.6 Summary
Review Questions
Further Reading
Websites
16. Water: The Precious Resource
16.1 Introduction: Water Awareness
16.2 Water Use
16.3 Water Supply
16.4 Water Governance
16.5 Water Futures
16.6 Summary
Review Questions
Further Reading
Websites
17. Energy: To a Carbon-Free Supply
17.1 Introduction: Energy Awareness
17.2 Energy: Some Basics
17.3 Energy Use
17.4 Energy Supply and Conversion
17.5 Energy Futures: Worldviews
17.6 Summary
Review Questions
Further Reading
Websites
18. Materials: Towards a Circular Economy
18.1 Introduction
18.2 Materials: Some Basics
18.3 Materials: Use Chains
18.4 Environmental Sinks: Pollution
18.5 Materials Futures: Worldviews
18.6 Summary
Review Questions
Further Reading
Websites
19. The Economy
19.1 Experiencing ‘the Economy’
19.2 Ideas about the Economy
19.3 Post-Growth Economics
19.4 Worldviews
19.5 Summary
Review Questions
Further Reading
Websites
20.1 Introduction
20.2 Scenarios for a Future World
20.3 Some Imagined and Past Futures
20.4 Growing Beyond or Staying Within Planetary Boundaries?
20.5 Scenarios for a Sustainable World
Review Questions
Further Reading
Websites