Sustainable Development in Changing Complex Earth Systems

✍ Scribed by Attila Kerényi, Richard William McIntosh

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 307
Series: Sustainable Development Goals Series
Edition: 1st ed. 2020
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book applies system theory to analyze the operation and structure of the complex earth surface system, including the interactions between society and nature that cause environmental degradation and threats to human populations. The possible ways to harmonize the operation of a global society as a complex system using the United Nation sustainable development goals are investigated, as well as the major efforts currently implemented to achieve this objective and why many are unsuccessful. Readers will learn this material through case studies that assess the essential conditions required to occupy a planet sustainably, and examine the complex interactions between society and nature in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and outer layers of the lithosphere. The book is written for undergraduate students in geography, earth sciences, environmental sciences, and ecology, and will also appeal to environmental agency employees, nature protection representatives, teachers, and researchers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii
Introduction (Attila Kerényi, Richard William McIntosh)....Pages 1-9
Structure and Operation of Systems, Models of the Global Earth System (Attila Kerényi, Richard William McIntosh)....Pages 11-58
Internal Material Flows in the Earth and Their Effects on the Society (Attila Kerényi, Richard William McIntosh)....Pages 59-74
Changes on Earth as a Result of Interaction Between the Society and Nature (Attila Kerényi, Richard William McIntosh)....Pages 75-202
Structure and Operation of the Global Society (Anthroposphere) (Attila Kerényi, Richard William McIntosh)....Pages 203-226
Steps Towards Realising Global Sustainable Development (Attila Kerényi, Richard William McIntosh)....Pages 227-262
Conclusions: Towards an Environmental Friendly Humane Society (Attila Kerényi, Richard William McIntosh)....Pages 263-268
Back Matter ....Pages 269-292

✦ Subjects

Environment; Sustainable Development; Earth System Sciences; Environmental Geography; Climate Change

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