Jennifer Wells

Complexity and Sustainability

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781138790742
• ISBN-10: 1138790745
• Artikelnr.: 40493414

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Wells is Assistant Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Foreward 1. Introduction 2. Elucidating Complexity Theories 3. Complexity
in the Natural Sciences 4. Complexity in Social Theory 5. Towards
Transdisciplinarity 6. Complexity in Philosophy: Complexification and the
Limits to Knowledge 7. Complexity in Ethics 8. Earth in the Anthropocene 9.
Complexity and Climate Change 10. American Dreams, Ecological Nightmares
and New Visions 11. Complexity and Sustainability: Wicked Problems, Gordian
Knots and Synergistic Solutions 12. Conclusion