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xix, 214 pages : 25 cm, \"From climate change to world poverty, we are currently facing a vast array of complex challenges which are part of an inter-related web of social and natural systems. Human ecology provides an approach to these problems, a way to understand them holistically and to manage them more effectively. This book offers a coherent conceptual framework for Human Ecology - a clear method for interpreting the many systems we are part of and the problems we face. Blending natural, social and cognitive sciences with dynamical systems theory, the book offers important systems approaches for anyone looking to manage these complex problems and the transition to sustainability\"--, Includes bibliographical references and index, Prologue : Six impossible things before breakfast -- Human ecology : an evolving discipline -- Water conflicts in the Snowy Mountains -- Thinking together -- System dynamics I : stocks and flows -- System dynamics II : feedback -- Systems and sustainability -- Towards a shared theoretical framework -- Paradigms : ideas that change the world -- Living well in the Anthropocene -- Consumers and global food systems -- Stewards of a full Earth

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Author

Dyball, Robert, Newell, Barry

Publisher

London ; New York, NY : Routledge

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781136271045

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Nature, Management, Sociology

Updated

2026-03-24