Sustainable development
Susan Baker
- New York, N.Y. : Routledge, c2006.
- x, 215 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- The paradox of sustainable development: socio-ecological system, stability and change/Christian Rammel -- How do simple energy activities comprise complex behavior of life systems?: a conceptual systhesis and dec0mposition of the energy structure of life systems/Xi Huang -- Environmental management, organisational modes, and sustainable development/Philip Lawn -- Complexity, space and cognition: a puzzle for the new science of landscape/Almo Farina -- Two levels of research in ecology/Klaus G. Hering -- Community based indicators for sustainable development: a framework and an application in an Ethiopian community/Mohammad A. Jabbar, Abiye Astatke, Don Peden, Gugsa Abate and Tamrat Biri -- Sustainability evaluation: applying ecological principles and tools to natural resource management systems/S. Lopez-Ridaura, M.K. van Ittersum, O. Masera, P.A. Leffelaar, M. Astier, and H. van Keulen -- Nature and human interactions in nutrient recycling: on getting an equilibrium through material balance and principal-agent analyses/Ernst-August Nuppenau -- Index.