1st Edition

Sustainability A Systems Approach

By Tony Clayton, Nicholas Radcliffe Copyright 1996
270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

The question of sustainability affects most areas of human activity. It is intrinsically complex and multi-disciplinary. Sustainable policies have to adapt to new knowledge and changing circumstances. Understanding sustainability and ways of achieving it have to involve an understanding of complex adaptive systems and general systems theory - a rapidly developing new branch of social studies.;This... Read more
General systems theory; complex adaptive systems; environmental factors; eco-system economics; integrating economic and environmental factors; economic policy instruments; discounting and investment; levels of sustainability; financing the transition; economic development and the environment; sociocultural factors; a systems approach to managing sustainability; assessing sustainability.

Biography

Tony Clayton, Nicholas Radcliffe