Social Sustainability, Past and Future: Undoing Unintended Consequences for the Earth's Survival

by Sander van der Leeuw

In this book, Sander Van der Leeuw examines how the modern world has been caught in a socio-economic dynamic that has generated the conundrum of sustainability. Combining the methods of social science and complex systems science, he explores how western, developed nations have globalized their world view and how that view has led to the sustainability challenges we are now facing. Its central theme is the co-evolution of cognition, demography, social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108498698
• ISBN13: 9781108498692
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"