Supply-Side Sustainability

Timothy F. H. Allen, Joseph A. Tainter, and Thomas W. Hoekstra

January, 2003
Paper, 440 pages, 44 line, 66 h/t
ISBN: 978-0-231-10587-3
$44.00 / £26.00

Cloth, 440 pages, 44 line, 66 h/t
ISBN: 978-0-231-10586-6
$87.50 / £51.50

Preface

Complexity, Problem Solving, and Social Sustainability

The Nature of the Problem

A Hierarchical Approach to Ecological Sustainability

Complexity and Social Sustainability: Framework

Complexity and Social Sustainability: Experience

The Criteria for Observation and Modeling

Biomes and the Biosphere

Ecosystems, Energy Flows, Evolution, and Emergence

Retrospect and Prospects

Related Subjects

• Ecology & Environmental Sciences

Series

• Complexity in Ecological Systems

About the Author

Timothy F. H. Allen is a professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Joseph Tainter is a project leader at the Rocky Mountain Research Station in the USDA Forest Service in Albuquerque. Thomas W. Hoekstra is director of the Inventory and Monitoring Institute of the National Resources Research Center of the USDA Forest Service.

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