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Electronic Book
Author Burns, Michael.

Title Exploring Sustainability Science [electronic resource] : A Southern African Perspective.

Imprint Stellenbosch : African Sun Media, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (629 p.)
Note Description based upon print version of record.
Contents Intro -- Foreword -- Contributing Authors -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction -- Chapter 2 -- Complexity Theory as a General Framework for Sustainability Science -- Chapter 3 -- A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Social-Ecological Systems -- Chapter 4 -- Overcoming the Disciplinary Divide -- Chapter 5 -- From Conservation Biology to Conservation Science -- Chapter 6 -- Social Marketing as a Tool Implementation in Complex Social-Ecological Systems -- Chapter 7 -- Moving Beyond Modernism in Environmental Assessment and Management -- Chapter 8 -- Evaluation Beyond Valuation
Chapter 9 -- Changes in Water Availability and Demand within South Africa's Shared River Basins as Deteminants of Regional Social and Ecological Resilience -- Chapter 10 -- The Evolution of Water Governance in South Africa -- Chapter 11 -- Social Ecological Resilience in a Dry Environment -- Chapter 12 -- Applying a Resilience Framework in the Pursuit of Sustainable Land-use Development in the Little Karoo, South Africa -- Chapter 13 -- Driving Forces and Future Development Paths of Central Northern Namibia
Chapter 14 -- Complexity Based Modelling for Sustainability and Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems -- Chapter 15 -- From Promising Preaching to Piloting the Promise and Teaching what is Promising in the Planning Practice -- Chapter 16 -- Adaptive Co-Management under Resource-Poor Conditions -- Chapter 17 -- An Approach to Tracking whether Change is Sustainable in Complex Social-Ecological Systems -- Chapter 18 -- Learning to Learn for Social-Ecological Resilience -- References
Access Open Access EbpS
Subject Sustainable development -- Africa, Southern.
Environmental protection -- Africa, Southern.
Social ecology -- Africa, Southern.
Développement durable -- Afrique australe.
Environnement -- Protection -- Afrique australe.
Écologie sociale -- Afrique australe.
SCIENCE / Environmental Science
Environmental protection
Social ecology
Sustainable development
Southern Africa
Other Form: Print version: Burns, Michael Exploring Sustainability Science : A Southern African Perspective Stellenbosch : African Sun Media,c2008 9781920109516
ISBN 1920109560
9781920109561 (electronic bk.)
Standard No. AU@ 000069300924

 
    
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