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 book provides an introduction and explanation of this field, and shows its application in the social and economic management of sustainability. It is written for readers at an undergraduate level and sould be useful for a wide range of undergraduate courses.
- ISBN10 1853833142
- ISBN13 9781853833144
- Publish Date 30 April 1996 (first published 1 January 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 December 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Earthscan Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 273
- Language English