Governance of Earth systems:science and its uses
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Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan,
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Publisher Address: | Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] New York |
Publication Dates: | 2010. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Global issues series |
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Carrier Form: | xiii, 243 p.: ; 23 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780230237704 (alk. paper) 0230237703 (alk. paper) |
Index Number: | X |
CLC: | X-01 |
Call Number: | X-01/B662-1 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-236) and index. Introduction : ecological imagination and global society -- Science and policy -- Environmental crisis and the contexts of science -- From systems complexity to decisional uncertainty -- The Earth theory tradition -- Geosphere-atmosphere-biosphere integration -- Governance challenges -- Theorizing governance and community -- Structures of environmental governance -- Biological diversity -- Climate change -- Geological hazards -- Governance, science, and Earth systems. |