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

(Arizona State University)
  • Formatas: Hardback, 350 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 250x215x40 mm, weight: 700 g, Worked examples or Exercises; 33 Halftones, color; 72 Halftones, black and white
  • Serija: New Directions in Sustainability and Society
  • Išleidimo metai: 13-Feb-2020
  • Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1108498698
  • ISBN-13: 9781108498692
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Social Sustainability, Past and Future: Undoing Unintended Consequences for the Earth's SurvivalDidesnis paveikslėlis
  • Formatas: Hardback, 350 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 250x215x40 mm, weight: 700 g, Worked examples or Exercises; 33 Halftones, color; 72 Halftones, black and white
  • Serija: New Directions in Sustainability and Society
  • Išleidimo metai: 13-Feb-2020
  • Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1108498698
  • ISBN-13: 9781108498692
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For a professional, educated non-academic audience, this book asks how our societies were caught in a socio-economic dynamic causing the sustainability conundrum. It develops an original view of social evolution as the history of human information-processing, studying the past to understand the present in order to deal with the future. This title is also available as Open Access.

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 organization, technology and environmental impact. Beginning with the earliest human societies, Van der Leeuw links the distant past with the present in order to demonstrate how the information and communications technology revolution is undermining many of the institutional pillars on which contemporary societies have been constructed. An original view of social evolution as the history of human information-processing, his book shows how the past offers insight into the present, and can help us deal with the future. This title is also available as Open Access.

Recenzijos

' an unequivocally masterful and absolutely brilliant description of dynamically complex and correlated cultural milieus and environmental systems as a cautionary tale for the ages.' R. G. Mendoza, Choice

Daugiau informacijos

A novel, integrated approach to understanding long-term human history, viewing it as the long-term evolution of human information-processing. This title is also available as Open Access.
Preface xiii
PART I
1 How This Book Came About, What It Is, And What It Is Not
3(12)
Introduction
3(4)
Stepping Stones
7(2)
The Book: What It Is and What It Is Not
9(6)
2 Defining The Challenge
15(15)
Background
15(10)
Six Fundamental Points
25(5)
3 Science And Society
30(20)
Introduction
30(2)
The Great Wall of Dualism
32(3)
Rationalism and Empiricism
35(1)
The Royal Society and the Academies
36(2)
The Emergence of the Life Sciences and Ecology
38(3)
The Founding of the Modern Universities and the Emergence of Disciplines
41(3)
The Instrumentalization of Science
44(4)
Regaining Trust
48(2)
4 Transdisciplinary For And Against
50(17)
Introduction
50(3)
Interdisciplinarity
53(1)
Multidisciplinarity Results in a Bee's Eye View
54(3)
Transdisciplinarity, Intellectual Fusion, and Linking Science and Practice
57(1)
Barriers to Practicing Transdisciplinary Science
58(5)
Competencies for Transdisciplinary Research
63(4)
5 The Importance Of A Long-Term Perspective
67(12)
Looking Far Back into the Past
67(2)
The Importance of Slow Dynamics
69(3)
We Need to Know the Healthy State of Our Planet
72(1)
The Importance of Second-Order Change
73(4)
The Accumulation of Unintended Consequences
77(1)
Summary
78(1)
6 Looking Forward To The Future
79(21)
Introduction
79(2)
Past Perspectives on the Future
81(1)
Analogue and Evolutionary Approaches to Understanding Past and Future
81(2)
Ex Post vs. Ex Ante Perspectives
83(2)
The Role of Modeling
85(1)
Why Model?
86(2)
Support Models and Process Models
88(2)
Challenges to Integrated Modeling of Socioenvironmental Dynamics
90(6)
Scenario Building
96(4)
7 The Role Of The Complex (Adaptive) Systems Approach
100(21)
Introduction
100(1)
Systems Science
100(2)
Complex Systems
102(1)
The Flow Is the Structure
103(1)
Structural Transformation
103(2)
History and Unpredictability
105(2)
Chaotic Dynamics and Emergent Behavior
107(1)
Diversity and Self-Reinforcing Mechanisms
108(1)
Focus on Relations and Networks
109(1)
Deterministic Chaos
110(1)
Attractors
111(2)
Multi-Scalarity
113(1)
Occam's Razor
114(1)
Some Epistemological Implications
115(6)
PART II
8 An Outline Of Human Socioenvironmental Coevolution
121(23)
Introduction
121(1)
Human Information Processing Is at the Core
122(3)
The Biological Evolution of the Human Brain
125(7)
The Innovation Explosion: Mastering Matter and Learning How to Put the Brain to Use
132(3)
The First Villages, Agriculture and Herding
135(2)
The First Towns
137(2)
The First Empires
139(1)
The Roman Republic and Empire
139(3)
Conclusion
142(2)
9 Social Systems As Self-Organizing, Dissipative Information-Flow Structures
144(13)
Introduction
144(1)
Social Systems as Dissipative Structures
145(1)
Perception, Cognition, and Learning
146(3)
Communication: The Spread of Knowledge
149(3)
Social Systems as Open Systems
152(1)
Transitions in Social Systems as Dissipative Structures
152(3)
Conclusion
155(2)
10 Solutions Always Cause Problems
157(23)
Introduction
157(1)
The Pre- and Proto-History of the Rhine Delta
158(1)
The Middle Ages: Keeping the Land Dry Leads to the Hoogheemraadschap Rijnland
159(3)
The Early Modern Period: Land Is Turned into Water
162(3)
The "Golden Era": Water Is Again Transformed into Land
165(4)
Regaining Lost Ground
169(4)
The Aftermath
173(1)
Summary and Conclusion
174(6)
11 Transitions In The Organization Of Human Societies
180(33)
Introduction
180(1)
Information Processing and Social Control
181(5)
Phase Transitions in the Organization of Communication
186(4)
Modes of Communication in Early Societies
190(3)
Hierarchical, Distributed, and Heterarchical Systems
193(2)
Information Diffusion in Complex Hierarchical and Distributed Systems
195(8)
Conclusion
203(1)
Appendix A
204(9)
12 Novelty, Invention, Change
213(24)
Introduction
213(1)
Technology as "Tools and Ways to Do Things"
214(1)
Objects and Ideas
215(2)
The Presence and Absence of Change
217(1)
Perspectives on Invention
218(1)
Invention in Economics
219(8)
Open Questions
227(1)
The Inventor and the Context: Niche Construction
228(4)
Creation, Perception, Cognition, and Category Identification
232(1)
How Are Technical Traditions Anchored?
233(2)
The Locus of Invention
235(2)
13 An Illustration Of The Invention Process And Its Implications For Societal Information Processing
237(26)
Introduction
237(1)
The Niche in Which the Potter Operates
237(10)
Challenges Limit Products
247(1)
Comparing Two Pottery-Making Traditions in This Light
248(1)
Using the Paddle and Anvil on Negros Oriental, Philippines
249(6)
Mold-Shaping in Michoacan, Mexico
255(2)
Some Lessons
257(2)
The Role of Artifacts and Technology in Society
259(4)
14 Modeling The Dynamics Of Socioenvironmental Transitions
263(24)
Introduction
263(1)
Second-Order Dynamics
264(1)
Mobile and Early Sedentary Societies
265(1)
The Emergence of Hierarchies
266(1)
The First Bifurcation
267(1)
The Second Bifurcation
268(1)
The Third Bifurcation
269(1)
The Fourth Bifurcation
270(1)
Summary and Conclusion
271(1)
Appendix B
272(15)
PART III
15 The Rise Of The West As A Globally Powered Flow Structure
287(17)
Introduction
287(1)
The Rise of Western Europe 600-1900
287(10)
The Changing Roles of Government and Business
297(2)
Crises of the Twentieth Century
299(2)
Conclusion
301(3)
16 Are We Reaching A Global Societal "Tipping Point"?
304(35)
The Present Conundrum
304(27)
A Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective on "Crises"
331(2)
Accumulation of Unexpected Consequences
333(6)
17 Not An Ordinary Tipping Point
339(23)
Introduction
339(2)
The Acceleration of Invention and Innovation
341(1)
The Acceleration in Information Processing
342(1)
The Information Explosion
343(4)
Changing Relationships between Society and Space
347(2)
The Impact of ICT on Time and Its Societal Management
349(1)
Exploding Connectivity among Tools for Thought and Action
350(1)
Reduction of Control over Information Processing
351(1)
Blurring the Boundary between Information and Noise
352(2)
A Society's Value Space Determines Signals and Noise
354(1)
The Dynamics of Value Spaces
355(3)
Wealth as the Predominant Global Metric
358(2)
Our Western Value Space Seems to Be Reaching a Boundary
360(2)
18 Our Fragmenting World
362(27)
Introduction
362(1)
The Race of the Red Queen
363(1)
The Growing Dissolution of Our Global Governance System
364(3)
The Spectacularization of Experience
367(2)
Democracy under Pressure
369(3)
The Deconstruction of Communities
372(3)
The Transformation of Globalization
375(1)
The Emergence of the Developing World
376(2)
Big Data and Individuation
378(2)
Automation and Artificial Intelligence
380(2)
From Production to Distribution
382(1)
Our Perception of the World
383(2)
How These Trends Are Developing
385(2)
Conclusion
387(2)
19 Is There A Way Out?
389(21)
Introduction
389(1)
Individuals Must Reengage in the Management of Our Society
390(1)
Designing a Plausible and Desirable Future
391(4)
The Role of Narratives
395(1)
Reconstructing Communities
396(3)
The Future Role and Management of Cities
399(3)
Dealing with the Acceleration in Information Processing
402(4)
Our Role as Scientists in the Community
406(4)
20 "Green Growth"?
410(33)
Introduction
410(1)
Steady-State Economics
411(4)
Sustainable Development Goals
415(4)
Toward a Mindset Change
419(3)
Pluri-Polarity
422(1)
Possible Future Roles for ICT
423(5)
The New World: How Might the ICT Revolution Impact on Society?
428(12)
Conclusion
440(3)
21 Conclusion
443(21)
What Is the Message Thus Far?
443(11)
What Are the Chances of Success?
454(2)
Breaking the Fundamental Feedback Loop of Coevolution
456(6)
Decentralization, Disruption, and Chaos
462(2)
Bibliography 464(29)
Index 493
Sander van der Leeuw is Foundation Professor in the Schools of Sustainability and Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. Trained as an archaeologist and historian, he specializes in long-term interactions between humans and their environments and pioneering the application of the Complex Adaptive Systems approach to socio-environmental challenges, technology, and innovation. Van der Leeuw is the author and editor of eighteen books. In 2012, he was awarded the prize for 'Champion of the Earth for Science and Innovation' by the United Nations Environment Program.