Sustainable Human–Nature Relations

Environmental Scholarship, Economic Evaluation, Urban Strategies

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-15-3051-7 (ISBN)

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This book addresses sustainability thinking and the bigger picture, by taking into consideration how and from where contemporary schools of thought emerged approximately a quarter-century ago. Evidence from the literature illustrates a number of key concepts and techniques that have been tested and continue to be tested, within various multi-disciplinary fields, on societal functionality. Research into sustainable societies needs to be sound, ethical, and creative. A cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary examination of challenges and strategies is used to interlink sustainability thinking and human-nature relations. With an ever-growing number of people now concentrated within urban areas, providing not only environmental quality and livable space, but also security and resilient urban systems, is becoming increasingly important. This urbanization trend has overlapped with environmental degradation, consumption of natural resources, habitat loss, and overall ecosystem change. Consequently, the goal is for cleaner, safer societies – with higher standards of living – to excel in support of current and future generational communities. The book tackles these challenges by integrating environmental scholarship, economic evaluation, and urban strategies under one umbrella of thought. The relational paradigms presented include examples that correlate developed and developing countries, socioeconomics and community development, and governance of knowledge and education. As such, the book argues, furthering of knowhow should be accessible and shared in order to achieve maximum innovation and benefit. Sustainability thinking, after all, is a metric for intrinsic human-nature relations in terms of past performance, present development, and future goals. This book discusses this metric and offers novel approaches to growing societies and what we can do next.

Dr. Cirella completed his Ph.D. at Griffith University, Australia. He is currently a Professor at the University of Gdansk, Poland, and also the Founder of the Polo Centre of Sustainability. His research interests are in the areas of sustainable development, consumption, globalisation and resources, sustainability indices and trends, human geography, and interdisciplinary societal studies.

Human-nature relations: The unwanted filibuster.- Sociocultural carrying capacity: Impact of population growth in Rapa Nui.- Territorial integration of foreigners: Social sustainability of host societies.- Sustainable land reforms and irregular migration management.- Role of the international ecological network, Emerald, in the Western Balkans’ protected areas.- How efficient is urban land speculation?.- Land use change model comparison: Mae Sot Special Economic Zone.- Cohesion policy for Europe 2020.- Evaluating green infrastructure via unmanned aerial systems and optical imagery indices.- Urban sustainability: Integrating ecology in city design and planning.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.04.2021
Reihe/Serie	Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements
Zusatzinfo	69 Illustrations, color; 5 Illustrations, black and white; XXVI, 240 p. 74 illus., 69 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	981-15-3051-3 / 9811530513
ISBN-13	978-981-15-3051-7 / 9789811530517
Zustand	Neuware