Bøger i Sustainability science series serien

Sustainability science is a new academic discipline emerging in response to threatened sustainability of the global environment. This volume offers diverse approaches to the development of a transdisciplinary perspective that embraces the natural, social, and human sciences in the quest for a sustainable society.

Focuses on society at the local and regional levels in a scenario where human beings coexist harmoniously with nature. This title examines this ideal society in terms of the relationships between villages or towns and their natural environment and how they can achieve independence while facing pressures toward centralization and globalization.