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Tables of Contents for Supply-Side Sustainability
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
The Nature of the Problem
1
54
A New Global System
1
8
Economics, Society, and Ecology
9
3
Comprehending Sustainability
12
8
Manage Systems, Not Outputs
14
2
Manage Contexts
16
3
Supply What Systems Need
19
1
Let the Ecological System Subsidize Management
19
1
Understand Problem Solving
20
1
Sustainability in a Social Context
20
7
Paying for Sustainability
27
1
Maintaining the Political Context
28
1
The Ecology of Sustainability
29
1
Driven Between Disciplines by Technology
29
4
Prediction in Large Systems
33
10
Standard Practice for Different Reasons
43
6
Social and Biogeophysical Integration
49
6
I. COMPLEXITY, PROBLEM SOLVING, AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
Complexity and Social Sustainability: Framework
55
44
Monitoring, Predicting, and Problem Solving
56
5
Complexity and Problem Solving
61
6
Producing Resources
67
15
Resources, Intensification, and Sustainability
82
1
Producing Knowledge
83
12
Summary and Implications for Sustainability
95
4
Complexity and Social Sustainability: Experience
99
68
Collapse of the Western Roman Empire
101
21
Understanding Roman Unsustainability
121
1
The Early Byzantine Recovery
122
14
Collapse of the Abbasid Caliphate
136
4
Development of Modern Europe
140
9
Consequences of European Wars
148
1
Implications for Sustainability
149
12
Some Characteristics of Sustainability
161
6
II. A HIERARCHICAL APPROACH TO ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY
The Criteria for Observation and Modeling
167
117
The Organism
171
26
Sustainig the Umwelt
174
2
Habits and Familiar Settings
176
2
Rare and Endangered Umwelts
178
5
Stress and Unmet Umwelts
183
2
The Human Umwelt and Sustainability of Other Species
185
4
Living Systems Theory
189
3
Minimal Viable Systems
192
2
Organisms as Fragile Systems
194
3
The Landscape
197
38
Historical Landscapes in Context
199
26
Implications of Landscapes in a Human Context
225
2
Policy Implications on Landscapes
227
4
Landscapes Cast the Problem
231
4
The Population
235
16
Sustainable Populations
236
3
Sustainability in Aquatic Populations
239
6
Sustainability and Human Populations
245
1
Modern Conservation Biology
246
2
Hierachical Structure in Populations: Metapopulations
248
3
The Community
251
31
Community as Opposed to Population
253
6
Forest Stand Simulators: Community-Population Hybrids
259
2
Dynamics of the General Community Model
261
9
Taking the Community Model Through Scale Changes
270
5
Implications for Sustainability
275
7
Conclusion
282
2
Biomes and the Biosphere
284
36
The Biome Criterion
289
1
Biomes and Climate Change
289
4
Sustainability of Agricultural Systems as Biomes
293
7
Lack of Sustainability in Paleobiomes
300
15
Global Ecology
315
5
Ecosystems, Energy Flows, Evolution, and Emergence
320
60
Definition of Ecosystem
322
5
The Essential Dichotomy in Biology
327
1
The Duality of Evolution and Thermodynamics
328
6
A Primer on the Mechanics of Thermodynamic Emergence
334
4
The Thermodynamics of Ecosystems
338
5
Experiments on the Generative Function
343
8
Observations on Ecosystems and Sustainability
351
1
Evolution, Emergence, and Diminishing Returns
352
18
Implications for the Contemporary Period
359
11
Supply-Side Sustainability and Resource Management Scale
370
8
Conclusion
378
2
Retrospect and Prospects
380
47
Sustainability and Problem Solving
381
8
Unsustainable Problem Solving in Natural Resource Management
382
3
Sustainable Problem Solving: Managing Systems
385
3
Technological Optimism and Sustainability
388
1
Models of Sustainable and Unsustainable Futures
389
3
Management and Basic Research
392
8
Energy Subsidies
400
12
Societal Demands
412
6
Ecosystems, Complex Societies, and Self-reflective Science
418
9
References
427
24
Index
451