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Mapping Global Dynamics
Follows a truly transdisciplinary approach.
Starts out with quantitative science and reaches metatheory.
Adds dynamic patterns to the concept of global change.
Combines approaches from technology, environment, globalisation and ontology - all from one author.
Draws philosophical conclusions from global modelling results.
Revolutionises the concept of space.
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Objectives Leading to a Vision: an Introduction
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Conclusions for Global Dynamics
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About this book
This book asks: What are the most suitable “mapping strategies” for detecting patterns of global dynamics?
It adopts a spatial perspective when trying to understand “Global Dynamics” – and sets out to revolutionise the concept of space as such. Spatial views – on levels of increasing abstraction, reflection and self-organisation – are developed along eight case studies including air emissions, environmental radioactivity, deforestation, energy from biomass, land use change, food supply, water quality and cooperative interdisciplinary learning for global change.
This book’s conceptual innovation consists in performing a transformation from “space & time” into “functional state space & evolutionary time” in order to better recognise the structural patterns of long-term global dynamics.
A transdisciplinary readership in academia – including geography, philosophy, economics, global change and future research – that is interested in enlarging scientific concepts beyond classical borders – would be most welcome!
Keywords
- Global dynamics
- Evolutionary structure-building
- Transdisciplinary geography
- Evolutionary self-construction
- Dynamic patterns
- climate change impacts
Authors and Affiliations
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Institute for Geographic Information Science, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Salzburg, Austria
Gilbert Ahamer
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mapping Global Dynamics
Book Subtitle: Geographic Perspectives from Local Pollution to Global Evolution
Authors: Gilbert Ahamer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51704-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51702-5Published: 20 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51704-9Published: 19 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLII, 436
Number of Illustrations: 401 b/w illustrations, 169 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainability, Climate Sciences, Economic Geography, Human Geography, Globalization, Renewable Energy