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Part of the book series: Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science, Nature, Art, Human Action and Society (EMMA, volume 5)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Complex Evolution and Fundamental Emergent Transformations
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Rural Economic-Ecological and Socio-Technical Equilibria
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Back Matter
About this book
Of major concern, in this era of transformation, is the extensive and profound interaction of humankind with nature. The global-scale social and technological project of humankind definitely involves a myriad of changes of the ecosphere. This book develops, from the call for an interdisciplinary synthesis and respect of plurality, acknowledging the evolving scientific truth, to the need for an integrated but inevitably provisional worldview.
Contributors from different parts of the world focus on four modes of change: (i) Social change and the individual condition, (ii) Complex evolution and fundamental emergent transformations, (iii) Ecological transformation and responsibility inquiries, (iv) The economic-ecological and socio-technical equilibria.
Primarily concerned with the deep transformations of humankind and of the relationship between humans and nature, it is addressed to a broad and thinking public that wants to be kept informed.
Editors and Affiliations
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Brussels Free University, Belgium
Diederik Aerts, Jan Broekaert, Willy Weyns
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A World In Transition: Humankind and Nature
Book Subtitle: The Green Book of “Einstein Meets Magritte”
Editors: Diederik Aerts, Jan Broekaert, Willy Weyns
Series Title: Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science, Nature, Art, Human Action and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0856-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1999
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-5761-2Published: 31 August 1999
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-3741-9Published: 28 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0856-3Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 287
Topics: Environmental Management, Ethics, Sociology, general, Ecology