Environmental systems studies : A macroscope for understanding and operating spaceship earth /

The environmental field is deep and wide. In the flood of information, how can people understand the underlying causes of what they hear about the environment from newspapers and television? This book was originally published in Japanese, with the aim of providing basic information about the ideas a...

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Autore principale: Imura, Hidefumi (Autore)
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Natura: eBook
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Tokyo Springer Japan 2013.
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Riassunto:The environmental field is deep and wide. In the flood of information, how can people understand the underlying causes of what they hear about the environment from newspapers and television? This book was originally published in Japanese, with the aim of providing basic information about the ideas and methods to see and understand the interconnection between nature and human activities from a systematic point of view. The author subsequently prepared an English version of the same material for use as a textbook for the Global Environmental Leaders Program at Nagoya University, where he taught many students from Asia and Europe. The book covers diverse environmental issues such as climatic change, biodiversity preservation, energy conservation, and resource recycling. Readers can learn common methods of analysis and thinking to identify the core essence of economic and ecological interdependence, to look at problems from an overarching perspective, and to consider countermeasures to be taken. 
Descrizione fisica:1 online resource (XII, 151 pages.) 27 illustrations., 22 illustrations. in colour. digital.
ISBN:9784431541264