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Book reviews tagged with ‘Complexity’
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The Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Managing for Sustainability
Theme: Sustainability
The Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Ma
naging for Sustainability
David Waltner-Toews, James J. Kay and Nina-Marie E. Lister (eds.)
New York: Columbia University Pressds
2008, 383 pages.
A copy of The Ecosystem Approach should be placed on the desk of every engineer, manager, environmentalist, politician and teacher. It is one of the first comprehensive efforts to discuss environmental management and sustainability in the interrelated fields of complexity and post-normal science (science where the facts are uncertain, the values are in dispute, the stakes are high and there is a sense of urgency – think climate change)… [Click here to read more!]
