Global Overshoot Contemplating the World's Converging Problems /

• Main Author: Cocks, Doug. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Environmental sciences.; Sustainable development.; Human Geography.; Environment.; Environment, general.; Sustainable Development.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6265-1

Global Overshoot is�a multidisciplinary analysis (including history and pre-history) from an ecological and evolutionary perspective of the contemporary world system.� This book compares and critiques attitudes held by people with different world views to the hypothetical prospect of large widesprea...

Table of Contents:

• The Deep Past: A Story of Pervasive Change
• Stages in the Evolution of Modern Humans
• Emergence and Evolution of Complex Societies
• The Road to High Complexity
• Confronting GLobal Overshoot
• Ecohumanism and other Stories
• Index.