Complexity has radically changed human understanding of the world environment and
continues challenging our best scientific theories. In a rapidly changing research landscape …

Why are living things alive? As a theoretical biologist, Robert Rosen saw this as the most
fundamental of all questions-and yet it had never been answered satisfactorily by science …

Niklas Luhmann is widely recognized as one of the most original thinkers in the social
sciences today. This major new work further develops the theories of the author by offering a …

1. Introduzione Con l'avvento delle fonti energetiche fossili l'uomo ha potuto usare quantità
crescenti di energia. Ciò ha consentito di movimentare e trasformare quantità crescenti di …

In order to address contemporary issues economics and decision sciences need to expand
their empirical relevance by introducing more and more realistic (thus more complex) …

The definitive reference in its field, Ecological Risk Assessment, Second Edition details the
latest advances in science and practice. In the fourteen years since the publication of the …

This book brings important new dimensions to the interface between contemporary Western
science and ancient Eastern wisdom. Here for the first time the concepts and insights of …

Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation for a Sustainable Economy Page 1 Giuseppe Munda Social
Multi-Criteria Evaluation for a Sustainable Economy Page 2 Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation for a …

The Jevons Paradox , which was first expressed in 1865 by William Stanley Jevons in
relation to use of coal, states that an increase in efficiency in using a resource leads to …

It is increasingly evident that the conventional scientific approach to economic processes
and related sustainability issues is seriously flawed. No economist predicted the current …