Coviability of Social and Ecological Systems: Reconnecting Mankind to the Biosphere in an Era of Global Change: Vol. 2: Coviability Questioned by a Di [Hardcover]

This second volume is the work of more than 55 authors from 15 different disciplines and includes complex systems science which studies the viability of components, and also the study of empirical situations. As readers will discover, the coviability of social and ecological systems is based on the contradiction between humanity, which adopts finalized objectives, and the biosphere, which refers to a ecological functions. We see how concrete situations shed light on the coviabilitys determinants, and in this book the very nature of the coviability, presented as a concept-paradigm, is defined in a transversal and ontological ways.

By adopting a systemic approach, without advocating any economic dogma (such as development) or dichotomizing between humans and nature, while emphasizing what is relevant to humans and what is not, this work neutrally contextualizes mans place in the biosphere. It offers a new mode of thinking and positioning of the ecological imperative, and will appeal to all those working with social and ecological systems.

1.Preview.- Chapter 28 : The future of oases in North Africa through the prism of a systemic approach: towards which type of viability and coviability?.- 3. Chapter 29 : Landscape dynamics and the control of infectious diseases : The question of the integration of health into coviability.- 4. Chapter 30 : A history of loss in coviability between Nature and Society: the Evolution of Vegetative Landscapes in the Lesser Antilles from the 17th to the 20^th century.- 5. Chapter 31 : Territorialized tourism systems and coviability: Theory and lessons learned from a few case studies.- 6. Chapter 32 : Looking for coviability between ecological systems and renewable energy production sites.- 7. Chapter 33 : A mathematical approach to agroecosystem coviability.- 8. Chapter 34 : Computer exploration of factors involved in the viability of a fisherylƒè