Social Sustainability, Past and Future Undoing Unintended Consequences for the Earth's Survival

• Main Author: van der Leeuw, Sander (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2019
• Series: Humanities
• Subjects: Environmentalist thought & ideology; History: earliest times to present day; Environmental archaeology; Archaeological theory; Prehistoric archaeology; environmental and economic history; prehistory; sustainability studies
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

For a professional, educated non-academic audience, this book asks how our societies were caught in a socio-economic dynamic causing the sustainability conundrum. It develops an original view of social evolution as the history of human information-processing, studying the past to understand the pres...