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

• Autore principale: van der Leeuw, Sander (auth)
• Natura: Elettronico Capitolo di libro
• Lingua: inglese
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge University Press 2019
• Serie: Humanities
• Soggetti: Environmentalist thought & ideology; History: earliest times to present day; Environmental archaeology; Archaeological theory; Prehistoric archaeology; environmental and economic history; prehistory; sustainability studies
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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...