Sustainability : an environmental science perspective

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 What are Sustainability and Sustainability Science? -- 1.2 Philosophy -- 1.3 Outline -- 1.4 An Optimistic Approach -- Chapter 2: Sustainability and Human Well-Being -- 2.1 Sustainability Components -- 2.2 Capital Supply and Demand -- 2.3 The Value of Ecosystem Services and Costs of Environmental Degradation -- 2.3.1 Forest Ecosystems and Deforestation -- 2.3.2 Measures of Environmental Degradation -- Web Resources -- Chapter 3: The Environmental ImPACT -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The ImPACT Identity -- 3.3 Biocapacity and the Ecological Footprint -- 3.4 Population -- 3.4.1 Problem: Exponential Growth of Population -- 3.4.2 Trends in Human Population -- 3.4.3 Solution: Stabilize Population -- 3.5 Consumption -- 3.5.1 Problem: Excessive Consumption and Materialism -- 3.5.2 Solution: Reduce Consumption and Waste -- 3.6 Technology -- 3.6.1 Problems -- 3.6.2 Solutions -- 3.7 Conclusions -- Web Resources -- Chapter 4: Risk, Resilience, and System Dynamics -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Security and Risk -- 4.3 Environmental Risks -- 4.4 Resilience and Socio-Ecological Systems -- 4.5 Systems Theory -- 4.6 Ecological Overshoot and Collapse -- 4.7 Examples of Collapse: Unsustainable Societies Past and Present -- 4.8 Case Study: Haiti -- 4.8.1 Local Problems -- 4.8.2 Local Solutions -- 4.9 A Preliminary Look at Global Solutions -- Homework Problems -- Chapter 5: Sustainable Development: How to Avoid Collapse and Build a Better Society -- 5.1 Growth versus Development -- 5.2 Properties of Sustainable Societies -- 5.3 Factors that Influence the Sustainability of Developing Countries -- 5.3.1 Poverty -- 5.3.2 Globalization -- 5.3.2.1 Effects on the Economy