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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
December 2019
Print publication year:
2020
Online ISBN:
9781108595247
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108595247
Creative Commons:
Creative Common License - CC Creative Common License - BY Creative Common License - NC Creative Common License - SA
This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses
Subjects:
Prehistory, Environmental History, Archaeology: General Interest, History, Archaeology, Earth and Environmental Science: General Interest
Series:
New Directions in Sustainability and Society
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In this book, Sander Van der Leeuw examines how the modern world has been caught in a socio-economic dynamic that has generated the conundrum of sustainability. Combining the methods of social science and complex systems science, he explores how western, developed nations have globalized their world view and how that view has led to the sustainability challenges we are now facing. Its central theme is the co-evolution of cognition, demography, social organization, technology and environmental impact. Beginning with the earliest human societies, Van der Leeuw links the distant past with the present in order to demonstrate how the information and communications technology revolution is undermining many of the institutional pillars on which contemporary societies have been constructed. An original view of social evolution as the history of human information-processing, his book shows how the past offers insight into the present, and can help us deal with the future. This title is also available as Open Access.

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‘… an unequivocally masterful and absolutely brilliant description of dynamically complex and correlated cultural milieus and environmental systems as a cautionary tale for the ages.’

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Contents
  • 16 - Are We Reaching a Global Societal “Tipping Point”?
    pp 304-338
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  • 18 - Our Fragmenting World
    pp 362-388
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  • 21 - Conclusion
    pp 443-463
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  • Index
    pp 493-516
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