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

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Sander van der Leeuw (Arizona State University)

Social Sustainability, Past and Future

Undoing Unintended Consequences for the Earth's Survival

Sander van der Leeuw (Arizona State University)

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Cambridge University Press
13 February 2020

History: earliest times to present day; Archaeological theory; Prehistoric archaeology; Environmental archaeology; Environmentalist thought & ideology

Series: New Directions in Sustainability and Society

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.

By: Sander van der Leeuw (Arizona State University)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 215mm, Spine: 40mm
Weight: 700g
ISBN: 9781108498692
ISBN 10: 1108498698
Series: New Directions in Sustainability and Society
Pages: 350
Publication Date: 13 February 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sander van der Leeuw is Foundation Professor in the Schools of Sustainability and Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. Trained as an archaeologist and historian, he specializes in long-term interactions between humans and their environments and pioneering the application of the Complex Adaptive Systems approach to socio-environmental challenges, technology, and innovation. Van der Leeuw is the author and editor of eighteen books. In 2012, he was awarded the prize for 'Champion of the Earth for Science and Innovation' by the United Nations Environment Program.

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

'… an unequivocally masterful and absolutely brilliant description of dynamically complex and correlated cultural milieus and environmental systems as a cautionary tale for the ages.' R. G. Mendoza, Choice