A World In Transition

Humankind and Nature : The Green Book of "Einstein Meets Magritte"

By: Diederik Aerts (Editor), Jan Broekaert (Editor), Willy Weyns (Editor)

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Hardcover | 31 August 1999

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A World in Transition, Humankind and Nature is appropriately entitled after its aim for an intrinsic property of reality: change.
Of major concern, in this era of transformation, is the extensive and profound interaction of humankind with nature. The global-scale social and technological project of humankind definitely involves a myriad of changes of the ecosphere. This book develops, from the call for an interdisciplinary synthesis and respect of plurality, acknowledging the evolving scientific truth, to the need for an integrated but inevitably provisional worldview.
Contributors from different parts of the world focus on four modes of change: (i) Social change and the individual condition, (ii) Complex evolution and fundamental emergent transformations, (iii) Ecological transformation and responsibility inquiries, (iv) The economic-ecological and socio-technical equilibria.
Primarily concerned with the deep transformations of humankind and of the relationship between humans and nature, it is addressed to a broad and thinking public that wants to be kept informed.

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Complex Evolution and Fundamental Emergent Transformations
Supra-human Institutions and the Human Condition
Stability, Turbulence, Chaos? Systems, Analogies and Metaphors, and Change in Contemporary World Politics
Confronting Health Transition Complexity
Non-natural, Cultural Universals Exist
Communication: the Key to Understanding the Very Nature of `Life', `Death' and the Force Driving Evolution
Ecological Transformation and Responsibility Inquiries
Science and Environmental Law
The Perspectives of Truth Pluralism
Strength and Weakness SWOT Analysis of Humankind to Overcome Global Ecological Challenges
And You, My Mountain Will You Never Walk Towards Me?
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The Economic-Ecological and Socio-Technical Equilibria
Rural Development Knowledge: Indigenous, Necessary, Appropriate
The Predicament of Ecological-Economic Valuation and the need for Linkage through an Institutional Framework
The Post-Industrial Society: What Future are we Preparing?
Scarcity versus Fertility Two Ways of Thinking about Economy
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