Urban Galapagos Transition to Sustainability in Complex Adaptive Systems

Urban Galapagos Transition to Sustainability in Complex Adaptive Systems / edited by Thomas Kvan, Justyna Karakiewicz.

This book addresses the future of urbanisation on the Galapagos Islands from a systems, governance and design perspective with the competing parameters of liveability, economic and ecological, using the Galapagos as a laboratory for the theoretical and postulative understanding of evolving settlemen...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kvan, Thomas (Editor), Karakiewicz, Justyna (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Sustainable development.
Urban geography.
Urban ecology (Biology).
Ecosystems.
Nature conservation.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
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Table of Contents:
  • 1.Complexity and consequence in coupled natural urban systems
  • Section 1.The Galapagos as a living laboratory
  • 2.The Galapagos Urban Context
  • 3.Understanding Coupled Urban-Natural Dynamics as the Key to Sustainability: The Example of the Galapagos
  • 4.Scales and Transformative Change: Transitions in the Galápagos
  • Section 2.Socio-ecological models
  • 5.Demographics of Change: Modelling the Transition of Fishers to Tourism in the Galapagos Islands
  • 6.Socio ecological systems and the management of the natural resources in the Galapagos
  • Section 3.Models of change
  • 7.A Model-Based Approach to Study the Tourism Sustainability in an Island Environment: The Case of Galapagos Islands
  • 8.Towards Urban Self-Sufficiency in the Galapagos Islands
  • 9.Avoiding the colour grey: parametrising CAS to incorporate reactive scripting
  • 10.Reflections.

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