Science of Sustainable Development: Local Livelihoods and the Global Environment(Biological Conservation, Restoration & Sustainability S)

Series: Biological Conservation, Restoration & Sustainability S

Science faces major challenges in tackling the interlinked problems of poverty and environmental sustainability. This book calls for a restructuring of our present arrangements to achieve integrated natural resource management--integration across scales, system components, disciplines and knowledge types. It advocates the necessity of modelling, multi-scale analysis and action research, institutio