Global Overshoot Contemplating the World's Converging Problems /

Global Overshoot is a multidisciplinary analysis (including history and pre-history) from an ecological and evolutionary perspective of the contemporary world system.  This book compares and critiques attitudes held by people with different world views to the hypothetical prospect of large widesprea...

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Main Author: cocks, doug. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6265-1
Table of Contents:
  • The Deep Past: A Story of Pervasive Change
  • Stages in the Evolution of Modern Humans
  • Emergence and Evolution of Complex Societies
  • The Road to High Complexity
  • Confronting GLobal Overshoot
  • Ecohumanism and other Stories
  • Index.