书目名称 | Rural Sustainability |
副标题 | A Complex Systems Ap |
编辑 | Qing Tian |
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概述 | Provides a new conceptual and methodological framework for studying sustainability in less developed areas amid climate hazards.Dynamically integrates climate change research into frameworks for study |
丛书名称 | SpringerBriefs in Geography |
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描述 | .This volume applies the science of complexity to study coupled human-environment systems (CHES) and integrates ideas from the social sciences of climate change into a study of rural development amid flooding and urbanization in the Poyang Lake Region (PLR) of China. Author Qing Tian operationalizes the concept of sustainability and provides useful scientific analyses for sustainable development in less developed rural areas that are vulnerable to climatic hazards..The book uses a new sustainability framework that is centered on the concept of well-being to study rural development in PLR. The PLR study includes three major analyses: (1) a regional assessment of human well-being; (2) an empirical analysis of rural livelihoods; and (3) an agent-based computer model used to explore future rural development. These analyses provide a meaningful view of human development in the Poyang Lake Region and illustrate some of the complex local- and macro-level processes that shape the livelihoods of rural households in the dynamic process of urbanization. They generate useful insights about how government policy might effectively improve the well-being of rural households and promote sustainabl |
出版日期 | Book 2017 |
关键词 | Coupled human-environment systems (CHES); Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS); Flood hazards; Agent-based mo |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52685-0 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-52684-3 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-52685-0Series ISSN 2211-4165 Series E-ISSN 2211-4173 |
issn_series | 2211-4165 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |