{"product_id":"sustainability-or-collapse-robert-costanza-9780262515979","title":"Sustainability or Collapse?: An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003eScholars from a range of disciplines develop an integrated human and environmental history over millennial, centennial, and decadal time scales and make projections for the future.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuman history, as written traditionally, leaves out the important ecological and climate context of historical events. But the capability to integrate the history of human beings with the natural history of the Earth now exists, and we are finding that human-environmental systems are intimately linked in ways we are only beginning to appreciate. In \u003ci\u003eSustainability or Collapse?\u003c\/i\u003e, researchers from a range of scholarly disciplines develop an integrated human and environmental history over millennial, centennial, and decadal time scales and make projections for the future. The contributors focus on the human-environment interactions that have shaped historical forces since ancient times and discuss such key methodological issues as data quality. Topics highlighted include the political ecology of the Mayans; the effect of climate on the Roman Empire; the \"revolutionary weather\" of El Ni from 1788 to 1795; twentieth-century social, economic, and political forces in environmental change; scenarios for the future; and the accuracy of such past forecasts as The Limits to Growth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Costanza\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262515970\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262515979\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/21\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.69h x 5.85w x 1.11d","brand":"Robert Costanza","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44566867017983,"sku":"9780262515979","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_72ee7c16-c6f4-441a-8037-e8eb3ed3eeea.jpg?v=1701374799","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sustainability-or-collapse-robert-costanza-9780262515979","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}