The first formal world models -- Comparison between World3 scenarios and historical data -- Welcome to the real world! -- The evolution of economic thinking and system modelling techniques -- The ERRE model -- ERRE database, statistical validation and stress test scenarios.

"This volume focuses on the social, cultural, and ecological consequences of a political economy of energy. A political economy of energy holds that an enduring hallmark of the current context is a reorganization of human society toward energy extraction and production. Limits to Terrestrial...

"Sustainable Food System Assessment provides both practical and theoretical insights about the growing interest in and response to measuring food system sustainability. Bringing together research from the Global North and South, this book shares lessons learned, explores intended and actual...

Introduction -- PART 1. Energy demand and supply theories -- Theories underpinning electricity demand and infrastructure supply -- PART II. Historical dimensions of the Nigerian energy transition -- What really happened? The evolution of energy infrastructure provision (1800 - 2018) -- What...

Preface -- The Boom of Local Green Development in China -- China's Local Green Development Background -- A Run-Down City Regains Competence: Shanghai -- A Polluted City's Path Towards Low-Carbon Pioneering: Baoding -- A Poor County's Green Leap Forward: "Green Rising-Up" in Wuning -- A...

"This book answers the need for a contextual, long-term and interpretative analysis of risk from original sources. Risk has historically been a way of imagining what could happen in the future based on expert theories and predictions. This book explores this notion of 'managing the future' by...