This book offers an approach for multi-scale, integrated assessment of land use, water, energy, food, populations and environmental resources. The approach is based in resource accounting, providing insights through exploring the relationships between flows of goods, services, and materials, and...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Historical Overview of the Jevons Paradox in the Literature -- 3 The Jevons Paradox: The Evolution of Complex Adaptive Systems and the Challenge for...

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; Foreword; 1 Introduction; 2 Historical Overview of the Jevons Paradox in the Literature; 3 The Jevons Paradox: The Evolution of Complex Adaptive Systems and the Challenge for Scientific Analysis; 4 Empirical...

"Some 10 million species of plants, animals, and microbes are thought to inhabit the earth, but so far only about 1.5 million of these have been identified. A mere 15 of the approximately 250,000 known plant species provide the world's human population with about 90 percent of its food.1 These...