Description
A complete account of evolutionary thought in the social, environmental and policy sciences, creating bridges with biology.
About the Author
Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh is ICREA Professor at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (2007-present), and full Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1997-present). He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions and served on the Netherlands' Energy Council. He is cited more than 17,000 times in Google Scholar, and received the Royal/Shell Prize 2002, IEC's Sant Jordi Environmental Prize 2011 and an ERC Advanced Grant.
Reviews
'This is a timely book, helping us to move out of equilibrium-based approaches that served well in the twentieth century towards a view of the contemporary world as complex, dynamic, emergent and evolutionary. Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh invites the reader into an exciting adventure applying an evolutionary approach to social, environmental and policy sciences. In an impressive manner, the book collects theoretical and empirical insights from diverse fields on the role of evolutionary thinking in understanding and acting on all kinds of real-world complex systems and their dynamics. But the book is more than a comprehensive synthesis, it is visionary and talks about evolutionary policies and transitions towards sustainability, innovations to curb climate change, reconnecting to the biosphere, as well as possible evolutionary futures for the human population. Human Evolution beyond Biology and Culture is exciting, inspiring and forward looking. Highly recommended!' Carl Folke, Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden
'Van den Bergh's book is an outstanding, long-missing synthesis of current strands of evolutionary theorizing in the natural, social and cultural sciences. It fascinates the reader by its thought-provoking claim of a unity of the evolutionary approach across disciplinary boundaries and by the practical implications derived for better understanding environmental problems, climate change, economic development, technology evolution and many more present day topics.' Ulrich Witt, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Germany
Book Information
ISBN 9781108456883
Author Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh
Format Paperback
Page Count 564
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 1140g
Dimensions(mm) 245mm * 174mm * 27mm