Social complexity and sustainability

By J. Tainter. 2006

232 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Management Science and Operations Research

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f6aaba120cad1e03d16e49f451360f9bd46b027b

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In Environmental Engineering

1. Erle C. Ellis
2. L. Seghezzo

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. Erle C. Ellis
2. L. Seghezzo

In Management Science and Operations Research

1. Erle C. Ellis
2. L. Seghezzo

Citations in the corpus

• The five dimensions of sustainability (2009, background): “The importance of time in the complexities associated with problem solving is also acknowledged (Tainter 2006).”
• Socio‐hydrology: Use‐inspired water sustainability science for the Anthropocene (2014, unknown): “There is a long history of scholarship on the role of water in social and environmental changes [Maass et al., 1962; Wescoat, 2000; Tainter, 2006].”
• Sustainability Design and Software: The Karlskrona Manifesto (2015, background): “Tainter points out we need to ask: (i) Sustain what? (ii) For whom? (iii) How long? (iv) At what cost? [10]”
• Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere (2015, background): “…and inequality), and some also include energy use (White 1959, Flannery 1972, Butzer 1982, Redman 1999, Redman et al. 2004, Sanderson 2006, Tainter 2006b, Abrutyn and Lawrence 2010, Nolan and Lenski 2010, Tainter 2011, Butzer 2012, Chase-Dunn and Lerro 2013, Fischer-Kowalski et al. 2014).”