"Urban areas produce a series of environmental problems arising from the consumption of natural resources and the consequent generation of waste and pollution. These problems contribute to the development of social and economic imbalances. All these problems, which continue to grow in our society, require new solutions. This book addresses the many inter-related aspects of the urban environment from transport and mobility to social exclu ..."
"A New Ecology: Systems Perspective, Second Edition, gives an overview of the commonalities of all ecosystems from a variety of properties, including physical openness, ontic openness, directionality, connectivity, a complex dynamic for growth and development, and a complex dynamic response to disturbances. Each chapter details basic and characteristic properties that help the reader understand how they can be applied to explain a wide s ..."
"A New Ecology presents an ecosystem theory based on the following ecosystem properties: physical openness, ontic openness, directionality, connectivity, a complex dynamic for growth and development, and a complex dynamic response to disturbances. Each of these properties is developed in detail to show that these basic and characteristic properties can be applied to explain a wide spectrum of ecological obsevations and convections. It is ..."
The Essence of Time (The Sustainable World) by EnzoTiezzi Hardcover, 136 Pages, Published 2002 by Wit Press ISBN-13: 978-1-85312-949-0, ISBN: 1-85312-949-6
"With the ever-accelerating pace of daily life, the modern age seems to demand that science, too, should respond at speed. In this book Enzo Tiezzi highlights the continuity between the physical-mathematic and humanistic sciences. He also urges us to reflect on the tempo of the modern era, and to contrast it with the brilliance and complexity of the human relationship with a living world. An illuminating guide to the key scientific ..."
5(Illustrated) Ecosystems And Sustainable Development V (WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment) (Advances in Ecological Sciences) by EnzoTiezzi, C. A. Brebbia, S. E. Jorgensen, D. Almorza Gomar Hardcover, 776 Pages, Published 2005 by Wit Press / Computational Mechanics Ilustrado ISBN-13: 978-1-84564-013-2, ISBN: 1-84564-013-6
"Beyond the specific dimension of the individual, learning is a primary characteristic of life. Shifting our attention to local systems we can consider ecosystems and traditional communities as learning 'minds', according with Bateson’s thought. We call environmental wisdom the explicit knowledge that emerges from long periods of co-evolution of people and nature in local systems, cast in the same lot. Environmental wisdom rises both fro ..."
Rosaluna(1st Edition) by EnzoTiezzi Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2009 by Wit Press ISBN-13: 978-1-84564-399-7, ISBN: 1-84564-399-2
"Rosaluna is special. Her birth in the opaque sulphurous water of a thermal spring gave her almost magic powers. Rosaluna can go back in time while day dreaming or while riding her pureblood Arab mare. She can go back but cannot tell the future, because at any instant the number of possible events is infinite and time is irreversible, whereas the past, as her grandmother says, is known. In a continuous flashback of characters, fables ..."
City Out of Chaos(1st Edition) Urban Self Organization and Sustainability (The Sustainable World) by Riccardo M. Pulselli, EnzoTiezzi Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2009 by Wit Press / Computational Mechanics ISBN-13: 978-1-84564-133-7, ISBN: 1-84564-133-7
"This book introduces concepts from thermodynamics, non equilibrium systems theory and evolutionary physics in order to approach contemporary cities and to understand how human systems interact with the built environment. This theoretical framework asserts that cities can be conceived as ecosystems and dissipative structures with the emergence of collective properties and self-organization processes. Methods for understanding complexity ..."
The End of Time(1st Edition) (The Sustainable World) by EnzoTiezzi Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2002 by Wit Press ISBN-13: 978-1-85312-931-5, ISBN: 1-85312-931-3
"A best seller in Italy for two decades this influential title, which crucially and originally identified the core of ecological crisis in the difference between rapid technological tempos and slow biological tempos, has now been translated into English for the first time. Twenty years ago many were realizing that the issues surrounding energy and the environment would present the defining challenges for a generation. The first editi ..."
The Sustainable City V(1st Edition) Urban Regeneration and Sustainability (Wit Transactions on Ecology and the Environment) by C. A. Brebbia, A. Gospodini, E. Tiezzi, EnzoTiezzi Hardcover, 768 Pages, Published 2008 by Wit Press ISBN-13: 978-1-84564-128-3, ISBN: 1-84564-128-0
"A sustainable city is widely recognised as one that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In "The Sustainable City V" many interrelated aspects of the urban environment from transport and mobility to social exclusions and crime prevention are addressed. The papers included were originally presented at the Fifth International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sus ..."
"Is the concept of sustainability strongly founded on solid scientific bases? And can this elusive concept be introduced in the economic framework and embodied in people's behavior as well as public and private institutions' decision making? This book presents a view of sustainability that starts from the acknowledgment of physical conditions and limits that humans can no longer neglect. It also includes some epistemological foundations ..."
The Sustainable City III Urban Regeneration and Sustainability (Advances in Architecture) (Advances in Architecture, 18) by Nadia Marchettini, C. A. Brebbia, EnzoTiezzi, L. C. Wadhwa Hardcover, 748 Pages, Published 2004 by Wit Press / Computational Mechanics ISBN-13: 978-1-85312-720-5, ISBN: 1-85312-720-5
"Exploring the latest experiences, achievements and state-of-the-art practices and methodologies in sustainability and the urban environment, this book contains 70 papers presented at the Third International Conference on the Sustainable City. It will be of interest to city planners, architects, environmental engineers and all academics, professionals and practitioners involved in the wide range of disciplines associated with this import ..."
Ecological Physical Chemistry Proceedings of an International Workshop Held in Sienna, Italy, 8-12 November 1990 by C. Rossi, EnzoTiezzi Hardcover, 666 Pages, Published 1991 by Elsevier Science Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-444-87430-6, ISBN: 0-444-87430-5
"A great debate has arisen about the necessity to distinguish between different physical chemistry approaches for investigating the behavior of natural systems. On the one side, it is necessary to recognize that the use of time-reversible classical and quantum physical chemistry approaches for studying molecular systems yields a big improvement in man's knowledge. On the other hand it is imperative to have new approaches, new time-irreve ..."
"A New Ecologypresents an ecosystem theory based on the following ecosystem properties: physical openness, ontic openness, directionality, connectivity, a complex dynamic for growth and development, and a complex dynamic response to disturbances. Each of these properties is developed in detail to show that these basic and characteristic properties can be applied to explain a wide spectrum of ecological obsevations and convections. It is ..."
Steps Towards an Evolutionary Physics(Illustrated) (The Sustainable World) by EnzoTiezzi Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2006 by Wit Press / Computational Mechanics ISBN-13: 978-1-84564-035-4, ISBN: 1-84564-035-7
"If thermodynamics is to physics as logic is to philosophy, recent theoretical advancements lend new coherence to the marvel and dynamism of life on Earth. Enzo TiezziÂ’s "Steps Towards an Evolutionary Physics" is a primer and guide, to those who would to stand on the shoulders of giants to attain this view: Heisenberg, Planck, Bateson, Varela, and Prigogine as well as notable contemporary scientists. The adventure of such a free and enq ..."
"This book contains papers presented at The Sustainable City 2010 conference, which was the sixth edition of the International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability. That event followed the very successful meetings held previously in Rio (2000), Segovia (2002), Siena (2004), Tallinn (2006) and Skiathos (2008) and proved one more time the necessity of this scientific forum to discuss the challenging situations that the urban ..."
"Our current civilisation has fallen into a self-destructive process by which natural resources are consumed at an increasing rate. This process has now spread across the planet in search of further sources of energy and materials. The aggressiveness of this quest is such that the future of our planet is in the balance. The process is compounded by the pernicious effects of the resulting pollution. This book contains papers presented at ..."
The Horse to Samarra Ecological Consequences of Unlimited Growth by EnzoTiezzi, Helen Ampt Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 1995 by Columbia Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-231-08036-1, ISBN: 0-231-08036-0
"An evaluation of the environmental and energy problems currently facing mankind, which outlines the dilemmas created by population overgrowth, resource depletion and environmental poisoning. The author argues that new political structures are required to confront pressing environmental challenges."
"The aim of the Fourth International Conference on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development was to integrate thermodynamics, ecology and economics into "ecodynamics", an evolutionary approach emphasising that biodiversity is at the core of sustainability. Together with its companion volume (ISBN: 1-85312-804-X), this book contains almost 120 of the contributions presented at this influential meeting. Topics covered include: ecosystems mode ..."
"ECOSUD is a challenge for the creation of a new science in line with Prigogine's statement that at all levels we observe events associated with the emergence of novelties and narrative elements, which we may associate with the creative power of natureA". This is not only a platform to present novel research related to ecological problems from all over the world; it also gives opportunities for new emergent ideas in science arising from ..."
"Combining sciences and thoughts is essential for the sustainability of ecosystems as well as for understanding human life. Ecology, economics, chemistry, physics, climatology, informatics are pieces to be put together in order to compose the transdisciplinary picture of our complex world. This Volume contains the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development that was held in Coimbra (Portuga ..."