5(Illustrated) Ecosystems And Sustainable Development V (WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment) (Advances in Ecological Sciences) by Enzo Tiezzi, 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 ..."
"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 ..."