Quantitative Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Development Goals

Foreword
Preface
Contents
Part I Laboratory Structure
1 Sustainability Complex Network
	Introduction
	The Small–World Complex Network
	The Sustainability Complex Network
	From a Small to Large Networks
		Regular Graph
		Random Graph
	From Unweighted to Weighted SCN
	Conclusions and Perspectives
	References
Part II The Blue Planet and the Ocean Sustainable Economy
2 Routes to Ocean Sustainability and Blue Prosperity in a Changing World: Guiding Principles and Open Challenges
	Introduction
	Blue Economy
	Ecosystem Services
	Integrating Blue Economy and Ecosystem
	Economy for a Full World
	Sustainability
	Ocean Under Multiple Threats
	Managing the Last Commons
	Concluding Remarks
	References
Part III Food Security and the Health of the Planet and Its Inhabitants
3 Sustainability, Agricultural Production, Science and Technology
	References
4 Liver and Nutrition
	References
Part IV Climate and Environmental Changes
5 Climate Modeling of the Anthropocene
	Introduction
	The Basic Structure of Today’s CSMs
	The Process of Producing Twenty-First Century Climate Change Projections and the Assessment of Related Uncertainties
	The Need and Challenge of Including an Interactive Human Component in Climate Models
	References
Part V The New Data Science for Sustainability and Human Ecology
6 Quantitative Human Ecology: Data, Models and Challenges for Sustainability
	Introduction
	Conceptual Models
	Data-Driven Computational Models: Network Science
	Machine Learning
	Challenges
	References
7 Computations for Sustainability
	Introduction
	Mathematics for Sustainability
		Real-Life Applications
		Enhancement of Computational Performance
	Conclusions
	References
Part VI Energy Transition and Industrial Product Chains
8 Sustainability in the Energy System and in the Industrial System
	The Industrial System and the Energy System
		“Fuel and Engine” of all Human Activities
		A Brief Historical View
		Recent (R)evolutions
		Central Role of the Human Element in Sustainability
	Current Status of the Industrial System and the Energy System
		A Critical View on Current Data
		The Urgent Need for a Transition
	Implementing the Transition
		Measurement: Quantitative Indicators
		Education: Communicating the Industry-Energy Transition
		Key Enabling Technologies for the Transition
		Economics of the Transition
		Policy and Regulations
	Conclusions
	References
Part VII Sustainability Frames, Social Equity and the Right to Sustainability
9 Framing Sustainability
	Sustainability in Frames
	Sustainability Frames: Very Weak, Weak, Strong, Very Strong
	The Very Weak Sustainability
	The Weak Sustainability
	The Strong Sustainability
	The Very Strong Sustainability
	In Summary: The Distinctive Elements of the Sustainability Frames
	References
10 Natural Parks and Sustainable Development: A Theoretical Study
	Introduction
	Natural Parks and Sustainable Development
	Park Supplying Goods: Searching for a Taxonomy
	Governing Collective Goods: The Natural Park as a Place-Based Institution
	Conclusions
	References
11 The ‘Position’ of Social Sciences in Sustainability Issue. The Emblematic Case of Energy Transition
	References
12 The Law of Sustainability
	Introduction
	The Legal Framework on Sustainability
		The UN Development Goals
		Climate and Corporations
	Enforcing Sustainable Obligations from Below
	Quantifying the Law? De-quantifying the SDGs?
	The Dark Side of Numbers
	What Law?
	What to Do?
Part VIII Protection of the Earth Habitats with Space Tools
13 Protection of the Earth Habitats with Space Tools
	Space Weather
	Minor Bodies of the Solar System
	Space is Really Interdisciplinary
The Laboratory for Quantitative Sustainability
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