The Earth as an Engineering System: Addressing Sustainability through Science, Technology and Policy

We combine insights from the two emerging fields of engineering systems and sustainability science to develop an analytical approach for understanding and managing coupled natural and human systems. The Earth system is characterized with reference to the attributes of engineering systems (real-world...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Selin, Noelle Eckley, Friedman, Carey L.
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/102921