Sustainable Development Basics

Author: Yan Lei
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Publish Date: 2009-10-14
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Content Summary
This book addresses the four major explicit factors that introduce the concept of sustainable development—population explosion, resource scarcity, environmental degradation, and ecological imbalance—taking systems theory and cybernetics as the starting point. It studies the interrelationships among resources, environment, and ecology under the conditions of human sustainable development, as well as the structural control methods for the giant system.
Chapter 1 explores the fundamental role of resources, environment, and ecology in sustainable development;
Chapter 2 proposes a set of quantitative classification and extraction methods for resources under the context of sustainable development;
Chapter 3 analyzes environmental issues and their interrelationships at different levels, proposing a closed-loop feedback control structure for environmental construction;
Chapter 4 constructs an ecological balance network structure and examines the special active corrective and adjusting role of humans;
Chapter 5 explores the material, energy, and information flows of resources, environment, and ecology and their one-to-one corresponding relationships;
Chapter 6 quantitatively investigates mathematical rules in resource utilization, chemical isomorphism in the Earth's environment, corrective controls in ecosystems, and expansion design in physical spaces.
This book analyzes the fundamental issues of sustainable development from a fresh perspective of systematic development and control, offering thought-provoking insights. The ideas presented are innovative, the language is straightforward, the theory is rigorous, and the descriptions are clear, making it suitable for readers with high school knowledge or higher. Even if some theoretical formulas are skipped, they do not hinder the understanding of the book's core ideas.
The book is also of reference value and methodological guidance for theoretical research on sustainable development and scientific decision-making in related fields.
Keywords: sustainable development, resources, environment, ecology, system, control