Physics of Societal Issues

This book provides the reader with essential tools needed to analyze complex societal issues and demonstrates the transition from physics to modern-day laws and treaties. This second edition features new equation-oriented material and extensive data sets drawing upon current information from experts in their fields. Problems to challenge the reader and extend discussion are presented on three timely

Authors: Ahmed, Nafeez Mosaddeq
Presents a concise, systematic analysis of the key factors behind the acceleration of civil unrest across the world, and its major strategic and societal implications
Provides an interdisciplinary integrated analysis of data across oil and energy production, food production, economic growth, austerity and debt, to determine how their interaction is undermining states a part of a wider global process of system failure
Demonstrates for the first time the clear inaccuracies of media coverage of these issues due to predominance of fossil fuel-connected interests

by Christine Farcy (Editor), Eduardo Rojas-Briales (Editor), Inazio Martinez de Arano (Editor)
Forestry today, like many other sectors that traditionally rely on material goods, faces significant global drivers of societal change that are less often addressed than the environmental concerns commonly in the spotlight of scientific, political, and news media