Reconstructing sustainability science : knowledge and action for a sustainable future / Thaddeus Miller.
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TextSeries: Earthscan science in society seriesPublication details: London : Routledge, 2013.ISBN: - 0415632625
- 9780415632621
- 333.72 MIL
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | Thurles Library Main Collection | 333.72 MIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100627448 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The growing urgency, complexity and "wickedness" of sustainability problems--from climate change and biodiversity loss to ecosystem degradation and persistent poverty and inequality--present fundamental challenges to scientific knowledge production and its use. While there is little doubt that science has a crucial role to play in our ability to pursue sustainability goals, critical questions remain as to how to most effectively organize research and connect it to actions that advance social and natural wellbeing.
Drawing on interviews with leading sustainability scientists, this book examines how researchers in the emerging, interdisciplinary field of sustainability science are attempting to define sustainability, establish research agendas, and link the knowledge they produce to societal action. Pairing these insights with case studies of innovative sustainability research centres, the book reformulates the sustainability science research agenda and its relationship to decision-making and social action. It repositions the field as a "science of design" that aims to enrich public reasoning and deliberation while also working to generate social and technological innovations for a more sustainable future.
This timely book gives students, researchers and practitioners a valuable and unique analysis of the emergence of sustainability science, and both the opportunities and barriers faced by scientific efforts to contribute to social action.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. xiii)
- Acknowledgments (p. xvi)
- Part I Constructing sustainability science (p. 1)
- 1 Planet under pressure (p. 3)
- 2 A science for sustainability (p. 14)
- 3 Constructing sustainability science (p. 29)
- 4 Tensions in sustainability science (p. 46)
- Part II Reconstructing sustainability science (p. 65)
- 5 Reclaiming sustainability: limits to knowledge (p. 67)
- 6 Sustainability as a science of design (p. 79)
- 7 Conclusion: sustainability and our socio-technical future (p. 99)
- Appendix A Interview subjects (p. 104)
- Appendix B Interview protocol (p. 107)
- Index (p. 109)