ROUTLEDGE RECONSTRUCTING SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE 2015 RETAIL EBOOK-kE

TITLE: RECONSTRUCTING SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE: KNOWLEDGE AND

ACTION FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

PUBLISHER: ROUTLEDGE LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

LINK: http://is.gd/dtTIlL RELEASE TYPE: RETAIL

FORMAT: PDF RELEASE DATE: 2015.02.26

ISBN: 9780415632614 STORE DATE: 2015

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AUTHOR: THADDEUS R. MILLER



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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