Sustainability Science (eBook, ePUB)

Key Issues
Redaktion: König, Ariane; Ravetz, Jerome

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Sustainability Science: Key Issues is a comprehensive textbook for undergraduates, postgraduates, and participants in executive trainings from any disciplinary background studying the theory and practice of sustainability science. Each chapter takes a critical and reflective stance on a key issue or method of sustainability science. Contributing authors offer perspectives from diverse disciplines, including physics, philosophy of science, agronomy, geography, and the learning sciences.

This book equips readers with a better understanding of how one might actively design, engage in, and guide collaborative processes for transforming human-environment-technology interactions, whilst embracing complexity, contingency, uncertainties, and contradictions emerging from diverse values and world views. Each reader of this book will thus have guidance on how to create and/or engage in similar initiatives or courses in their own context.

Sustainability Science: Key Issues is the ideal book for students and researchers engaged in problem and project based learning in sustainability science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317216629
• Artikelnr.: 50515948

Autorenporträt

Ariane König is a Senior Researcher in the Research Unit for Education, Cognition, Culture and Society at the University of Luxembourg. Jerome Ravetz is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Sustainability science as a transformative social learning
process Ariane König
Chapter 2. Flowers of resistance: Citizen science, ecological democracy and
the transgressive education paradigm Arjen E.J. Wals, Michael A. Peters
Part I. Embracing complexity and alternative futures: Conceptual tools and
methods
Chapter 3. Systems approaches for transforming social practice: Design
requirements Ariane König
Chapter 4. Cognitive pitfalls in dealing with sustainability Philipp
Sonnleitner
Chapter 5. Escaping the complexity dilemma Barry Newell, Katrina Proust
Chapter 6. Exploring alternative futures with scenarios Gerard Drenth,
Shirin Elahi, Ariane König
Chapter 7. Social technology and Theory U: Co-creating actionable knowledge
for
leadership Isabel Page
Chapter 8. Staging design-thinking for sustainability in practice: Guidance
and watch-outs Kilian Gericke, Boris Eisenbart, Gregor Waltersdorfer
Part II. What might transformations look like? Sectoral challenges and
interdependence
Chapter 9. Can ecosystem services help agricultural transitions? Nicolas
Dendoncker, Emilie Crouzat
Chapter 10. Food systems and human ecology: An overview Federico Davila,
Robert Dyball
Chapter 11. Energy: Physical and technical basics Susanne Siebentritt
Chapter 12. Urban energy transitions from innovations in green building
Julia Affolderbach, Bérénice Jung-Preller, Christian Schulz
Chapter 13. Democratising renewable energy production: A Luxembourgish
perspective Kristina Hondrila, Simon Norcross, Paulina Golinska, Vladimir
Broz, Aydeli Rios, Jules Muller
Chapter 14. Community-based monitoring for improved water governance Kim
Chi Tran, Ariane König
Part III. Tracking, steering and judging transformation
Chapter 15. Sustainability indicators: Quality and quantity Jerome Ravetz,
Paula Hild, Olivier Thunus, Julien Bollati
Chapter 16. Complex learning Sebastian Manhart
Chapter 17. Uncertainty as a key to sustainability economics Jerome Ravetz
Chapter 18. Post-Script: Heuristics for sustainability science Jerome
Ravetz
Chapter 19. Outlook: The changing relationship between citizens and science
in the Anthropocene Ariane König