Sustainability Science: Key Issues
- ISBN-10
- 1317216628
- ISBN-13
- 9781317216629
- Series
- Sustainability Science
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 364
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-11-22
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Authors
- Ariane König, Jerome Ravetz
Description
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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- 2023-11-07
- 554 pages
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