Sustainability Science
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The fully updated second edition of this innovative textbook provides a system analysis approach to sustainability for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. To an extent unparalleled in other textbooks, the latest scientific data and insights are integrated into a broad and deep transdisciplinary framework. Readers are encouraged to explore and engage with sustainability issues through the lenses of a cultural and methodological pluralism which promotes dialogue and alliances in the search for a (more) sustainable future. Ideal for students and…
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Key features
- Fully revised and updated new edition; the more challenging mathematical material now moved online, enhancing its accessibility to a broader range of students
- Innovative in employing a deep transdisciplinary approach to sustainable development focused on worldviews; students reflect on their own values and beliefs as a basis for engagement
- Readers engage with sustainability issues through the lenses of cultural and methodological pluralism; helps train students to operate on 'post-normal science' projects with members from all disciplines
- Examines the dynamics of human-environment systems and facilitates the design, implementation, and evaluation of practical interventions to promote sustainability in varied contexts
- Appeals to engaged citizens, policymakers, and activists as well as its core audience of advanced students and their teachers
- Thought provoking review questions and exercises consolidate what the reader has learnt and stimulates further reflection
About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009300230
- Subjects Comparative Politics,Earth and Environmental Sciences,Environmental Policy, Economics and Law,Politics and International Relations
- Format: Hardback
- Publication date: 08 February 2024
- ISBN: 9781009300193
- Dimensions (mm): 254 x 178 mm
- Weight: 1.51kg
- Page extent: 663 pages
- Availability: In stock
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: 08 February 2024
- ISBN: 9781009300216
- Dimensions (mm): 254 x 178 mm
- Weight: 1.37kg
- Page extent: 663 pages
- Availability: In stock
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 07 December 2023
- ISBN: 9781009300230
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