Main Title |
Sustainability science : a multidisciplinary approach / |
Other Authors |
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Publisher |
United Nations University, |
Year Published |
2011 |
OCLC Number |
491905241 |
ISBN |
9789280811803 (pbk.); 9280811800 (pbk.) |
Subjects |
Sustainable development--Research
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
EKBM |
HC79.E5S86458 2011 |
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Research Triangle Park Library/RTP, NC |
11/21/2011 |
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Collation |
xxi, 474 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents Notes |
Sustainability science is an academic discipline that emerged in response to threats to the sustainability of the global environment. Its purpose is to help build a sustainable society by developing solutions to climate change, the exhaustion of resources, ecological destruction and other environmental crises that threaten the future of humanity. Sustainability science demands a realignment of existing academic disciplines. Whereas academia has fragmented into discrete fields of in-depth specialization, sustainability science seeks comprehensive, integrated solutions to complex problems and a restructuring of education and research that spans multiple disciplines. This volume offers approaches to the development of a transdisciplinary perspective that embraces natural, social and human sciences in the quest for a sustainable society.--Publisher's description. Introduction -- The connections between existing sciences and sustainability science -- Concepts of "sustainability" and "sustainability science" -- Tools and methods for sustainability science -- The redefinition of existing sciences in light of sustainability science -- Education -- Conclusion. |