| 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. |
| Place Published |
Tokyo ; New York |
| Corporate Au Added Ent |
United Nations University. Press. |
| Title Ser Add Ent |
Sustainability science series. |
| PUB Date Free Form |
c2011 |
| Series Title Untraced |
Sustainability science series |
| BIB Level |
m |
| Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
| LCCN |
2010047989 |
| OCLC Time Stamp |
20111114083455 |
| Language |
eng |
| Origin |
OCLC |
| Type |
CAT |
| OCLC Rec Leader |
02554cam 2200397 a 45020 |
