Summary
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Subject index
Sustainability is a key word in the environmental vocabulary informing how research projects in the social sciences are framed. This book provides a systematic and critical review of the key research methods used when studying sustainable strategies and outcomes. It is divided into four areas:
Researching Complex Sustainability Issues: Reflections on Current Challenges and Future Developments
Researching Complex Sustainability Issues: Reflections on Current Challenges and Future Developments
Undoubtedly, sustainability research has gained considerable momentum in recent times in both the natural and social sciences, partly because academics, policy makers and the public have grown increasingly aware of pressing social and environmental problems. This rapid transformation of the research landscape has coincided with significant changes in institutional structures, funding opportunities and research training. As detailed in our introductory chapter, whether or not one agrees with the dominant sustainable development agenda, it is evident that its adoption has promoted the social-scientific investigation of human development and its environmental causes and consequences.
Arguments for and against empirically researching human social life ...
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