Summary
Contents
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:
Sustainability Research in the Social Sciences – Concepts, Methodologies and the Challenge of Interdisciplinarity
Sustainability Research in the Social Sciences – Concepts, Methodologies and the Challenge of Interdisciplinarity
Introduction
The necessity to reconcile the needs and wants of human society with the limits of the global ecological system has resulted in proposals for alternative forms of development that prioritise human flourishing and well-being over materially intensive economic growth. Calls for development that is capable of sustaining more than seven billion people on a planet with finite resources and that ensures a good quality of life for current and future generations have shaped political agendas in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. These practical and political sustainability issues are matched by equally daunting challenges ...
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