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Sustainability Science
Managing Risk and Resilience for Sustainable Development
This work advances the understanding of the dynamics of human-environment systems, and demonstrates the design, implementation, and evaluation of practical interventions promoting sustainability.
Per Becker (Author)
9780444627094
Hardback, published 25 July 2014
302 pages
23.4 x 19 x 2.3 cm, 0.71 kg
"...explores approaches to making the planet a more resilient and safe place for the future. The book offers a holistic agenda for societal change." --Sea Technology Magazine, December 2014
A new, holistic transdisciplinary endeavour born in the 21st century, Sustainability Science: Managing Risk and Resilience for Sustainable Development aims to provide conceptual and practical approaches to sustainable development that help us to grasp and address uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity and dynamic change. Four aspects that permeate our contemporary world and undermine much of our traditional ways of thinking and doing. The concepts of risk and resilience are central in this endeavour to explain, understand and improve core challenges of humankind. Sustainability and sustainable development are increasingly important guiding principles across administrative levels, functional sectors and scientific disciplines. Policymakers, practitioners and academics continue to wrestle with the complexity of risk, resilience and sustainability, but because of the necessary transdisciplinary focus, it is difficult to find authoritative content in a single source. Sustainability Science: Managing Risk and Resilience for Sustainable Development presents the state of the world in relation to major sustainability challenges and their symptomatic effects, such as climate change, environmental degradation, poverty, disease and disasters. It then continues by elaborating on ways to approach and change our world to make it a safer and more sustainable place for current and future generations. The natural, applied and social sciences are woven together throughout the book to provide a more inclusive understanding of relevant processes, changes, trends and events.
1. Introducing the Book Part I. The State of the World2. Our Past Defining Our Present3. Our Sustainability Challenges4. Our Disturbances, Disruptions and Disasters in a Dynamic World Part II. Approaching the World5. Conceptual Frames for Risk, Resilience and Sustainable Development6. Resilience—From Panacean to Pragmatic7. The World as Human–Environment Systems Part III. Changing the World8. Science and Change9. Developing Capacities for Resilience10. Social Change for a Resilient Society11. Concluding Remarks
Subject Areas: Sustainable agriculture [TVF], Environmental science, engineering & technology [TQ], Sustainability [RNU], Nuclear issues [RNQ], The environment [RN]
