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Title

Sustainability science : a multidisciplinary approach / edited by Hiroshi Komiyama ... [et al.].

Publication

Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University, c2011.

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Additional Authors

• Komiyama, Hiroshi, 1944-
• United Nations University. Press.

Description

xxi, 474 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Sustainability science series

Uniform Title

Sustainability science series

Subject

Sustainable development > Research

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9789280811803 (pbk.)
• 9280811800 (pbk.)

LCCN

2010047989

OCLC

• ocn491905241
• SCSB-14260315

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library