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2nd Edition - November 1, 2023
Author: Per Becker
Continues to fill gaps between the descriptive, conceptual, and transformative sustainability scienceSustainability is increasingly important across functional sectors and… Read more
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Continues to fill gaps between the descriptive, conceptual, and transformative sustainability scienceSustainability is increasingly important across functional sectors and scientific disciplines. Policy-makers, practitioners,and academics continue to wrestle with the complexity of risk, resilience, and sustainability, but because of the necessarytransdisciplinary focus, it is difficult to find authoritative content in a single source. Sustainability Science: ManagingRisk and Resilience for Sustainable Development, Second Edition, contributes to filling that gap and is completely revisedwith several new chapters. It asserts that all efforts for the sustainability of humankind are undermined by the fourfundamental challenges of complexity, uncertainty, ambiguity, and dynamic change. While there are no silver bullets, thisbook contends that we need systems approaches, risk approaches, participatory approaches, and resilience approachesto address each of them and endeavours to provide such. With that in mind, this book describes the state of the world(Part I), proposes a way to approach the world (Part II), and suggests how to set out to change the world (Part III).
1. Introducing the book
PART I: THE STATE OF THE WORLD
2. Our Past Defining Our Present
3. Our growing awareness of sustainability challenges
4. Our boundaries for sustainability
5. Our Disturbances, Disruptions and Disasters
6. Our dynamic risk landscape
PART II: APPROACHING THE WORLD
7. Conceptual Frames for Risk, Resilience and Sustainable Development
8. Resilience—From Panacean to Pragmatic
9. Grasping complexity
10. Governing and governmentalisation
11. The World as Human–Environment Systems
PART III: CHANGING THE WORLD
12. Science and Change
13. Understanding Resistance to Knowledge and Change
14. Capacity Development for Resilience
15. Social Change for a Resilient Society
16. On a bumpy road from Industria to Sustainia?
(PART IV)
17. Concluding Remarks
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