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TITLE: RECONSTRUCTING SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE: KNOWLEDGE AND
ACTION FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
PUBLISHER: ROUTLEDGE LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
LINK: http://is.gd/dtTIlL RELEASE TYPE: RETAIL
FORMAT: PDF RELEASE DATE: 2015.02.26
ISBN: 9780415632614 STORE DATE: 2015
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AUTHOR: THADDEUS R. MILLER

BOOK

The growing urgency, complexity and "wickedness" of
sustainability problems-from climate change and biodiversity loss
to ecosystem degradation and persistent poverty and
inequality-present fundamental challenges to scientific knowledge
production and its use. While there is little doubt that science
has a crucial role to play in our ability to pursue
sustainability goals, critical questions remain as to how to most
effectively organize research and connect it to actions that
advance social and natural wellbeing. Drawing on interviews with
leading sustainability scientists, this book examines how
researchers in the emerging, interdisciplinary field of
sustainability science are attempting to define sustainability
establish research agendas, and link the knowledge they produce
to societal action. Pairing these insights with case studies of
innovative sustainability research centres, the book reformulates
the sustainability science research agenda and its relationship
to decision-making and social action. It repositions the field as
a "science of design" that aims to enrich public reasoning and
deliberation while also working to generate social and
technological innovations for a more sustainable future. This
timely book gives students, researchers and practitioners a
valuable and unique analysis of the emergence of sustainability
science, and both the opportunities and barriers faced by
scientific efforts to contribute to social action