Continues to fill gaps between the descriptive, conceptual, and transformative sustainability science Sustainability 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 necessary transdisciplinary focus, it is difficult to find authoritative content in a single source. Sustainability Science: Managing Risk and Resilience for Sustainable Development, Second Edition, contributes to filling that gap and is completely revised with several new chapters. It asserts that all efforts for the sustainability of humankind are undermined by the four fundamental challenges of complexity, uncertainty, ambiguity, and dynamic change. While there are no silver bullets, this book contends that we need systems approaches, risk approaches, participatory approaches, and resilience approaches to 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).
? Introduces a new agenda for sustainable development that reflects current thinking in sustainability science.1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iii 6. Acknowledgements - p. iii 7. Chapter 1. Introducing the book - p. 1 8. Part I: The state of the world - p. 8 9. Chapter 2. Our past defining our present - p. 11 10. Chapter 3. Our growing awareness of sustainability challenges - p. 37 11. Chapter 4. Our boundaries for sustainability - p. 71 12. Chapter 5. Our disturbances, disruptions and disasters - p. 89 13. Chapter 6. Our dynamic risk landscape - p. 147 14. Part II: Approaching the world - p. 172 15. Chapter 7. Conceptual frames for risk, resilience and sustainable development - p. 175 16. Chapter 8. Resilience—from panacean to pragmatic - p. 213 17. Chapter 9. Grasping complexity - p. 245 18. Chapter 10. Governing and governmentalisation - p. 281 19. Chapter 11. The world as human-environment systems - p. 331 20. Part III: Changing the world - p. 368 21. Chapter 12. Science and change - p. 371 22. Chapter 13. Understanding resistance to knowledge and change - p. 383 23. Chapter 14. Capacity development for resilience - p. 441 24. Chapter 15. Social change for a resilient society - p. 497 25. On a bumpy road from Industria to Sustainia? - p. 513 26. Chapter 17. Concluding remarks - p. 523 27. Index - p. 533
Continues to fill gaps between the descriptive, conceptual, and transformative sustainability science Sustainability 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 necessary transdisciplinary focus, it is difficult to find authoritative content in a single source. Sustainability Science: Managing Risk and Resilience for Sustainable Development, Second Edition, contributes to filling that gap and is completely revised with several new chapters. It asserts that all efforts for the sustainability of humankind are undermined by the four fundamental challenges of complexity, uncertainty, ambiguity, and dynamic change. While there are no silver bullets, this book contends that we need systems approaches, risk approaches, participatory approaches, and resilience approaches to 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).
? Introduces a new agenda for sustainable development that reflects current thinking in sustainability science.1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iii 6. Acknowledgements - p. iii 7. Chapter 1. Introducing the book - p. 1 8. Part I: The state of the world - p. 8 9. Chapter 2. Our past defining our present - p. 11 10. Chapter 3. Our growing awareness of sustainability challenges - p. 37 11. Chapter 4. Our boundaries for sustainability - p. 71 12. Chapter 5. Our disturbances, disruptions and disasters - p. 89 13. Chapter 6. Our dynamic risk landscape - p. 147 14. Part II: Approaching the world - p. 172 15. Chapter 7. Conceptual frames for risk, resilience and sustainable development - p. 175 16. Chapter 8. Resilience—from panacean to pragmatic - p. 213 17. Chapter 9. Grasping complexity - p. 245 18. Chapter 10. Governing and governmentalisation - p. 281 19. Chapter 11. The world as human-environment systems - p. 331 20. Part III: Changing the world - p. 368 21. Chapter 12. Science and change - p. 371 22. Chapter 13. Understanding resistance to knowledge and change - p. 383 23. Chapter 14. Capacity development for resilience - p. 441 24. Chapter 15. Social change for a resilient society - p. 497 25. On a bumpy road from Industria to Sustainia? - p. 513 26. Chapter 17. Concluding remarks - p. 523 27. Index - p. 533
