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EUROSPAN GROUP Social Science & Sustainability by Heinz Schandl Uain Walker
Sustainability policies shape the ways that society and the economy interact with the environment, natural resources, and ecosystems, and they address issues such as water, energy and food security, and climate change. These policies are complex and are, at times, obscured by contestation, uncertainty, and sometimes ignorance. Ultimately, sustainability problems are social problems and they need to be addressed through social and policy change.Social Science and Sustainability draws on the wide-ranging experience of CSIRO's social scientists in the sustainability policy domain. These researchers have extensive experience in addressing complex issues of society-nature relationships, usually in interdisciplinary collaboration with natural scientists. This book describes some of the evidence-based concepts, frameworks, and methodologies they have developed, which may guide a transition to sustainability. ForewordAcknowledgements Contributors 1: Introduction 2: Why do we need a sociology of society's natural relations to inform sustainable development? 3: Integration science for impact: fostering transformations towards sustainability 4: Integrating development studies and social-ecological systems thinking: towards livelihood adaptation pathways 5: Remote, marginal and sustainable? The key role of brokers and bridging institutions for stronger Indigenous livelihoods in Australia's deserts 6: Sustainability science, place and regional differences: vulnerability and adaptive capacity in Sydney 7: A 'hierarchy of needs' for achieving impact in international Research for Development 8: The co-construction of environmental (instream) flows and associated cultural ecosystem services 9: Dipping in the well: how behaviours and attitudes influence urban water security 10: Making sense of Australians' responses to climate change: insights from a series of five national surveysl 11: Innovation, sustainability and the promise of inclusion 12: Risk, sustainability and time: sociological perspectives 13: Policy-relevant research: improving the value and impact of the social sciences Index