An Inter- and Transciplinary Introduction into Sustainability Science

Book "Sustainability Science" published

  • Publications 10.12.2015

The textbook "Sustainability Science" is an introduction into inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability science, providing readers with a comprehensive compilation of conceptual perspectives, methodological approaches and empirical insights of inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability science. The editors Harald Heinrichs, Pim Martens, Gerd Michelsen and Arnim Wiek got an international team of authors from leading sustainability institutions to cover key perspectives and topics of the scientific discourse on sustainable development.

Part of the team of authors are scientists of the Wuppertal Institute: The chapter "Sustainable Energy Systems" by Wuppertal Institute's Stefan Lechtenböhmer and Lars J. Nilsson sketches core structural features of anthropogenic energy systems and discusses their relevance for addressing global challenges. The chapter then presents the main elements and strategies to make energy systems more sustainable and gives examples on political and societal challenges of this transformation.

In the chapter "Sustainability and Science Policy" by Wuppertal Institute's Uwe Schneidewind, Mandy Singer-Brodowski and Karoline Augenstein examine the importance of science policy for a transformation toward a more sustainable society. They ask how science policy can create the institutional conditions that are needed for developing a sustainability science and how science policy may need to reorientate in order to enable a sustainable development.

"Sustainability Science" was published by Springer and can be purchased as a whole as well as only single chapters online.


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