Global sustainability : cultural perspectives and challenges for transdisciplinary integrated research /: cultural perspectives and challenges for transdisciplinary integrated research. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Benno Werlen, editor.
• Authors: Werlen, Benno
• Contents: Introduction; Benno Werlen -- Preface: Speech at TIERS Conference in Jena on 8 June 2012; Matthias Machnig -- PART I: INTEGRATED TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH -- Chapter 1: Sustainability and Territory: An Approach from the Perspective of the Imaginary in Shaping Development; Enrique Aliste -- Chapter 2: Challenges for Transdisciplinary Research; Joske Bunders -- Chapter 3: Narratives for a Sustainable Future. Vision and Motivation for Collective Action; Ilan Chabay -- PART II: KNOWLEDGE -- Chapter 4: Carving a Niche for the Social Sciences in Trans-disciplinary Research on Climate Change Adaptation and Agriculture in Southern Africa; Chipo Plaxedes Mubaya -- Chapter 5: From Co-Production of Knowledge to Transdisciplinary Research. Lessons from the Quest for Producing Socially Robust Knowledge; Juergen Weichselgartner and Bernhard Truffer -- PART III: INTERFACES SOCIETY NATURE -- Chapter 6: Terrestrial Ecosystems Dynamic in the Senegalese Agro-silvopastoral Center-east in the Second Half of the XXe Century; Aliou Dijouf and Matthew G. Hatvany -- Chapter 7: Integrated Global Change Research in West Africa: Flood Vulnerability Studies; Ibidun Adelekan -- Chapter 8: Integrated Approach in Environment Management: Context Bangladesh; Raquib Ahmed -- Chapter 9: Awareness of and Responses to the 2011 Flood Warnings among Vulnerable Communities in Lagos, Nigeria; Olokesusi, F., Olorunfemi, F.B., Onwuemele A. and Oke, M.O -- PART IV: INTERFACES SCIENCE POLICY -- Chapter 10: Solution-Based Spatial Planning for Disaster Risk Reduction and Adaptation to Climate Change in Taiwan; Yu-Fang Lin -- Chapter 11: Institutions and Planning: A Reflection from the Disaster Management Planning in Indonesia; Hendricus A Simarmata and Raka W Suryandaru -- Chapter 12: Could the Search for Sustainability Reinforce the Socio-ecological Conflict? The Mining Industry in Chile and its Impact at the Local and Regional Level; Fernando Campos-Medina -- Chapter 13: Institutions and Planning: A Reflection from Disaster Management Planning in Indonesia; Hendricus A. Simarmata and Raka W. Suryandaru -- Chapter 14: Could the Search for Sustainability Reinforce the Socio-ecological Conflict? The Mining Industry in Chile and its Impact at the Local and Regional Level; Fernando Campos-Medina -- Chapter 15: Political decision-making and Scientific Insights. A comment form the Political Arena; Matthias Machnig.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 300 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 333.71; Social sciences; Sustainable development; Environmental policy; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General; Environmental policy; Sustainable development; Anthropology; Social Sciences; Anthropogeography & Human Ecology; Science -- Environmental Science; Nature -- Natural Disasters; Political Science -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development; Science -- Life Sciences -- Ecology; Sustainability; Natural disasters; Regional & area planning; Ecological science, the Biosphere; Human Geography; Geology; Regional planning; Endangered ecosystems; Social Science -- Human Geography; Human geography; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319164779; 3319164775; 3319164767; 9783319164762
• Related ISBNs: 9783319164762
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 2, 2015).
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