Format:
1 online resource (348 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781849711210
,
9781317972716
Content:
This book is for students and researchers across the social sciences who are planning, conducting and disseminating research on sustainability-related issues. Real-world sustainability problems cross many boundaries, and this is the first book to guide students and practitioners through the practical and theoretical challenges of doing interdisciplinary research in this vital and emerging area. Researching Sustainability contains many in-depth, 'hands on' accounts by expert contributors, providing real-life examples and lessons that can be put to use immediately. Coverage includes: the general challenges that sustainability presents to researchers, including frictions between sustainability and scientific tradition; complexity; research paradigms; interdisciplinarity; social-environmental interactions; and ethical concerns. a host of social science based research methods and approaches. Each chapter presents a different method; its challenges and suitability for different situations; an in-depth example of the method in action; insights and lessons. dissemination of sustainability research findings, including influencing policy, communicating with school children and working with the media. The book concludes with a critical synthesis of issues and methods examined in the book together with a discussion of future research pathways. This book is an essential tool for students, researchers and practitioners in planning, implementing and evaluating their sustainability research
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Julian Agyeman: Joined-up Research -- Acronyms -- Part I Issues in Sustainability Research -- 1. Sustainability Research: An Introduction -- 2. Developing and Delivering Social Science Research for Sustainability -- Part II Approaches to Sustainability Research -- 3. Ethnographic Practices and the Practices of Biosecurity -- 4. Case Study Method in Sustainability Research -- 5. Striving for Mutuality in Research Relationships: The Value of Participatory Action Research Principles -- 6. 'Spaces of Sustainability': Using Mobile Methods to Investigate the Space of a Farmers' Market -- 7. Elite and Elite-lite Interviewing: Managing Our Industrial Legacy -- 8. Grounding Rapidly Emerging Disciplines: The Fairtrade Towns Movement -- 9. Surveying the Field: Applying the Just Sustainability Paradigm to Survey Research -- 10. Making Sense of Climate Change: Notes on Interpretive Policy Analysis and Discourse Analysis in Sustainability Research -- 11. Mediating Sustainability: Constructivist Approaches to Sustainability Research -- 12. Negotiating the Terrain: Doing Research Abroad -- 13. Sustainable Futures: Futures Studies and Food Supply Systems -- Part III Disseminating Sustainability Research -- 14. Generalizing Sustainability Research: Some Reflections from a Study of Work-Life Integration -- 15. Engaging with Policy-makers: Influencing Sustainability Policy through Academic Research -- 16. Sustaining the Extra-curricular: Communicating Sustainability Research to Children -- 17. Engaging the Media: An Academic's Sojourn in the Newsroom -- Conclusion -- 18. Sustainability Science and a New Spatial Imagination: Exploring Some Analytical and Methodological Considerations -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Franklin, Alex Researching Sustainability London : Taylor & Francis Group,c2011 ISBN 9781849711210
Language:
English
Keywords:
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