Sustainability Science

<p><em>Sustainability Science: Key Issues</em> is a comprehensive textbook for undergraduates, postgraduates, and participants in executive trainings from any disciplinary background studying the theory and practice of sustainability science. Each chapter takes a critical and reflective stance on a key issue or method of sustainability science. Contributing authors offer perspectives from diverse disciplines, including physics, philosophy of science, agronomy, geography, and the learning sciences.</p><p>This book equips readers with a better understanding of how one might actively design, engage in, and guide collaborative processes for transforming human-environment-technology interactions, whilst embracing complexity, contingency, uncertainties, and contradictions emerging from diverse values and world views. Each reader of this book will thus have guidance on how to create and/or engage in similar initiatives or courses in their own context.</p><p>Sustainability Science: Key Issues is the ideal book for students and researchers engaged in problem and project based learning in sustainability science.</p> <p>Introduction</p><p>Chapter 1. Sustainability science as a transformative social learning process <em>Ariane König</em></p><p>Chapter 2. Flowers of resistance: Citizen science, ecological democracy and the transgressive education paradigm <em>Arjen E.J. Wals, Michael A. Peters</em></p><p>Part I. Embracing complexity and alternative futures: Conceptual tools and methods</p><p>Chapter 3. Systems approaches for transforming social practice: Design requirements <em>Ariane König</em></p><p>Chapter 4. Cognitive pitfalls in dealing with sustainability <em>Philipp Sonnleitner</em></p><p>Chapter 5. Escaping the complexity dilemma <em>Barry Newell, Katrina Proust</em></p><p>Chapter 6. Exploring alternative futures with scenarios <em>Gerard Drenth, Shirin Elahi, Ariane König</em></p><p>Chapter 7. Social technology and Theory U: Co-creating actionable knowledge for <br>leadership <em>Isabel Page</em></p><p>Chapter 8. Staging design-thinking for sustainability in practice: Guidance and watch-outs <em>Kilian Gericke, Boris Eisenbart, Gregor Waltersdorfer</em></p><p>Part II. What might transformations look like? Sectoral challenges and interdependence</p><p>Chapter 9. Can ecosystem services help agricultural transitions? <em>Nicolas Dendoncker, Emilie Crouzat</em></p><p>Chapter 10. Food systems and human ecology: An overview <em>Federico Davila, Robert Dyball</em></p><p>Chapter 11. Energy: Physical and technical basics <em>Susanne Siebentritt</em></p><p>Chapter 12. Urban energy transitions from innovations in green building <em>Julia Affolderbach, Bérénice Jung-Preller, Christian Schulz </em></p><p>Chapter 13. Democratising renewable energy production: A Luxembourgish perspective <em>Kristina Hondrila, Simon Norcross, Paulina Golinska, Vladimir Broz, Aydeli Rios, Jules Muller</em></p><p>Chapter 14. Community-based monitoring for improved water governance <em>Kim Chi Tran, Ariane König</em></p><p>Part III. Tracking, steering and judging transformation</p><p>Chapter 15. Sustainability indicators: Quality and quantity <em>Jerome Ravetz, Paula Hild, Olivier Thunus, Julien Bollati</em></p><p>Chapter 16. Complex learning <em>Sebastian Manhart</em></p><p>Chapter 17. Uncertainty as a key to sustainability economics <em>Jerome Ravetz</em> </p><p>Chapter 18. Post-Script: Heuristics for sustainability science <em>Jerome Ravetz</em></p><p>Chapter 19. Outlook: The changing relationship between citizens and science in the Anthropocene <em>Ariane König</em></p>