Sustainable Interdisciplinarity: Human-Nature Relations

Sustainable interdisciplinarity focuses on human-nature relations and a multitude of contemporary overlapping research between society and the environment. A variety of disciplines have played a large part in better understanding sustainable development since its high-profile emergence approximately a quarter of a century ago. At present the forefront of sustainability research is an array of methods techniques and growing knowledge base that considers past present and future pathways. Specific multidisciplinary concentrations within the scope of societal changes urban landscape transformations international environmental comparative studies as well as key theories and dynamics relating to sustainable performance are explored. Specializations in complex sustainability issues address international governance arrangements rules and organizations--both public and private--within the scope of four themes: sustainability human geography environment and interdisciplinary societal studies. This book contains eleven thoroughly refereed contributions concerning pressing issues that interlink sustainable interdisciplinarity with the presented themes in terms of the human-nature interface.