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Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Transitions to Sustainability

Editat de Edmond Byrne, Gerard Mullally, Colin Sage
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2020
Demonstrating how a university can, in a very practical and pragmatic way, be re-envisioned through a transdisciplinary informed frame, this book shows how through an open and collegiate spirit of inquiry the most pressing and multifaceted issue of contemporary societal (un)sustainability can be addressed and understood in a way that transcends narrow disciplinary work. It also provides a practical exemplar of how far more meaningful deliberation, understandings and options for action in relation to contemporary sustainability-related crises can emerge than could otherwise be achieved. Indeed it helps demonstrate how only through a transdisciplinary ethos and approach can real progress be achieved. The fact that this can be done in parallel to (or perhaps underneath) the day-to-day business of the university serves to highlight how even micro seed initiatives can further the process of breaking down silos and reuniting C.P. Snow’s ‘two cultures’ after some four centuries of the relentless project of modernity. While much has been written and talked about with respect to both sustainability and transdisciplinarity, this book offers a pragmatic example which hopefully will signpost the ways others can, will and indeed must follow in our common quest for real progress.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367668280
ISBN-10: 0367668289
Pagini: 268
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Part 1: Setting the Scene







  1. Contexts of Transdisciplinarity: Drivers, Discourses & Process



    Gerard Mullally, Colin Sage and Edmond Byrne





  2. Disciplines, Perspectives and Conversations



    Gerard Mullally, Edmond Byrne and Colin Sage





  3. Sustainability as Contingent Balance between Opposing though Interdependent Tendencies; A Process Approach to Progress and Evolution



    Edmond Byrne


    Part 2: Transdisciplinary Conversations and Conceptions





  4. Paradigmatic Transformation across the Disciplines; Snapshots of an Emerging Complexity Informed Approach to Progress, Evolution and Sustainability



    Edmond Byrne





  5. Fear and Loading in the Anthropocene: Narratives of Apocalypse and Salvation in the Irish Media



    Gerard Mullally





  6. Bio-fuelling the Hummer? Transdisciplinary Thoughts on Techno-Optimism and Innovation in the Transition from Unsustainability



    John Barry





  7. The Gulf between Legal and Scientific Conceptions of Ecological ‘Integrity’: The Need for a Shared Understanding in Regulatory Policy-Making



    Owen McIntyre and John O'Halloran





  8. Precaution and Prudence in Sustainability: Heuristic of Fear and Heuristic of Love



    Bénédicte Sage-Fuller





  9. Sustainable Future Ecological Communities: On the Absence and Continuity of Sacred Symbols, Sublime Objects and Charismatic Heroes



    Kieran Keohane





  10. Using Energy Systems Modelling to Inform Ireland’s Low Carbon Future



    Brian Ó Gallachóir, Paul Deane and Alessandro Chiodi





  11. Markets, Productivism and the Implications for Irish Rural Sustainable Development



    Mary O’Shaughnessy and Colin Sage





  12. Nanomaterials as an Emerging Category of Environmental Pollutants



    David Sheehan




    Part 3: Conclusions





  13. Sustaining Interdisciplinarity? Reflections on an Inter-institutional Exchange by an Early Stage Researcher



    Stephan Maier, Michael Narodoslawsky and Gerard Mullally





  14. In Praise of Intellectual Promiscuity in the Service of a ‘Passion for Sustainability’



    John Barry





  15. Transdisciplinarity within the University: Emergent Possibilities, Opportunities, Challenges and Constraints



Edmond Byrne, Colin Sage and Gerard Mullally

Notă biografică

Dr Edmond Byrne is Senior Lecturer in Process & Chemical Engineering at University College Cork, Ireland.


Dr Gerard Mullally is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at University College Cork, Ireland.


Dr Colin Sage is Senior Lecturer in Geography at University College Cork, Ireland.


All three are lead collaborators on the ‘Sustainability in Society’ transdisciplinary research group at University College Cork, Ireland.

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Demonstrating how a university can, in a very practical and pragmatic way, be re-envisioned through a transdisciplinary informed frame, this book shows how the most pressing and multifaceted issue of contemporary societal (un)sustainability can be addressed and understood in a way that transcends narrow disciplinary work. It also provides a practic