Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Transitions to Sustainability

Edmond Byrne, Gerard Mullally, Colin Sage (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

268 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
9781472462954 (ISBN)

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Demonstrates how a university can, in a very practical and pragmatic way, be re-envisioned through a transdisciplinary informed frame. This book shows how an institution can embark upon a process of more meaningful deliberation in search of greater understanding and options for action in relation to contemporary sustainability-related crises.

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.

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.

Part 1: Setting the Scene

Contexts of Transdisciplinarity: Drivers, Discourses & Process
Gerard Mullally, Colin Sage and Edmond Byrne

Disciplines, Perspectives and Conversations
Gerard Mullally, Edmond Byrne and Colin Sage

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

Part 2: Transdisciplinary Conversations and Conceptions

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

Fear and Loading in the Anthropocene: Narratives of Apocalypse and Salvation in the Irish Media
Gerard Mullally

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

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

Precaution and Prudence in Sustainability: Heuristic of Fear and Heuristic of Love
Bénédicte Sage-Fuller

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

Using Energy Systems Modelling to Inform Ireland’s Low Carbon Future
Brian Ó Gallachóir, Paul Deane and Alessandro Chiodi

Markets, Productivism and the Implications for Irish Rural Sustainable Development
Mary O’Shaughnessy and Colin Sage

Nanomaterials as an Emerging Category of Environmental Pollutants
David Sheehan

Part 3: Conclusions

Sustaining Interdisciplinarity? Reflections on an Inter-institutional Exchange by an Early Stage Researcher
Stephan Maier, Michael Narodoslawsky and Gerard Mullally

In Praise of Intellectual Promiscuity in the Service of a ‘Passion for Sustainability’
John Barry

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

Edmond Byrne, Colin Sage and Gerard Mullally

Erscheinungsdatum	25.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	4 Tables, black and white; 14 Line drawings, black and white; 14 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	660 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-13	9781472462954 / 9781472462954
Zustand	Neuware