Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 671 g
A Guide to Social Science Methods, Practice and Engagement
Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 671 g
ISBN: 978-1-84971-121-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
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.
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Part 1: Issues in Sustainability Research 1. Sustainability Research: An Introduction 2. Directing an Inter-Disciplinary Sustainability Research Agenda Part 2: 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 1 1. Mediating Sustainability: Constructivist Approaches to Sustainability Research 12. Negotiating the Terrain: Doing Research Abroad 13. Sustainable Futures: Futures Studies and Food Supply Systems Part 3: Disseminatin Sustainability Research 14. Generalising 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: a Forward Agenda