Transdisciplinary perspectives on transitions to sustainability / edited by Edmond Byrne, Gerard Mullally and Colin Sage.

• 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 -- 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 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 -- 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 -- Appendix: New paradigm thinking : alternative visions transcending the disciplines / Edmond Byrne, Colin Sage and Gerard Mullally.

Ämnesord

Tvärvetenskaplig forskning  (sao)

Sustainability.  (LCSH)

Sustainability  -- Study and teaching (Higher) (LCSH)

Hållbar utveckling  -- forskning (sao)

Interdisciplinary research  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

GE195 (LCC)

338.9270711 (DDC)

Qadcb (kssb/8 (machine generated))