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Researching sustainability : a guide to social science methods, practice and engagement /

This book is for students and researchers across the social sciences who are planning, conducting and disseminating research on sustainability-related issues. Real-world sustainability problems cross many boundaries, and this is the first book to guide students and practitioners through the practica...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Franklin, Alex (Editor ), Blyton, Paul (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Earthscan, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sustainability research: an introduction
  • Developing and delivering social science research for sustainability
  • Ethnographic practices and the practices of biosecurity
  • Case study method in sustainability research
  • Striving for mutuality in research relationships: the value of participatory action research principles
  • 'Spaces for sustainability': using mobile methods to investigate the space of a farmers' market
  • Elite and elite-lite interviewing: managing our industrial legacy
  • Grounding rapidly emerging disciplines: the fairtrade towns movement
  • Surviving the field: applying the just sustainability paradigm to survey research
  • Making sense of climate change: notes on interpretive policy analysis and discourse analysis in sustainability research
  • Mediating sustainability: constructivist approaches to sustainability research
  • Negotiating the terrain: doing research abroad
  • Sustainable futures: futures studies and food supply systems
  • Generalizing sustainability research: some reflections from a study of work-life integration
  • Engaging with policy-makers: influencing sustainability policy through academic research
  • Sustaining the extra-curricular: communicating sustainability research to children
  • Engaging the media: An academic's sojourn in the newsroom
  • Sustainability science and a new spatial imagination: exploring some analytical and methodological considerations.