1st Edition
Sustainability Networks Cognitive Tools for Expert Collaboration in Social-Ecological Systems
By Janne Hukkinen
Copyright 2008
202 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Sustainability is a word that means different things depending on who is using it, thus underlining the potential problems involved in experts from different fields teaming up to tackle sustainability problems. In this book, Janne Hukkinen argues for a reflexive approach to sustainability as a means of coming to grips with the threatening challenges arising out of human-environment interaction.... Read more
1. Introduction: Bear Tracks to Sustainability Expertise 2. Miserable Quarrel in a Social-Ecological System 3. The Commitments of Science: Dissecting the Social-Ecological System 4. Reassembling the Social-Ecological System with Analogies 5. Illuminating Sustainability with Scenarios and Indicators 6. Scenarios and Power 7. Sustainability Experts Encounter Each Other 8. Conclusion: Hybrid Experts
Biography
Janne Hukkinen is Professor of Environmental Policy at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of Institutions in Environmental Management (1999) also published by Routledge.
