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Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Transitions to Sustainability book cover

1st Edition

Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Transitions to Sustainability

Edited By Edmond Byrne, Gerard Mullally, Colin Sage Copyright 2017
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Part 1: Setting the Scene







  1. Contexts of Transdisciplinarity: Drivers, Discourses & Process




    2. Gerard Mullally, Colin Sage and Edmond Byrne





  2. Disciplines, Perspectives and Conversations




    3. Gerard Mullally, Edmond Byrne and Colin Sage





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




    4. Edmond Byrne



    Part 2: Transdisciplinary Conversations and Conceptions





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




    5. Edmond Byrne





  5. Fear and Loading in the Anthropocene: Narratives of Apocalypse and Salvation in the Irish Media




    6. Gerard Mullally





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




    7. John Barry





  7. The Gulf between Legal and Scientific Conceptions of Ecological ‘Integrity’: The Need for a Shared Understanding in Regulatory Policy-Making




    8. Owen McIntyre and John O'Halloran





  8. Precaution and Prudence in Sustainability: Heuristic of Fear and Heuristic of Love




    9. Bénédicte Sage-Fuller





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




    10. Kieran Keohane





  10. Using Energy Systems Modelling to Inform Ireland’s Low Carbon Future




    11. Brian Ó Gallachóir, Paul Deane and Alessandro Chiodi





  11. Markets, Productivism and the Implications for Irish Rural Sustainable Development




    12. Mary O’Shaughnessy and Colin Sage





  12. Nanomaterials as an Emerging Category of Environmental Pollutants




    13. David Sheehan





    Part 3: Conclusions





  13. Sustaining Interdisciplinarity? Reflections on an Inter-institutional Exchange by an Early Stage Researcher




    14. Stephan Maier, Michael Narodoslawsky and Gerard Mullally





  14. In Praise of Intellectual Promiscuity in the Service of a ‘Passion for Sustainability’




    15. John Barry





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




Edmond Byrne, Colin Sage and Gerard Mullally

Biography

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.

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