Methods of Sustainability Research in the Social Sciences
- Frances Fahy - National University of Ireland, Ireland
- Henrike Rau - National University of Ireland, Ireland
o Part I: examines the key challenges inherent to social scientific sustainability research, examining the issues involved in combining social and natural/physical research methods.
o Part II: covers methodologies aimed at the investigation of attitudes and behaviour observable at the local level - from families and households to individual organizations within communities
o Part III: looks at sustainability research at the regional and national level - from the link between citizens and local communities to supra-national and global organisations
o Part IV: covers recent developments in social scientific sustainability research which are both multi-scalar and interdisciplinary
Bringing together contributions from international social scientists, the book will be suitable for academic and non-academic audiences in sustainability research and will be a core teaching text for undergraduate and postgraduates on courses in sustainability and sustainable development, geography and the environmental sciences.