Description
Book SynopsisDraws on the wide-ranging experience of CSIRO's social scientists in the sustainability policy domain. This book describes some of the evidence-based concepts, frameworks and methodologies they have developed, which may guide a transition to sustainability. Contributions range from exploring ways to enhance livelihoods and alleviate poverty, to examining responses to climate change.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Why do we need a sociology of society’s natural relations to inform sustainable development?
- 3: Integration science for impact: fostering transformations towards sustainability
- 4: Integrating development studies and social-ecological systems thinking: towards livelihood adaptation pathways
- 5: Remote, marginal and sustainable? The key role of brokers and bridging institutions for stronger Indigenous livelihoods in Australia’s deserts
- 6: Sustainability science, place and regional differences: vulnerability and adaptive capacity in Sydney
- 7: A ‘hierarchy of needs’ for achieving impact in international Research for Development
- 8: The co-construction of environmental (instream) flows and associated cultural ecosystem services
- 9: Dipping in the well: how behaviours and attitudes influence urban water security
- 10: Making sense of Australians’ responses to climate change: insights from a series of five national surveysl
- 11: Innovation, sustainability and the promise of inclusion
- 12: Risk, sustainability and time: sociological perspectives
- 13: Policy-relevant research: improving the value and impact of the social sciences
- Index
