Science and Practice in the Sustainability Process
The chapter reviews changes in the relationship between science and practice in sustainable development. Such changes suggest that both knowledge processes and practices are insufficiently reflected in disciplinary knowledge cultures: production, dissemin
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Sustainability Social-Ecological Perspectives
Karl Bruckmeier
Economics and Sustainability
Karl Bruckmeier
Economics and Sustainability Social-Ecological Perspectives
Karl Bruckmeier Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Preface
Economic and ecological knowledge need to be combined with other scientific and practical knowledge in the social-ecological transformation towards a sustainable society. This long process began three decades ago and has not significantly advanced since then. The reasons for the delays and difficulties are clear, but to date they have not been sufficiently addressed in analyses of the sustainability process. Knowledge- and power-related conflicts and controversies between scientists, decision-makers and actors in the transformation process accompany the research and the practice of sustainable development. But the interdisciplinary integration and synthesis of knowledge from different disciplines create methodological and practical problems. These problems guide the discussion of economics and sustainability in this book. For example, the book discusses how to deal with knowledge gaps around the multi-scale process of sustainable development, with the limits of disciplinary knowledge on the complex problems to be solved in the sustainability process, and with interdisciplinary cooperation in the production, integration, dissemi
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