Sustainability Networks: Cognitive Tools for Expert Collaboration in Social-Ecological Systems

ISBN-13: 9780415619790 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str.

Hukkinen, Janne

Opis

Janne Hukkinen takes an innovative approach in focusing on interactions among scientists in the important field of environmental management and protection and the emergence and application of policies. His critique is used to propose actions to overcome the conflicts that exist in sustainable development regimes.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.