Overview
- Promotes social and environmental justice through fostering job creation towards sustainable development
- Explores ways to protect “wellbeing stocks” for current and future generations through representation and accountability
- Identifies how Indonesia, Africa and Australia are affected by demographics, climate change and people movements, but also how these regions can establish an effective cultural ecosystem management
Part of the book series: Contemporary Systems Thinking (CST)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Part II
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Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Her research addresses social justice issues such as health, housing and social inclusion and the mitigation and adaptation to climate change. She addresses complex needs by exploring the meanings and ‘what if’ questions with diverse stakeholders. She has written several books including: ‘Systemic Governance and Accountability’, Springer and ‘User-centric Policy Design to address Complex Needs’. She is chair of the International Systems Special Integration Group, entitled: ‘Balancing individualism and Collectivism’ and in the past was elected threetimes to Research Committee 10 on Organizational Transformation of the International Sociological Association.
Her recent research addresses non anthropocentric policy for living systems. In 2017 her volumes for the Springer Contemporary Systems Series address the challenge to re-generate living systems. The sole authored volume is entitled: ‘Planetary Passport for Representation, Accountability and Re-Generation and the edited volume together with Professors Romm and Corcoran Nantes is entitled : ‘Balancing Individualism and Collectivism: Social and Environmental Justice’. The latter comprises collected papers from the Special Integration Group for International Systems Sciences which McIntyre chairs together with 16 international contributors, including early career researchers. The research seeks a better balance across social, cultural, political, economic and environmental interspecies concerns to ensure a sustainable futurefor current and future generations. The ecological citizen uses a ‘planetary passport’ to track the distribution and redistribution of resources in the interests of social and environmental justice. Engagement links high level challenges with individual perspectives, facilitating nuanced investigation of the complex ethical challenge of closing the gap in life chances. The central argument looks for ways to hold the powerful to account so as to enable virtuous living by the majority in a ‘planetary passport’ that demonstrates a careful use of resources and a way to protect habitat for living systems.
Norma R. A. Romm (DLitt et Phil, Sociology) is Research Professor in the Department of Adult Basic Education and Youth Development, the University of South Africa. She is the author of The Methodologies of Positivism and Marxism (Macmillan, 1991), Accountability in Social Research (Springer, 2001), New Racism (Springer, 2010), ResponsibleResearch Practice (2018, Springer), People’s Education in Theoretical Perspective (with V. McKay, Longman, 1992), Diversity Management (with R. Flood, Wiley, 1996), and Assessment of the Impact of HIV and AIDS in the Informal Economy of Zambia (with V. McKay, ILO, 2008). She has co-edited three books—Social Theory (with M. Sarakinsky, Heinemann, 1994), Critical Systems Thinking (with R. Flood, Plenum, 1996) and Balancing Individualism and Collectivism (with J. McIntyre-Mills and Y. Corcoran-Nantes) She has published more than 100 research articles on the contribution of research to social development, the way in which research can be practised accountably, Indigenous ways of knowing and living, and the facilitation of adult learning. She has worked on a range of projects aimed at increasing equity for organizations such as the ILO, ADEA, IOM, and UNESCO.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mixed Methods and Cross Disciplinary Research
Book Subtitle: Towards Cultivating Eco-systemic Living
Editors: Janet McIntyre-Mills, Norma R. A. Romm
Series Title: Contemporary Systems Thinking
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04993-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04992-8Published: 24 July 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04993-5Published: 12 July 2019
Series ISSN: 1568-2846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 464
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour
Topics: Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Policy, Employee Health and Wellbeing