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Handbook of Sustainability Science and Research

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Editors:
  1. Walter Leal Filho

    1. Faculty of Life Sciences, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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  • Provides tangible examples from various countries of how the link between sustainable development and research may be pursued
  • Provides an interdisciplinary perspective and reflective analysis
  • Focuses on the key area of sustainability science and research that has not yet been fully explored
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: World Sustainability Series (WSUSE)

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Table of contents (61 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Political, Social and Economic Dimensions of Sustainable Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Lessons Learned for Decision-Makers During a 5-Year Research Period on Sustainability Problems at the Galileo University in Guatemala

      • Nelson Amaro
      Pages 3-23

    3. Using Design Thinking and Facebook to Accompany Women in Solving Water Problems in Morocco

      • Diane Pruneau, Boutaina El Jai, Abdellatif Khattabi, Sara Benbrahim, Joanne Langis
      Pages 25-40

    4. A Critical Review of the Role of Indicators in Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals

      • Simon Mair, Aled Jones, Jonathan Ward, Ian Christie, Angela Druckman, Fergus Lyon
      Pages 41-56

    5. A Minor Matter of Great Concern: The Different Sustainability Logics of ‘Societal Benefits’ and ‘Socio-economic Profit’

      • Johan Hultman, Filippa Säwe
      Pages 57-70

    6. Corporate Sustainable Strategies in Dom Pedro I Industrial Road Axis, São Paulo, Brazil

      • João Luiz de Moraes Hoefel, Sônia Regina da Cal Seixas, Micheli Kowalczuk Machado
      Pages 71-85

    7. Water Resources in the Context of Global Environmental Change: Some Perspectives for Sustainability

      • Sônia Regina da Cal Seixas, João Luiz de Moraes Hoefel, Paul Barrett
      Pages 87-102

    8. Knowledge and Awareness of Sustainability in Saudi Arabian Public Universities

      • N. Alghamdi
      Pages 103-127

    9. Urban Agriculture in Cape Town: Building Sustainable Livelihoods

      • D. W. Olivier
      Pages 129-143

    10. Fostering Sustainable Communities and Resilient Cities Whilst Supporting ‘Life on Land’ Through a Colombian School’s Initiative

      • J. Figueroa Vélez, V. Ruiz Vargas, L. M. Hoyos, A. Prowse
      Pages 145-160

    11. Teaching Food Security to Low-Income Rural Families in the United States

      • Taylor Hinton, Kerstin Martin, Eric Pallant
      Pages 161-175

    12. A Holistic Approach to Embedding Social Responsibility and Sustainability in a University—Fostering Collaboration Between Researchers, Students and Operations

      • Liz Cooper, Dave Gorman
      Pages 177-192

    13. Multi-stakeholder Partnerships (SDG #17) as a Means of Achieving Sustainable Communities and Cities (SDG #11)

      • Adriane MacDonald, Amelia Clarke, Lei Huang, Mark Roseland, M. May Seitanidi
      Pages 193-209

    14. Pioneering in Sustainability Reporting in Higher Education: Experiences of a Belgian Business Faculty

      • K. Ceulemans, T. Stough, W. Lambrechts
      Pages 211-231

    15. The Challenges of Implementing Sustainable Development Goals in Brazil: An Analysis Based on the Outcomes of the Brazilian Millennium Development Goals

      • João Marcelo Pereira Ribeiro, Sthefanie Aguiar da Silva, Vitória Haendchen Fornasari, Larissa Pereira Cipoli Ribeiro, Pedro Sabino Parente, José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra
      Pages 233-251

    16. Corporate Policies on Rights and Engagement of Communities: Alternatives and Advances

      • Noemi Bonina, Marcelo J. Meiriño, José Abadia Ribeiro
      Pages 253-265

    17. Local Sustainability Indicators and Their Role in the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in the HE Sector

      • Victoria Hands, Richard Anderson
      Pages 267-283

    18. Putting the ‘Social’ into Sustainability Science

      • Carolyn Kagan, Mark H. Burton
      Pages 285-298

  3. Environmental, Social and Technological Dimensions of Sustainable Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 299-299
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About this book

This multidisciplinary handbook explores concrete case studies which illustrate how sustainability science and research can contribute to the realization of the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It contains contributions from sustainability researchers from across the world.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Life Sciences, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

About the editor

Professor Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSC, DPhil, DL, DEd, DLit) is a professor at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, and at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is the founding director of the World Sustainable Development Research and Transfer Centre, a recently created centre aimed at supporting the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. He has nearly 30 years experience on matters related to sustainable development, and has in excess of 300 publications to his credit.

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