Overview
- Shed light on how sustainability science approaches can help solve some of the pervasive challenges that Africa faces
- Offers local case studies throughout Africa that adopt transdisciplinary and problem-oriented research approaches using methodologies from the natural and the social sciences
- Provides an authoritative source of information on how sustainability science approaches sustainability challenges in African contexts through the multi-scale and inter/transdisciplinary approach
Part of the book series: Science for Sustainable Societies (SFSS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Continental Perspectives
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Western Africa
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About this book
The aim of this 2-volume book is to highlight how Sustainability Science approaches can help solve some of the pervasive challenges that Africa faces. The volumes collect a number of local case studies throughout Africa that adopt transdisciplinary and problem-oriented research approaches using methodologies from the natural and the social sciences. These are put into perspective with chapters that introduce key sustainability challenges such using a regional focus. Through this multi-scale and inter/transdisciplinary approach the proposed volume will provide an authoritative source that will pack in a single volume a large amount of information on how Sustainability Science approaches sustainability challenges in African contexts. While there have been general books about sustainability science, none has had a strong African focus. As a result the 2-volume set fills a major gap in the Sustainability Science scholarship.
This volume sets the stage for the series. PartI introduces key sustainability challenges in Africa. Parts II‐III highlights specific case studies related to these challenges from West and Central Africa.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainability Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa I
Book Subtitle: Continental Perspectives and Insights from Western and Central Africa
Editors: Alexandros Gasparatos, Abubakari Ahmed, Merle Naidoo, Alice Karanja, Kensuke Fukushi, Osamu Saito, Kazuhiko Takeuchi
Series Title: Science for Sustainable Societies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4458-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-4457-6Published: 05 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-4460-6Published: 06 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-4458-3Published: 04 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2197-7348
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7356
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 360
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 59 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Natural Resources, Development and Sustainability