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Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Transitions to Sustainability

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Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Transitions to Sustainability

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Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Transitions to Sustainability book

Edited ByEdmond Byrne, Gerard Mullally, Colin Sage
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 21 June 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315550206
Pages 268
eBook ISBN 9781315550206
Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Education, Environment and Sustainability, Geography, Social Sciences
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Byrne, E., Mullally, G., & Sage, C. (Eds.). (2016). Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Transitions to Sustainability (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315550206

ABSTRACT

Demonstrating how a university can, in a very practical and pragmatic way, be re-envisioned through a transdisciplinary informed frame, this book shows how through an open and collegiate spirit of inquiry the most pressing and multifaceted issue of contemporary societal (un)sustainability can be addressed and understood in a way that transcends narrow disciplinary work. It also provides a practical exemplar of how far more meaningful deliberation, understandings and options for action in relation to contemporary sustainability-related crises can emerge than could otherwise be achieved. Indeed it helps demonstrate how only through a transdisciplinary ethos and approach can real progress be achieved. The fact that this can be done in parallel to (or perhaps underneath) the day-to-day business of the university serves to highlight how even micro seed initiatives can further the process of breaking down silos and reuniting C.P. Snow’s ‘two cultures’ after some four centuries of the relentless project of modernity. While much has been written and talked about with respect to both sustainability and transdisciplinarity, this book offers a pragmatic example which hopefully will signpost the ways others can, will and indeed must follow in our common quest for real progress.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part 1|62 pages

Setting the scene

chapter 1|18 pages

Contexts of transdisciplinarity

Drivers, discourses and process
ByGerard Mullally, Colin Sage, Edmond Byrne

chapter 2|20 pages

Disciplines, perspectives and conversations

ByGerard Mullally, Edmond Byrne, Colin Sage

chapter 3|22 pages

Sustainability as contingent balance between opposing though interdependent tendencies

A process approach to progress and evolution
ByEdmond Byrne

part 2|156 pages

Transdisciplinary conversations and conceptions

chapter 4|18 pages

Paradigmatic transformation across the disciplines

Snapshots of an emerging complexity informed approach to progress, evolution and sustainability
ByEdmond Byrne

chapter 5|23 pages

Fear and loading in the Anthropocene

Narratives of apocalypse and salvation in the Irish media
ByGerard Mullally

chapter 6|18 pages

Bio-fuelling the Hummer?

Transdisciplinary thoughts on techno-optimism and innovation in the transition from unsustainability
ByJohn Barry

chapter 7|17 pages

The gulf between legal and scientific conceptions of ecological ‘integrity’

The need for a shared understanding in regulatory policymaking
ByOwen McIntyre, John O’Halloran

chapter 8|17 pages

Precaution and prudence in sustainability

Heuristic of fear and heuristic of love
ByBénédicte Sage-Fuller

chapter 9|12 pages

Sustainable future ecological communities

On the absence and continuity of sacred symbols, sublime objects and charismatic heroes
ByKieran Keohane

chapter 10|16 pages

Using energy systems modelling to inform Ireland’s low carbon future

ByBrian Ó Gallachóir, Paul Deane, Alessandro Chiodi

chapter 11|14 pages

Markets, productivism and the implications for Irish rural sustainable development

ByMary O’Shaughnessy, Colin Sage

chapter 12|19 pages

Nanomaterials as an emerging category of environmental pollutants

ByDavid Sheehan

part 3|25 pages

Conclusions

chapter 13|12 pages

Sustaining interdisciplinarity?

Reflections on an inter-institutional exchange by an early stage researcher
ByStephan Maier, Michael Narodoslawsky, Gerard Mullally

chapter 14|4 pages

In praise of intellectual promiscuity in the service of a ‘passion for sustainability’

ByJohn Barry

chapter 15|7 pages

Transdisciplinarity within the university

Emergent possibilities, opportunities, challenges and constraints
ByEdmond Byrne, Colin Sage, Gerard Mullally
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