Sustainability Science: A Multidisciplinary Approach

By Hiroshi Komiyama

Sustainability science is a new academic discipline emerging in response to threatened sustainability of the global environment. The purpose of this discipline is to help build a sustainable society by developing solutions to climate change, resource exhaustion, ecological destruction, and other environmental crises that threaten humanity.

Sustainability science demands a realignment of existing academic disciplines. Whereas academia has moved inexorably toward fields of in-depth specialization, sustainability science seeks comprehensive, integrated solutions to complex problems. It therefore requires a restructuring of education and research that spans multiple disciplines.

This volume offers diverse approaches to the development of a transdisciplinary perspective that embraces the natural, social, and human sciences in the quest for a sustainable society. It strives for a global perspective while incorporating the wisdom and experience of societies on the local level.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9280811800
• ISBN13: 9789280811803
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: United Nations
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.2"