Description:
The book presents a social sciences' perspective on sustainable development contributing thus to transdisciplinary sustainability research, which means that it is oriented toward current problems, and not toward the established academic boundaries. The key aspect here is not the natural-scientific, but rather the humanistic aspect. This book advocates viewing sustainable development, not only as the establishment of a permanent, globally practicable and future-capable mode of life and economics, but rather as a complex array of problems, involving a wide range of social-scientific and humanistic disciplines - law, political science, sociology, economics, theology, psychology, philosophy.
Review Quotes:
"Theories of Sustainable Development is a Dense but always rewarding collection of cutting edge essays for advanced graduate students who deal with sustainable development, philosophy of justice, or sociology of science." - Yves Laberge, Electronic Green Journal