Description
Over the last few decades, the new discipline of sustainability science (SS) has evolved with a phenomenal rise in knowledge production, research, and publications, as well as the development of new academic programs and creation of centers and scientific communities, networks, and organizations. With pressing global environmental issues in the 21st century, SS has become an influential discipline and important subject of intellectual inquiry that deserves support from the academy and scientific communities worldwide to find solutions to global problems such as climate change, environmental degradation, and biodiversity loss.
Intellectual, Scientific, and Educational Influences on Sustainability Research is a concise and authoritative book that fills the crucial and unmet need for educational materials that integrates theoretical foundations, methodological basis, and practice in the science of sustainability. The goal of the book is to increase accessibility and use of educational and scientific knowledge among academic and non-academic audiences as it assembles the wisdom and insights from up-to-date scholarship and advances in this new discipline. Highlighting various topics such as biodiversity, public transportation, and human development, it is ideal for environmentalists, ecologists, technology developers, policymakers, academicians, researchers, and students.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Rosario Turvey (Ed.)
Rosario Turvey is Associate Professor of Sustainability Sciences and Geography at Lakehead University. She obtained her PhD in Geography from the University of Waterloo where she completed a Master in Applied Environmental Studies. She also holds a Master in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of the Philippines. She has been a PhD Fellow of the United Nations University’s Institute of Advanced Studies on Sustainability (UNU-IAS). As Development Economist, she served in projects of the United Nations Development Programme and the UN Office for Project Services in the South Pacific. Her research has been published in economic diplomacy, geography and sustainability science journals such as the International Journal in Diplomacy and Economy, International Journal of Society Systems Science, International Journal in Information Systems and Social Change, and the GeoJournal. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Social Science and Associate Editor for the Sustainability Collection, Common Ground Publishing. Recently, she co-edited a book on Environmental Sustainability published in 2016.