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Readings in Sustainability Science and Technology

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  • Robert W. Kates
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This Reader is one possible set of materials for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students of sustainability science. It consists of links to 93 articles or book chapters from which appropriate readings and internet sources can be chosen. These are organized around three major domains of sustainability science: Part 1: an overview of sustainable development; Part 2: the emerging science and technology of sustainability; and Part 3: the innovative solutions and grand challenges of moving this knowledge into action. The Readings begins with the history of sustainable development and its many concepts (1.1). Among these are the dual goals of sustainable development—the promotion of human development and well-being while protecting the earth’s life support systems. Thus, the current status, long-term trends, and impacts of nine essentials for human well-being (1.2) and seven of the essential life support systems (1.3) are examined. Part 1 concludes with the interactions of human society and the life support systems as these have been sketched—simply, realistically, and imaginatively (1.4). Part 2 of the Reader focuses on what, why, and how to do sustainability science and technology. It begins with three essential qualities of the emerging science: its use or needs orientation, focus on human-environment systems, and goal of integrated understanding (2.1). As a science in support of a sustainability transition, it is clearly value-driven and a second section of this Part considers the science of identifying and analyzing values and attitudes (2.2). The third and fourth sections examine the current practice of the science, the analyses undertaken (2.3), and the distinctive methods and models used (2.4). The distinctive knowledge created by sustainability science is use-inspired and, at its best, provides solutions to real-world, often place-based, problems encountered for the needs of a sustainability transition. Thus, the Reader ends with linking knowledge systems and action (3.1); examples of both global and local solutions to the needs of human well-being and the earth’s life support systems (3.2); and three critical needs that constitute grand challenges: poverty, climate change, and peace and security (3.3).

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  • Robert W. Kates, 2010. "Readings in Sustainability Science and Technology," CID Working Papers 213, Center for International Development at Harvard University.
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    Cited by:

    1. Iván González-Márquez & Víctor M. Toledo, 2020. "Sustainability Science: A Paradigm in Crisis?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(7), pages 1-18, April.
    2. Stanley D. Brunn, 2014. "Cyberspace Knowledge Gaps and Boundaries in Sustainability Science: Topics, Regions, Editorial Teams and Journals," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 6(10), pages 1-28, September.
    3. Jian Li & Kaan Ozbay, 2015. "Evacuation Planning with Endogenous Transportation Network Degradations: A Stochastic Cell-Based Model and Solution Procedure," Networks and Spatial Economics, Springer, vol. 15(3), pages 677-696, September.
    4. Robert W. Kates, 2011. "From the Unity of Nature to Sustainability Science: Ideas and Practice," CID Working Papers 218, Center for International Development at Harvard University.
    5. Roope Husgafvel, 2021. "Exploring Social Sustainability Handprint—Part 2: Sustainable Development and Sustainability," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(19), pages 1-35, October.
    6. Ryan Bergstrom, 2018. "Defining Sustainability in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem," Journal of Sustainable Development, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 11(1), pages 1-32, January.
    7. repec:lib:000cis:v:5:y:2017:i:1:p:35-42 is not listed on IDEAS
    8. Caroline L. Noblet & Laura A. Lindenfeld & Mark W. Anderson, 2013. "Environmental Worldviews: A Point of Common Contact, or Barrier?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 5(11), pages 1-18, November.

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    Keywords

    Sustainability Science; Sustainable Development; Environmental Policy; Sustainability Education; Environment and Development;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development
    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
    • Q57 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Ecological Economics
    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts

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