AuthorFahy, Frances
TitleMethods of sustainability research in the social sciences / Frances Fahy and Henrike Rau
Imprint Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE, 2013
Descript xiii, 213p. : ill, maps ; 25 cm

CONTENT

Sustainability research in the social sciences - concepts, methodologies and the challenge of interdisciplinarity. -- Household analysis: researching 'green' lifestyles, a survey approach. -- Social groups and collective decision-making: focus group approaches. -- Local lives and conflict: towards a methodology of dialogic research. -- Sustainable development of what? contesting global development concepts and measures. -- Biophysical indicators of society-nature interaction: material and energy flow analysis, human apprpriation of net primary production and the ecological footprint. -- Mapping for sustainability: environmental noise and the city. -- Everyday life in transition: biographical research. -- Time and sustainability. -- Researching complex sustainability issues: reflections on current challenges and future developments.


SUBJECT

  1. social sciences -- Research -- Methodology
  2. Sustainability -- Research -- Methodology

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Political Science Library338.927072 M592 CHECK SHELVES
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