Researching Sustainability : A Guide to Social Science Methods, Practice and Engagement (Hardcover)

Part 1: Issues in Sustainability Research 1. Sustainability Research: An Introduction 2. Directing an Inter-Disciplinary Sustainability Research Agenda Part 2: Approaches to Sustainability Research 3. Ethnographic Practices and the Practices of Biosecurity 4. Case Study Method in Sustainability Research 5. Striving for Mutuality in Research Relationships: The Value of Participatory Action Research principles 6. 'Spaces of Sustainability': Using Mobile Methods to Investigate the Space of a Farmers' Market 7. Elite and Elite-Lite Interviewing: Managing our Industrial Legacy 8. Grounding Rapidly Emerging Disciplines: The Fairtrade Towns Movement 9. Surveying the Field: Applying the Just Sustainability Paradigm to Survey Research 10. Making Sense of Climate Change: Notes on Interpretive Policy Analysis and Discourse Analysis in Sustainability Research 1 1. Mediating Sustainability: Constructivist Approaches to Sustainability Research 12. Negotiating the Terrain: Doing Research Abroad 13. Sustainable Futures: Futures Studies and Food Supply Systems Part 3: Disseminatin Sustainability Research 14. Generalising Sustainability Research: Some Reflections from a Study of Work-Life Integration 15. Engaging with Policy Makers: Influencing Sustainability Policy through Academic Research 16. Sustaining the extra-curricular: Communicating Sustainability Research to Children 17. Engaging the Media: an Academic's Sojourn in the Newsroom. Conclusion 18. Sustainability Science: a Forward Agenda