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Methods of Sustainability Research in the Social Sciences

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Methods of Sustainability Research in the Social Sciences

Frances Fahy, "Methods of Sustainability Research in the Social Sciences"
English | ISBN: 0857025228 | 2013 | 232 pages | EPUB | 3 MB

Sustainability is a key word in the environmental vocabulary informing how research projects in the social sciences are framed. This book provides a systematic and critical review of the key research methods used when studying sustainable strategies and outcomes. It is divided into four areas:
o Part I: examines the key challenges inherent to social scientific sustainability research, examining the issues involved in combining social and natural/physical research methods.
o Part II: covers methodologies aimed at the investigation of attitudes and behaviour observable at the local level - from families and households to individual organizations within communities
o Part III: looks at sustainability research at the regional and national level - from the link between citizens and local communities to supra-national and global organisations
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