Overview

This open access book offers innovations in how sustainability is studied, taught, and practiced across academic and professional contexts. The book captures the richness of current principles and practice in sustainability from diverse geographical and academic perspectives. The reader is guided through four structured thematic sections: Teaching, Learning and Understanding ‘Sustainability’; Core Debates and Controversies in Sustainability; Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability in Practice; The Role of Higher Education and Academia in Sustainability. Designed as a hybrid publication, the book combines pedagogical features—such as study exercises and learning prompts—with the thematic depth of a scholarly edited volume. This format makes it invaluable for students, educators, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers seeking both foundational knowledge and advanced insights to sustainability research.

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Author:   Antje Brown ,  Sandra Gilgan
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783032138859

ISBN 10:   303213885
Pages:   614
Publication Date:   18 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Introducing Ways of Teaching and Learning in Sustainability.-  Chapter 2: Introducing the Concept of ‘Sustainability’ and Exploring its Adaptation within Research Contexts.- Chapter 3: Interdisciplinarity: A Core Theme and Practice in Sustainability Research.- Chapter 4: Sustainable Consumption: Foundations and Insights into a Sufficiency-based Circular Economy.-  Chapter 5: Rethinking Waste Management and the Circular Economy: Exploring transformative paradigms, opportunities and challenges.- Chapter 6: Critical Approaches to Environmental Conflicts in Latin America: An Expanding Field on Development and Sustainability Research.- Chapter 7: Towards design principles of nature-based solutions in informal settlements in Africa.- Chapter 8: Plural Sustainabilities: Diverging Perceptions and Practices of ‘Environmental Protection’ in Indonesia.- Chapter 9: Valuing environments for sustainable development: Considering monetary valuation of the environment and alternatives approaches.- Chapter 10: Embracing Uncertain Futures in Sustainable Development.- Chapter 11: Population Sustainability: bringing a population lens to critical sustainabilities.- 12: Remote Sensing for Sustainable Development Chapter 13: Science and Sustainable Development.- Chapter 14: Science-Policy Interfaces and Sustainable Development: Institutionally Bridging the Knowledge-Action Gap.- Chapter 15: Education for Sustainable Development in Mongolian Studies.- Chapter 16: Towards a sustainable university: policies, people and practices.- Chapter 17: Visibilising Boundary Work in Sustainability Research and Cooperation.

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Antje Brown is a Lecturer in Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews, UK, and originally from Berlin, with a Politics degree from Glasgow and a PhD from Stirling University. Antje has published on, and is particularly interested in, environmental politics, policy discourses, framings and implementations. Her involvement in a number of modules in Sustainable Development taught at various levels of the St Andrews degree programme inspired her to initiate this book project.   Sandra Gilgan is an academic manager and affiliated researcher at the University of Bonn, Germany. She studied and conducted research at the Universities of Münster, Trier, and Bonn, as well as at National Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan, and Xiamen University in China. As a cultural scientist, she is involved in several initiatives exploring ‘plural sustainabilities’. Her research interests include social movements, utopian thinking, and processes of social change. 

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