TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fahy,Frances
AU  - Rau,Henrike
AU  - Rau,Henrike
TI  - Methods of sustainability research in the social sciences
SN  - 9780857025210
U1  - 338.927072 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Los Angeles, London
PB  - SAGE
KW  - Sustainability
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Social sciences
N1  - Contents 
Part 1. Measuring the Immeasurable? The Challenges and Opportunities of sustainable research in the Social Sciences 

1. Sustainability Research in the Social Sciences Concepts Methodologies and the Challenge of Interdisciplinarity

Part II. Researching Local Lives: Experiences of (Un)sustainability among individuals, Households  and Communities 

2. Household Analysis: Researching 'green' lifestyles, a survey approach 
3. Social Groups and Collective Decision Making : Focus group approaches 
4. Local Lives and Conflict : Towards a methodology of dialogic research

Part III. Comparative Research on the Sustainability  Performance of Cities, Regions and Nation-states 

5. Sustainable Development  of What? Contesting global development  concepts and Measures
6. Biophysical Indicators of society -nature Interaction : Material and energy flow analysis, human appropriation of net primary production and ecological footprint
7. Mapping for Sustainability : Environmental Noise and the City

Part IV. Time in Focus 
8. Everyday life i Transition: Biographical research
9. Time and Sustainability

Part V, Current Developments and Future Trends 
10. Researching Complex Sustainability Issues : Reflections on current challenges and future developments; Includes bibliographical references and index; Sustainability research in the social sciences--concepts, methodologies and the challenge of interdisciplinarity / Henrike Rau and Frances Fahy
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