New Book Available
Sustainability Networks: Cognitive Tools for Expert Collaboration in
Social-Ecological Systems
By Janne Hukkinen
Published by Routledge
For further information, please go to:
http://www.routledgeeconomics.com/books/Sustainability-Networks-isbn978…
Sustainability is a word that means different things depending on who is
using it. In his new book, "Sustainability Networks: Cognitive Tools for Expert
Collaboration in Social-Ecological Systems," Janne Hukkinen argues for a
reflexive approach to sustainability as a means of coming to grips with the
threatening challenges arising from human-environment interaction. The
author illustrates his argument with a case study of natural resource
management in Lapland, showing how sustainability is understood
holistically by academics and professionals alike.
"Sustainability Networks" reflects an emerging cognitive turn in
sustainability sciences, conceptualizing environmental challenges during
action on our social and material environments, rather than in
isolation. Hukkinen argues that this conceptual blending enables
sustainability experts to hybridize themselves: to immerse themselves in
the fields of other experts and imagine the other's work - both
prerequisites of trans-disciplinary knowledge integration. This book
shows how sustainability experts can reveal their intellectual
engagements when designing scenarios and indicators, and presents a
rigorous framework for organizing expert collaboration.
Students engaged in interdisciplinary approaches to environmental policy
and management, sustainability strategy, and science and technology
studies will find this book interesting.
Janne Hukkinen is Professor of Environmental Policy at the University of
Helsinki. He is the author of Institutions in Environmental Management
(1999) also published by Routledge.
For further information, please go to:
http://www.routledgeeconomics.com/books/Sustainability-Networks-isbn978…