Social Science and Sustainability

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Sustainability policies shape the ways that society and the economy interact with the environment, natural resources, and ecosystems, and they address issues such as water, energy and food security, and climate change. These policies are complex and are, at times, obscured by contestation, uncertainty, and sometimes ignorance. Ultimately, sustainability problems are social problems and they need to be addressed through social and policy change.

Social Science and Sustainability draws on the wide-ranging experience of CSIRO's social scientists in the sustainability policy domain. These researchers have extensive experience in addressing complex issues of societynature relationships, usually in interdisciplinary collaboration with natural scientists. This book describes some of the evidence-based concepts, frameworks, and methodologies they have developed, which may guide a transition to sustainability.

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Heinz Schandl has a PhD in sociology. He is a senior scientist at CSIRO in Canberra, honorary professor at the ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society and adjunct professor at Nagoya University in Japan. He is a member of the UNEP International Resource Panel. His research connects social theory, social metabolism and environment and sustainability policy.

Iain Walker is a social psychologist and Professor of Psychology at the University of Canberra. He was formerly a senior principal research scientist at CSIRO and Research Program Leader of the Social and Economic Sciences Program.