Sustainability Methods and Perspectives Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction to Sustainability

1. The Three Pillars of Sustainability
2. History of Sustainability
3. Sustainability Grand Challenges

Chapter 2: Sustainability Science

1. What is sustainability science?
2. Characteristics of sustainability science
3. Concepts and applications of sustainability
4. Approaches to solving Grand Challenges or Wicked Problems

Chapter 3: The Role of Universities in Advancing and Promoting Sustainability

1. What is a sustainable university?
2. Why are sustainable universities important?
3. Areas that universities can target to be more sustainable
4. Bottom-up vs. top-down approaches
5. External benchmarks/rating systems
6. Challenges

Chapter 4: Business as Sustainability Actors

1. What is a Circular Economy?
2. The Triple Bottom Line
3. Shared Value
   • Reconceiving products
   • Redefining productivity
   • Industry Clusters
4. Business Today
5. Collective Action

Chapter 5: The Role of Municipalities in Advancing Sustainability

1. Land Use Ordinances and Zoning
2. Comprehensive Planning
3. Smart Growth
4. Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

Chapter 6: Nonprofits in Sustainability

1. The Importance of Non-profits to Sustainability
2. What is a Non-profit?
3. Non-profit Functions
4. Assisting Marginalized Groups
5. Partnerships
6. Non-profits and the Government
7. Funding

Chapter 7: Individual Action

1. Importance of Individual Action
2. What is Individual Action?
3. Barriers to Change
4. Methods to Reach Individuals

Chapter 8: Creating Collaborative Teams and Processes

1. What is collaboration?
2. Process and benefits
3. Horizontal Management
4. Levels of collaboration
5. Collaboration challenges

Chapter 9: Ways of Knowing

1. What is Knowledge?
2. 4 Types of Knowledge
   • Foundational
   • Generalized
   • Artistic
   • Practical
3. Producing Knowledge
4. Knowledge to Action

Chapter 10: Ethics in Sustainability

1. What is ethics?
2. Ethics in Sustainability
3. The 3 Pillars and Ethics
4. Environmental Ethics vs Sustainability
5. Challenges of ethics in sustainability

Chapter 11: Inter- and Transdisciplinary Approaches

1. Defining Interdisciplinary and phases of the process
2. Benefits and challenges of IDR
3. Defining Transdisciplinary and phases of the process
4. Benefits and challenges of TDR
5. How they differ

Chapter 12: Co-production of Knowledge

1. Defining co-production
2. Challenges to co-production
3. Benefits of co-production

Chapter 13: Boundary Work in Sustainability Science

1. What is boundary work?
2. Boundary objects and Boundary spanning
3. Boundary work in TDR

Chapter 14: Citizen Science

1. What is citizen science?
2. History of citizen science
3. Types of citizen science
4. Successful Practices
5. Citizen Science in Co-production

Chapter 15: Knowledge to Action

1. Linking Knowledge to Action
2. Salient, Credible, and Legitimate
3. How to support and ensure action throughout
4. Knowledge useful in sustainability
5. Barriers to linking knowledge to action

Chapter 16: Three Relevant Case Studies

1. Case Study #1: Wagon Hill Farm
2. Case Study #2: Tides to Storms
3. Case Study #3: Vernal Pools