Overview
- Shed light on how sustainability science approaches can help solve some of the pervasive challenges that Africa faces
- Offers local case studies throughout Africa that adopt transdisciplinary and problem-oriented research approaches using methodologies from the natural and the social sciences
- Provides an authoritative source of information on how sustainability science approaches sustainability challenges in African contexts through the multi-scale and inter/transdisciplinary approach
Part of the book series: Science for Sustainable Societies (SFSS)
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The aim of this two-volume book series is to highlight some of the most pervasive sustainability challenges that Sub-Saharan Africa faces. The two volumes contain 20 chapters that illustrate very diverse sustainability challenges throughout the continent, adopting interdisciplinary and problem-oriented research approaches, and methods from the natural and the social sciences. The very diverse case study chapters are put into perspective with chapters that introduce key sustainability challenges using a regional focus. Through this multi-scale and interdisciplinary approach the two volumes provide an authoritative source about the major sustainability challenges in the continent, and how to mobilise such perspectives to develop appropriate solutions. The two volumes have a uniquely broad focus that fills a major gap in the emerging Sustainability Science scholarship.
Parts I-II highlight specific case studies onmajor sustainability challenges from Eastern and Southern Africa. Part III synthesizes the main lessons learnt from the chapters in the two edited volumes.
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Eastern Africa
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Southern Africa
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainability Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa II
Book Subtitle: Insights from Eastern and Southern Africa
Editors: Alexandros Gasparatos, Merle Naidoo, Abubakari Ahmed, Alice Karanja, Kensuke Fukushi, Osamu Saito, Kazuhiko Takeuchi
Series Title: Science for Sustainable Societies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5358-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5357-8Published: 06 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5360-8Published: 07 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-5358-5Published: 05 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2197-7348
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7356
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 268
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Natural Resources, Development and Sustainability