Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability from ...
...a Geography and Planning Perspective |
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| Dr. Constance Carr, Department of Geography and Spatial Planning |
Prof. Dr. Markus Hesse, Department of Geography and Spatial Planning |
| We view Sustainable Development as not simply the end-product of good intentions, appropriate technological innovations, or correctly designed policies, rather as a multi-dimensional, contradictory, and discursively constructed normative orientation (like “justice”, or “liberty”). In general, we seek to understand the role of this normative orientation in processes of urban transformation. In particular, we aim to reveal hidden dimensions of perceived policy gaps between Sustainable Development goals on the one hand, and limited policy achievements on the other... (more) Keywords: urban geography, urban policy, urban studies, human geography. |
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...a Sociological Perspective |
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...an Economic Perspective |
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| Prof. Dr. Louis Chauvel, Institute for Research on Socio-Economic Inequality |
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Prof. Dr. Conchita D'Ambrosio, Institute for Health and Behaviour |
| We adopt the Brundtland definition of sustainability to look at how individuals can shape their own individual development in a sustainable way. A sustainable path of growth entails facing the social and psychological challenges of development with a sensible and resilient use of individual skills, social connections and resources, institutional opportunities and constraints...(more) |
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Our view of sustainability stems from our research on well-being and inequality and points to the social-economic dimension of sustainability, which is one of the two fundamental pillars of Sustainable Development, along with the environment, according to the Brundtland Report. Therefore, the concept of sustainability, in our perspective, necessarily envisages an equal distribution of resources and opportunities and at the same time stresses the issue of an unequal effect of environmental degrade across different economic and social groups...(more) |
| Keywords: individual sustainability and resilience, welfare sustainability, psychological post-trauma recovery, failure in socialization process. |
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Keywords: inequality, well-being, relative deprivation. |
...a Political Science Perspective |
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...a Labour Economics Perspective |
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| Dr. Anna-Lena Högenauer, Institute of Political Science |
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Dr. Anthony Lepinteur, DBCS (Department of Cognitive and Behavioural Sciences) |
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| Our main reference is the definition of sustainable development in the Brundtland report: “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (...)”. |
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We view sustainability via the promotion of gender equality and decent work (which corresponds to the fifth and eight Sustainable Development Goals). We develop a research agenda aiming at understanding how labour markets can be (1) more inclusive and equal and (2) made of job of better quality... (more)
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| Keywords: resource management, international and interregional cooperation, international and interregional long-term planning. |
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Keywords: Labour Economics, Microapplied studies, Decent Work, Gender issues, Economic Insecurity, Labour Market Reforms.
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...a Sustainability Science Perspective |
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...Comparative Regional Perspective |
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| Dr. Ariane König, Institute for Applied Educational Sciences |
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Prof. Dr. Harlan Koff, Department of Geography and Spatial Planning |
| We engage in sustainability science, an approach to research that seeks to draw on different forms of science and expertise to improve our understanding of and repertoire of action on complex dynamic human-environment interactions. Our conception of sustainability is derived from ecology – it denotes long-lived biological systems... (more) |
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Sustainable development addresses political, economic and social processes that determine whether territories are at the service of their communities or communities are at the service of their territories... (more) |
| Keywords: sustainability science, transformative learning, social learning, scenario approaches, collaborative systems thinking, citizen science. |
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Keywords: human and environmental security, policy coherence for sustainable development, migration and sustainable development, comparative regional integration and sustainable development, sustainable development in cross-border regions. |
...a Communities and Commons Perspective |
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...an Environmental Economic Geography Perspective |
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| Dr. Gerald Taylor Aiken, Department of Geography and Spatial Planning |
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Prof. Dr. Christian Schulz, Department of Geography and Spatial Planning |
| We view sustainability in a constructively critical light, and look to its effects on the ground. This involved taking communities, or other local initiatives, and looking more closely at what sustainability does — or is claimed to so — within these empirical examples...(more) |
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We look at sustainability from the perspective of environmental economic geography and cross border governance. Sustainable development, in this realm, can be conceived as the governance mechanisms and societal innovation processes which are key to move towards a more sustainable society... (more) |
| Keywords: community, sustainability transitions, environmental geography. |
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Keywords: environmental economic geography, cross boarder governance, circular economy, cross-border spatial planning. |
...a Food Studies Perspective |
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...an Environmental Anthropology Perspective |
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Dr. Carmen Maganda, UNILU-INECOL collaborator |
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| We envision sustainability as a multi-scalar, everyday negotiation process during which different actors – ranging from individuals to multinationals, including all types of intermediary constellations – display and adapt multiple meanings, priorities and motivations of ‘responsible’ practices through interaction, according to their specific positions, means and constraints – in short, their worldview. Basically, a contested and co-constructed practice of resilience... (more) |
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I look at Sustainable Development as an imperative need to keep exploring the ways in which societies and actors can better engage in applied sustainable policies at different levels of governance as well as proactive local practices favoring the fairest possible development in different world regions... (more) |
| Keywords: foodscape-governance, food production and retail, food consumption, changes of practices, reflexivity, governmentality, policy gaps, gaps in everyday practices. |
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Keywords: social participation on natural resource management, water politics, comparative political ecology analysis in theory and practice. |
