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Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
PART 1 Setting the scene
1 Contexts of transdisciplinarity: drivers, discourses and process
2 Disciplines, perspectives and conversations
3 Sustainability as contingent balance between opposing though interdependent tendencies: a process approach to progress and evolution
PART 2 Transdisciplinary conversations and conceptions
4 Paradigmatic transformation across the disciplines: snapshots of an emerging complexity informed approach to progress, evolution and sustainability
5 Fear and loading in the Anthropocene: narratives of apocalypse and salvation in the Irish media
6 Bio-fuelling the Hummer? Transdisciplinary thoughts on techno-optimism and innovation in the transition from unsustainability
7 The gulf between legal and scientific conceptions of ecological βintegrityβ: the need for a shared understanding in regulatory policymaking
8 Precaution and prudence in sustainability: heuristic of fear and heuristic of love
9 Sustainable future ecological communities: on the absence and continuity of sacred symbols, sublime objects and charismatic heroes
10 Using energy systems modelling to inform Irelandβs low carbon future
11 Markets, productivism and the implications for Irish rural sustainable development
12 Nanomaterials as an emerging category of environmental pollutants
PART 3 Conclusions
13 Sustaining interdisciplinarity? Reflections on an inter-institutional exchange by an early stage researcher
14 In praise of intellectual promiscuity in the service of a βpassion for sustainabilityβ
15 Transdisciplinarity within the university: emergent possibilities, opportunities, challenges and constraints
Index