Personal Sustainability: Exploring the Far Side of Sustainable Development

Transition to sustainability is still stuck. The human, individual, inner as well as the cultural, immaterial aspects are often left untreated. This book argues that increased research into the emerging field of personal sustainability will help jump start progress towards a sustainable world.

Author: Oliver Parodi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/19/2018
Pages: 214
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781138065086

About the Author

Oliver Parodi, philosopher and engineer, is Managing Director of the KIT-Centre Humans and Technology and Director of the Karlsruhe School of Sustainability at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. His research focus lies in culture and/of sustainability, transdisciplinary sustainability science and personal sustainability.

Kaidi Tamm is a research associate at the Karlsruhe School of Sustainability at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. With a background in culture studies, sociology and political science, her research binds empirical and theoretical approaches and focuses on the participatory and qualitative aspects of sustainability transition.