Mapping Environmental Sustainability: Reflecting on Systemic Practices for Participatory Research

Description

Drawing on the editors' own experiences based on different systemic concepts and theories, Mapping environmental sustainability explains the development of visual mapping techniques with practical case studies that describe their application in environmental sustainability projects. Each case study provides a 'real world' project example from researchers with extensive experience of using these techniques to research different aspects of environmental sustainability over several decades.

Dr Sue Oreszczyn is a Research Fellow at the Open University. She is also a Fellow of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce). Andy Lane is Professor of Environmental Systems, The Open University. He is a member of the Chartered Institute for Ecology and Environmental Management, a Chartered Environmentalist and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

"An invaluable resource for all researchers interested in participatory methods for mapping environmental sustainability, covering both systemic concepts and practical realities." Dr Julie Ingram, Countryside & Community Research Institute, University of Gloucestershire "Inspiring and pathbreaking, the importance of this book extends beyond the crucial role of visual methods in transdisciplinary research to address the deepest challenges of sustainability itself." Professor Andrew Stirling, University of Sussex, UK.