
Barry Ness
Senior Lecturer, Docent

Approaches for Framing Sustainability Challenges : Experiences from Swedish Sustainability Science Education
Author
Summary, in English
Sustainability challenges are defined by their complex and multifaceted interactions between nature and society and contention as to how and where to direct problem-solving efforts. This chapter presents four different approaches that exist for framing sustainability challenge areas that are introduced and worked with by students in LUMES International Master Programme in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science at Lund University in Sweden. The approaches include the (1) Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework, (2) causal loop diagrams (CLDs), (3) multi-scale and level perspective, including transition theory and management, and the SES framework. Each approach is described and critically assessed, especially from the perspective of student mastery. The outcome of the chapter is a more comprehensive understanding of which approaches are useful for different sustainability problem constellations and a deeper comprehension of how the framing tools can be taught in sustainability science education.
Department/s
- LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
Publishing year
2019-11-13
Language
English
Pages
35-53
Publication/Series
Framing in Sustainability Science : Theoretical and Practical Approaches
Document type
Book chapter
Publisher
Springer
Topic
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Keywords
- Framing approaches
- Sustainability education
- DPSIR
- Transition theory
- SES framework
- Sweden
- CLDs
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 978-981-13-9061-6
- ISBN: 978-981-13-9060-9