Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Transitions to Sustainability

Dr Edmond Byrne is Senior Lecturer in Process & Chemical Engineering at University College Cork, Ireland.Dr Gerard Mullally is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at University College Cork, Ireland.Dr Colin Sage is Senior Lecturer in Geography at University College Cork, Ireland. All three are lead collaborators on the ‘Sustainability in Society’ transdisciplinary research group at University College Cork, Ireland.

• Part 1: Setting the Scene Contexts of Transdisciplinarity: Drivers, Discourses & ProcessGerard Mullally, Colin Sage and Edmond Byrne Disciplines, Perspectives and ConversationsGerard Mullally, Edmond Byrne and Colin Sage Sustainability as Contingent Balance between Opposing though Interdependent Tendencies; A Process Approach to Progress and Evolution Edmond Byrne Part 2: Transdisciplinary Conversations and Conceptions Paradigmatic Transformation across the Disciplines; Snapshots of an Emerging Complexity Informed Approach to Progress, Evolution and SustainabilityEdmond Byrne Fear and Loading in the Anthropocene: Narratives of Apocalypse and Salvation in the Irish MediaGerard Mullally Bio-fuelling the Hummer? Transdisciplinary Thoughts on Techno-Optimism and Innovation in the Transition from UnsustainabilityJohn Barry The Gulf between Legal and Scientific Conceptions of Ecological ‘Integrity’: The Need for a Shared Understanding in Regulatory Policy-MakingOwen McIntyre and John O'Halloran Precaution and Prudence in Sustainability: Heuristic of Fear and Heuristic of LoveBénédicte Sage-Fuller Sustainable Future Ecological Communities: On the Absence and Continuity of Sacred Symbols, Sublime Objects and Charismatic HeroesKieran Keohane Using Energy Systems Modelling to Inform Ireland’s Low Carbon FutureBrian Ó Gallachóir, Paul Deane and Alessandro Chiodi Markets, Productivism and the Implications for Irish Rural Sustainable DevelopmentMary O’Shaughnessy and Colin Sage Nanomaterials as an Emerging Category of Environmental PollutantsDavid Sheehan Part 3: Conclusions Sustaining Interdisciplinarity? Reflections on an Inter-institutional Exchange by an Early Stage ResearcherStephan Maier, Michael Narodoslawsky and Gerard Mullally In Praise of Intellectual Promiscuity in the Service of a ‘Passion for Sustainability’John Barry Transdisciplinarity within the University: Emergent Possibilities, Opportunities, Challenges and Constraints Edmond Byrne, Colin Sage and Gerard Mullally