Development and Sustainability

Alberto D. Cimadamore is scientific director of CROP. He is a professor at the University of Buenos Aires and a researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research of Argentina (currently on leave). His research and publications are focused on the political economy of poverty, the international relations of poverty and development, and regional integration in Latin America.Fungisai P. Gwanzura Ottemöller is associate professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Development at UiB. She has done research on common mental disorders and on HIV prevention with primary school children (in Zimbabwe), and child participation in schools (in Scotland). Fungisai teaches in the master’s programme in health promotion and health psychology. Her current research interests are immigrant children and families’ experiences of the Norwegian child welfare system, child participation and early intervention.Maurice B. Mittelmark is professor of health promotion at the Department of Health Promotion and Development at UiB. His research and publications are focused on philosophy and methods of health promotion research, salutogenesis and resources for health, transdisciplinary collaboration for health promotion, and child health in former colonial regions.Gro Therese Lie is a professor at UiB’s Department of Health Promotion and Development and former director of UiB Global, as well as a social, community and cross-cultural psychologist. She has worked on health promotion challenges in sub-Saharan Africa for twenty-seven years: prevention of and coping with HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health, gender and generation, orphans and vulnerable children, and grassroots movements. She has also worked for UNDP as a consultant and research leader of multidisciplinary research groups. Her interests include participatory action research and movements for social change.

Achieving the shared goals of the international community calls not just for finance and political commitment – important though they are, but for fundamentally new ideas. This collection convincingly makes the case that transdisciplinary approaches to sustainability offer a matrix for such ideas.

• Foreword by Dag Rune Olsen1. Development and Sustainability Science: Transdisciplinary Knowledge for Positive Social Change - Alberto D. Cimadamore, Fungisai P. Gwanzura Ottemöller, Gro Therese Lie and Maurice B. Mittelmark2. Seeking Wisdom: A Transdisciplinary Perspective on Australian Indigenous Practices and Planetary Management - Mark G. Edwards3. Policies for Poverty Reduction in a Transformative Green Economy - Enrique Delamonica4. Health Promotion and Sustainable Development in Kazakhstan - Altyn Aringazina5. Children's Literacy in Health and Sustainability - Neil Chadborn and Jane Springett6. Participatory Research as a Tool for Change in Ecosystem Approaches to Health and Social Equity - Jane Springett7. Connecting Development and Sustainability: Empowering People to Effective International Cooperation - Cristine Koehler Zanella8. Sustainability and Transdisciplinary Knowledge: Experience Gained and Challenges Ahead - Gro Therese Lie, Alberto D. Cimadamore, Maurice B. Mittelmark and Fungisai P. Gwanzura Ottemöller