Table of Contents

Part 1: Issues in Sustainability Research 1. Sustainability Research: An Introduction 2. Directing an Inter-Disciplinary Sustainability Research Agenda Part 2: Approaches to Sustainability Research 3. Ethnographic Practices and the Practices of Biosecurity 4. Case Study Method in Sustainability Research 5. Striving for Mutuality in Research Relationships: The Value of Participatory Action Research principles 6. 'Spaces of Sustainability': Using Mobile Methods to Investigate the Space of a Farmers' Market 7. Elite and Elite-Lite Interviewing: Managing our Industrial Legacy 8. Grounding Rapidly Emerging Disciplines: The Fairtrade Towns Movement 9. Surveying the Field: Applying the Just Sustainability Paradigm to Survey Research 10. Making Sense of Climate Change: Notes on Interpretive Policy Analysis and Discourse Analysis in Sustainability Research 1 1. Mediating Sustainability: Constructivist Approaches to Sustainability Research 12. Negotiating the Terrain: Doing Research Abroad 13. Sustainable Futures: Futures Studies and Food Supply Systems Part 3: Disseminatin Sustainability Research 14. Generalising Sustainability Research: Some Reflections from a Study of Work-Life Integration 15. Engaging with Policy Makers: Influencing Sustainability Policy through Academic Research 16. Sustaining the extra-curricular: Communicating Sustainability Research to Children 17. Engaging the Media: an Academic's Sojourn in the Newsroom. Conclusion 18. Sustainability Science: a Forward Agenda

About the Author

Dr Alex Franklin is a Senior Fellow within BRASS, with considerable research experience across a range of sustainability areas. She has been an ESRC Fellow and recently completed a large-scale ESRC-funded project on community sustainability. She has published on aspects of sustainability in such journals as Journal of Law and Society, Journal of Environment and Planning, and International Planning Studies. Professor Paul Blyton is Professor of Industrial Relations and Industrial Sociology at Cardiff University and a Research Associate within BRASS. He is the author and editor of fifteen books, the latest of which is Ways of Living, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.