INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES AND STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The book entitled: “Interdisciplinary Approaches and Strategies for Sustainable Development” is focused on an interdisciplinary approach involving team members from different disciplines working collaboratively, with a common purpose, to set goals, make decisions and share resources and responsibilities.
“Many streams of knowledge have a contribution to make in bringing the ideas of sustainability from theory to practice: economics, ecology, systems theory, the health sciences, engineering and applied science, community planning, law, business management, performance measurement and progress assessment, and so on. Each of these can provide a doorway into the theory and application of sustainability ideas. However, the real power of applying the ideas of sustainability comes from a capacity to integrate and synthesise rather than split apart in bounded categories” (IISD 2002).
the present book study takes stock of the status of sustainability appraisal. For present purposes, sustainability appraisal is broadly defined to encompass a range of equivalent terms such as sustainability impact assessment and strategic impact assessment. It is taken to include approaches that are used to integrate or inter-relate the environmental, social and economic (ESE) pillars of sustainability into decision-making on proposed initiatives at all levels, from policy to projects and particularly within or against a framework of sustainability principles, indicators or strategies. Others recognize more than three intersecting pillars, for example including institutions or politics or distinguishing between social and cultural dimensions of sustainability.
So, this is the right opportunity and platform for the academician, educationalist, readers, teachers & students to express their views and thoughts about Sustainable Development through this book.