Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Endeavour offers a comprehensive overview of the contributions of the various disciplines to sustainability and of the possible synergies that could develop among them. The first part of the book covers sustainability science from each related scientific discipline, such as environmental science, engineering, medicine, and economy highlighting cross disciplinary pathways. The second half of the book offer insights into how each of the green sciences relates to the other green sciences and to the education to sustainability. Sustainability provides a framework for scientists and researchers in adjacent areas of sustainability to understand key issues.
Table of Contents
Section 1: Sustainability across disciplines 1. Green chemistry 2. Green physics 3. Green pharmacy 4. Environmental sciences and sustainability 5. Engineering and sustainability 6. Medicine and sustainability 7. Economy and sustainability 8. Ethics and sustainability
Section 2: Interdisciplinary collaboration for sustainability 9. Case studies in interdisciplinarity for sustainability (this could actually entail several chapters) 10. Decision-making for sustainability 11. Education for sustainability 12. Presenting sustainability to the public
Authors
Liliana L. Mammino Emeritus Professor, University of Venda, South Africa. Liliana Mammino is emeritus professor of the University of Venda, South Africa. She joined the university in 1997 and, alongside teaching a range of general and physical chemistry courses, has worked hard to establish and promote the development of computational chemistry research across the region. After graduating from the University of Pisa, Italy, she went on to receive her doctorate from Moscow State University, Russia, before going on to teach chemistry at the National University of Somalia, University of Zambia, and National University of Lesotho.Professor Mammino's main research areas are computational theoretical chemistry and chemical education, with particular attention to green chemistry education, and she has published over 40 papers across these areas. She is a member of the IUPAC Subcommittee on Green Chemistry, national representative of South Africa in IUPAC Division III and, in 2013, she was one of the recipients of the IUPAC Award for Distinguished Women in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.
