Transdisciplinary perspectives on transitions to sustainability

1. Contexts of transdisciplinarity : drivers, discourses and process / Gerard Mullally, Colin Sage and Edmond Byrne -- 2. Disciplines, perspectives and conversations / Gerard Mullally, Edmond Byrne and Colin Sage -- 3. Sustainability as contingent balance between opposing though interdependent tendencies : a process approach to progress and evolution / Edmond Byrne -- 4. Paradigmatic transformation across the disciplines : snapshots of an emerging complexity informed approach to progress, evolution and sustainability / Edmond Byrne -- 5. Fear and loading in the anthropocene : narratives of apocalypse and salvation in the irish media / Gerard Mullally -- 6. Bio-fuelling the Hummer? : transdisciplinary thoughts on techno-optimism and innovation in the transition from unsustainability / John Barry -- 7. The gulf between legal and scientific conceptions of ecological "integrity" : the need for a shared understanding in regulatory policy-making / Owen McIntyre and John O'Halloran -- 8. Precaution and prudence in sustainability : heuristic of fear and heuristic of love / Benedicte Sage-Fuller -- 9. Sustainable future ecological communities : on the absence and continuity of sacred symbols, sublime objects and charismatic heroes / Kieran Keohane -- 10. Using energy systems modelling to inform Ireland's low carbon future / Brian Gallachoir, Paul Deane and Alessandro Chiodi -- 11. Markets, productivism and the implications for irish rural sustainable development / Mary O'Shaughnessy and Colin Sage -- 12. Nanomaterials as an emerging category of environmental pollutants / David Sheehan -- 13. Sustaining interdisciplinarity? : reflections on an inter-institutional exchange by an early stage researcher / Stephan Maier, Michael Narodoslawsky and Gerard Mullally -- 14. In praise of intellectual promiscuity in the service of a "passion for sustainability" / John Barry -- 15. Transdisciplinarity within the university : emergent possibilities, opportunities, challenges and constraints / Edmond Byrne, Colin Sage and Gerard Mullally.