Framing in Sustainability Science

Part 1 Theoretical Approaches/ Theoretical Approaches to sustainability issues.- Theoretical and methodological pluralism in sustainability science.- Approaches for framing sustainability challenges: experiences from Swedish sustainability science education.- Part 2 Practical Approaches / Practical Approaches to sustainability issues.- The value of grey.- Framing in place making when envisioning a sustainable rural community in the time of aging and shrinking societies in Japan.- Role of Framing in sustainability science: The case of Minamata disease.- Time scales in framing disaster risk reduction in sustainability.- Food security framing and poverty alleviation.- Part 3 Conclusion/ Epilogue.- Linking framing to actions for sustainability.

Takashi Mino is a Professor at the Department of Socio-cultural Environmental Studies and Program Head of the Graduate Program in Sustainability Science at the University of Tokyo. In addition, he is Vice-Director of Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S). He specializes in Environmental Microbiology, Wastewater Engineering, and most recently, Sustainability Education. He holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of Tokyo, and has been a visiting scholar at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), visiting professor at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), and adjunct professor at the Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand). His courses at the graduate school include Sustainable Environmental Technology Systems, Advanced Concepts and Methodologies of Sustainability Science, and Frontiers of Sustainability Science. He also teaches Water and Wastewater Treatment Technology at the Faculty of Engineering, and Technology and Sustainable Development at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo. In addition to having published extensively, he is a member of several academic organizations, e.g. the International Water Association, International Society on Microbial Ecology, Japan Society on Water Environment, and Society of Environmental Instrumentation Control and Automation.