2. A. M. M. Maruf Hossain. (2025). Thinking in Sustainability. Bright Life Series: Book #1. Center for Integrated Knowledge Invention, Melbourne, Australia. ISBN: 978-1-7643512-0-1 (paperback), 978-1-7643512-1-8 (hardcover), 978-1-7643512-2-5 (ebook).

Book Blurb: As an interesting notion to engage with, sustainability represents an approach and a ‘thought process’ that dictates an ideal way of looking at reality. ‘Thinking in Sustainability’ is the first book of ‘Bright Life Series’, where sustainability is approached in the light of research, education, and a ‘thought process’. Chapters 1-3 laid down the foundation of this work by addressing the intellectual root of the crisis of sustainability, and the need for the provision of an effective intellectual treatment of sustainability. Chapter 4 responded to this need in the light of my original research titled ‘The Intellectual Structure of Sustainability’, and produced the design of the necessary intellectual capability in an easy-to-apply format. The implications of this intellectual capability have, then, been detailed in Chapters 5-7 in the light of research, education, and the ‘thought process’ represented by sustainability, respectively. While Chapter 5 discussed 10 areas of fundamental research and five areas of problem-based research in pursuit of sustainability, Chapter 6 produced a detailed design of ‘sustainability education’ including its pedagogical basis. This pedagogical basis consists of eight pedagogical principles: (1) problems that are a part of real life, (2) making the abstract concrete, (3) dealing with a diversity of perspectives, (4) focus on the use of well-founded data, (5) focus on the effect of group reinforcement on individual contribution, (6) individuals as charged components of a creative, integrated circuit, (7) focus on deep work, not short-changed productivity, and (8) an aim to enhance capacity for both critical and integrative thinking. Drawing on Chapters 1-6, Chapter 7, then, synthesized four limbs to the ‘thought process’ represented by sustainability. These limbs have been synthesized in terms of: (a) direction and quality, (b) relevance and diversity, (c) area of focus, and (d) analytical integrity.

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