The aim of this 2-volume book is to highlight how Sustainability Science approaches can help solve some of the pervasive challenges that Africa faces. The volumes collect a number of local case studies throughout Africa that adopt transdisciplinary and problem-oriented research approaches using methodologies from the natural and the social sciences. These are put into perspective with chapters that introduce key sustainability challenges such using a regional focus. Through this multi-scale and inter/transdisciplinary approach the proposed volume will provide an authoritative source that will pack in a single volume a large amount of information on how Sustainability Science approaches sustainability challenges in African contexts. While there have been general books about sustainability science, none has had a strong African focus. As a result the 2-volume set fills a major gap in the Sustainability Science scholarship.

This volume sets the stage for the series. PartI introduces key sustainability challenges in Africa. Parts IIIII highlights specific case studies related to these challenges from West and Central Africa.

Shed light on how sustainability science approaches can help solve some of the pervasive challenges that Africa faces Offers local case studies throughout Africa that adopt transdisciplinary and problem-oriented research approaches using methodologies from the natural and the social sciences Provides an authoritative source of information on how sustainability science approaches sustainability challenges in African contexts through the multi-scale and inter/transdisciplinary approach

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Sustainability challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).- 2. Enabling sustainable bioenergy transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: strategic issues for achieving climate-compatible development.- 3. Linking industrial crop production and food security in sub-Saharan Africa: local, national and continental perspectives.- Large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa and corporate social responsibility (CSR): Insights from Italian investments.- Determinants of foreign investment and international aid for meeting the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa: a visual cognitive review of the literature.- Perceived community resilience to floods and droughts induced by climate change in semi-arid Ghana.- Linking rural livelihoods and fuelwood demand from mangroves and upland forests in the coastal region of Guinea.- Strategic partnerships between universities and non-academic institutions for sustainability and innovation: Insights fromthe University of Ghana.- Long-term vegetation change in central Africa: the need for an integrated management framework for forests and savannas.- Forest-agriculture in the Center-South region of Cameroon: how does traditional knowledge inform integrated management approaches?.