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Sustainability issues have become some of the most pressing and urgent facing us today, and related programs have grown markedly to meet worldwide demand for a workforce that understands their complexity and is equipped with the knowledge and skills to address them.
ProQuest One Sustainability provides a transdisciplinary research experience across these areas and more, with content and structure designed around key concepts and frameworks such as the U.N’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the three pillars of sustainability, and the key competencies of sustainability.
Developed in collaboration with curriculum experts, faculty, students, continuing education learners, and librarians, ProQuest One Sustainability brings together the world’s largest, most varied collection of sustainability research materials, including scholarly journals, case studies, reports, trade journals, magazines, ebooks, and much more on an interface designed specifically for sustainability.
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Introducing ProQuest One Sustainability
A Unique Interface Built for Sustainability
Task-Based Interface
The interface is built around the common tasks, assignments and concepts of sustainability. An intuitive and logical homepage gives instant access to key content and topics.
Topic Pages
Topic pages offer concise overviews with links to related subjects and curated resources, helping users quickly understand, examine from multiple perspectives, research deeply, and explore topics in broader contexts.
AI-Powered Research Assistant
The ProQuest Research Assistant beta uses AI to help users craft targeted searches, efficiently analyze documents, grasp key concepts, and receive tailored suggestions for future research ideas and topics.
Authoritative Multi-Format Content
A wealth of resources, including peer-reviewed journals, books, case studies, NGO and government reports, dissertations, and other forms of gray literature. Depth and breadth across disciplines from social sustainability and climate change to green technologies and sustainable business practices.
The content needed to support transdisciplinary research and study in areas such as Economics of the Environment, Health Effects of Climate Change, AI and Sustainability, Green Chemistry, Democratizing Science and Technology, Ethics and the Anthropocene.
Speaking the Language of Sustainability
SDGs and Key Competencies
Users can easily browse information on key concepts and frameworks such as the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and the key competencies in sustainability.
Three Pillars of Sustainability
Content is tagged to one or more of the 3 pillars of sustainability, allowing user to refine searches by pillar and providing them with a logical way to discover content.
Enables Transdisciplinary Research
Many sustainability topics like food security, clean energy, and sustainable cities are transdisciplinary and need insights from multiple fields. ProQuest One Sustainability supports this by uniting content across disciplines.
Who is Using ProQuest One Sustainability
Teaching
A professor updating course materials. Looking for different perspectives on the moral implications of gene edited food. She uses the ‘Case Study’ source type filter to limit their search to case studies and finds cases from the perspectives of farmers, consumers, and the environment
Learning
An undergrade must research a sustainability issue impacting their community and write a paper critically analyzing the issue and suggesting possible solutions. She uses the Urban Heat Island Effect topic page for an overview, then applies Pillar filters to find studies on its effects on people of color and lowiincome groups in New York City
Research
A graduate student must write a policy brief on how emerging alternatives to energy infrastructure can be scaled up locally. He selects Passive Solar Heating topic page from the browse and finds examples of passive solar heating on a local level to alleviate energy poverty in sub-Saharan Africa
