Overview
- Covers a broad spectrum of sociological and environmental social science concepts ranging from rational choice, practice theory to earth system governance
- Focuses on the inter- and transdisciplinary potential of environmental sociology
- Discusses modern societies' reform needs, limits and new possibilities to adapt to and shape its natural environments
- Highlights the potential to social sustainability transformation at large
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Natural Flows and Global Environmental Discourse
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Exploring Limits and New Possibilities for Understanding Environmental Rationalities
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Transdisciplinarity and Sustainable Development
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Ecological Adaptation Policies and Social Experimentation
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About this book
Despite being a relatively young sub-discipline, European environmental sociology has changed considerably in the last decades towards more interdisciplinary collaborations and problem solving. Current trends such as global environmental modernization and processes of economic, political and socio-cultural globalization, fuelled by developments of transport, environmental flows, scientific uncertainty, and information technologies, have fostered new conceptual approaches that move beyond classical sociological mind-sets toward broader attempts to connect to other disciplines.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Sociology
Book Subtitle: European Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Challenges
Editors: Matthias Gross, Harald Heinrichs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8730-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8729-4Published: 21 May 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9940-0Published: 06 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-8730-0Published: 17 June 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 361
Topics: Sociology, general, Environmental Management, Sustainable Development, Political Science, Human Geography, Environmental Economics