Groß / Gross / Heinrichs Environmental Sociology

European Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Challenges
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-90-481-8730-0
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 365 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gross, Matthias

Heinrichs, Harald

Groß, Matthias

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Environmental Sociology;2
2;Chapter 1: Introduction: New Trends and Interdisciplinary Challenges in Environmental Sociology;18
3;Chapter 2: Social Theories of Environmental Reform: Towards a Third Generation;35
4;Chapter 3: The New Climate Change Discourse: A Challenge for Environmental Sociology;55
5;Chapter 4: Earth System Governance and the Social Sciences;74
6;Chapter 5: Ecological Regimes: Towards a Conceptual Integration of Biophysical Environment into Social Theory;94
7;Chapter 6: Understanding Responses to the Environmental and Ethical Aspects of Innovative Technologies: The Case of Synthetic B;110
8;Chapter 7: Social Simulation: A Method to Investigate Environmental Change from a Social Science Perspective;122
9;Chapter 8: Trust and Cooperation as Requirements for Maintaining Environmental Governance Capacity;136
10;Chapter 9: Rational Choice Theory and the Environment: Variants, Applications, and New Trends;153
11;Chapter 10: Environmental Knowledge and Deliberative Democracy;170
12;Chapter 11: Knowledge and Social Learning for Sustainable Development;195
13;Chapter 12: Beyond Neocorporatism? Transdisciplinary Case Studies as a Means for Collaborative Learning in Sustainable Developm;210
14;Chapter 13: Social Practices and Sustainable Consumption: Benefits and Limitations of a New Theoretical Approach;226
15;Chapter 14: (Im)mobility and Environment–Society Relations: Arguments for and Against the ‘Mobilisation’ of Environmental Soci;245
16;Chapter 15: Environmental Sustainability as Challenge for Media and Journalism;264
17;Chapter 16: The Experimental Turn in Environmental Sociology: Pragmatism and New Forms of Governance;286
18;Chapter 17: Risk, Society and Environmental Policy: Risk Governance in a Complex World;302
19;Chapter 18: Climate Change and Society – Communicating Adaptation;329
20;Chapter 19: Moving Ahead: Environmental Sociology’s Contribution to Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research;352
21;Index;357