ISBN:
9781138645332
Language:
English
Pages:
xv, 338 Seiten
Series Statement:
Routledge International Handbooks
DDC:
303.4
Abstract:
Today, the risks associated with global environmental change and the dangers of extreme climatic and geological events remind us of humanity's dependence on favourable environmental conditions. Our relationships with the landscapes and ecologies that we are a part of, the plants and animals that we share them with, and the natural resources that we extract, lie at the heart of contemporary social and political debates. It is no longer possible to understand key social scientific concerns without at the same time also understanding contemporary patterns of ecosystem change.The Routledge Interna
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Socio-ecological transformations and the social sciences; PART I Challenges, contradictions and consequences of global socio-ecological change; 2 Ecological modernization theory: taking stock, moving forward; 3 The emergence of new world-systems perspectives on global environmental change; 4 China's economic growth and environmental protection: approaching a 'win-win' situation? A discussion of ecological modernization theory; 5 Eco-imperialism and environmental justice.
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6 Neoliberalism by design: changing modalities of market-based environmental governance7 Dilemmas for standardizers of sustainable consumption; PART II Climate change, energy and adaptation; 8 Climate, scenario-building and governance: comprehending the temporalities of social-ecological change; 9 From Rio to Copenhagen: multilateral agreements, disagreements and situated actions; 10 Marriage on the rocks: sociology's counsel for our struggling energy-society relationships; 11 Sustainability as social practice: new perspectives on the theory and policies of reducing energy consumption.
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12 Environmental migration: nature, society and population movementPART III Urban environmental change, governance and adaptation; 13 Climate change and urban governance: a new politics?; 14 Recovering the city level in the global environmental struggle: going beyond carbon trading; 15 Hybrid arrangements within the environmental state; 16 The new mobilities paradigm and sustainable transport: finding synergies and creating new methods; PART IV Risk, uncertainty and social learning; 17 Towards a socio-ecological foundation for environmental risk research.
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18 Uncertainty and claims of uncertainty as impediments to risk management19 Transboundary risk governance: co-constructing environmental issues and political solutions; 20 The role of professionals in managing technological hazards: the Montara blowout; 21 Social learning to cope with global environmental change and unsustainability; PART V (Re)assembling social-ecological systems; 22 The social-ecological co-constitution of nature through ecological restoration: experimentally coping with inevitable ignorance and surprise.
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23 Biological invasions as cause and consequence of 'our' changing world: social and environmental paradoxes24 Biological resources, knowledge and property; 25 Disassembling and reassembling socionatural networks: integrated natural resource management in the Great Bear Rainforest; 26 Land use tensions for the development of renewable sources of energy; Index.
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