Routledge International Handbook of Social and Environmental Change

ISBN-13: 9780415782791 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 344 str.

Stewart Lockie; David A. Sonnenfeld; Dana R. Fisher

Opis

This text explores the causes, contradictions and consequences of global social-ecological change, along with the uncertainties and governance dilemmas these create. Case studies illustrate the inter-connectedness of ecosystem health, natural resource condition, livelihood security, social justice and development.

Spis treści

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  6. Neoliberalism by Design: Changing Modalities of Market-Based Environmental Governance  7. 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 Polices of Reducing Energy Consumption  12. Environmental Migration: Nature, Society and Population Movement  Part 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  18. Uncertainty and Claims of Uncertainty as Impediments to Risk Management  19. 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  23. Biological Invasions as Cause and Consequence of "Our" Changing World: Social and Environmental Paradoxes  24. 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