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.
Despite being a relatively young sub-discipline, European environmental sociology has changed considerably in the last decades towards more interdi...
zieren: Klimawandel, Verlust an Artenvielfalt, Susswasserverknappung, Uber- schung, Wustenausbreitung und persistente Chemikalien sind Beispiele dafur. Der Soziologe Ulrich Beck bezeichnet den Zustand der globalen Zivilisation deshalb als Weltrisikogesellschaft (Beck 2007). Um den diagnostizierten globalen Wandel zu gestalten und Risiken zu vermindern, ist mit dem Leitbild der nachhaltigen Entwicklung auf der We- konferenz fur Umwelt und Entwicklung bereits 1992 in Rio de Janeiro ein int- nationaler Rahmen formuliert worden: Soziale, okonomische und okologische Entwicklungsdynamiken sollen...
zieren: Klimawandel, Verlust an Artenvielfalt, Susswasserverknappung, Uber- schung, Wustenausbreitung und persistente Chemikalien sind Beispiele dafur...
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.
Despite being a relatively young sub-discipline, European environmental sociology has changed considerably in the last decades towards more interdi...