Overview
- Includes Foreword by Raymond Murphy and Afterword by Matthias Gross
- Discusses the major paradigms, concepts, and debates in today’s environmental sciences
- Includes contributions from some of the leading environmental sociologists in the field
- Provides a clear understanding of society-ecology relations from a environmental sociological perspective
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Environmental Sociology and Policy (PASTESP)
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This book offers a critical analysis of core concepts that have influenced contemporary conversations about environment-society relations in academic, political, and civil circles. Considering these conceptualizations are currently shaping responses to environmental crises in fundamental ways, critical reflections on concepts such as the Anthropocene, metabolism, risk, resilience, environmental governance, environmental justice and others, are well-warranted. Contributors to this volume, working across a multitude of areas within environmental social science, scrutinize underlying worldviews and assumptions, asking a common set of key questions: What are the different concepts able to explain? How do they take into account society-environment relations? What social, cultural, or geo-political biases and blinders are inherent? What actions or practices do the concepts inspire?
The transdisciplinary engagement and reflexivity regarding concepts ofenvironment-society relations represented in these chapters is needed in all spheres of society—in academia, policy and practice—not the least to confront current tendencies of anti-reflexivity and denialism.
The transdisciplinary engagement and reflexivity regarding concepts ofenvironment-society relations represented in these chapters is needed in all spheres of society—in academia, policy and practice—not the least to confront current tendencies of anti-reflexivity and denialism.
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Keywords
- Social practices theory
- Environment and Society
- environmental justice
- sustainability
- Socio-ecological relations
- Anthropocene
- ANT/actor-network theory
- Capitalocene
- carbon markets
- Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
- deliberative environmental democracy
- eco-democracy
- Environmental racism
- locally unwanted land uses (LULUs)
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Environmental Geography
Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“Bringing together some of the leading researchers in the field, Environment & Society poses the fundamental question of what it means to live in the Anthropocene and how our concepts and approaches across the social sciences must respond. The volume heralds a call for a more reflexive approach to policy and practice, capable of opening up the discussion of how society is configuring environmental change and how in turn social futures are being made. The book is both a guide and a provocation to rethink the concepts we use and their implications for achieving the kinds of futures we want and will be a valuable reference for students, researchers and practitioners alike.” (Professor Harriet Bulkeley, Durham University, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Magnus Boström is Professor of Sociology at Örebro University, Sweden, with a theoretical interest and research profile in environmental sociology. His research interest generally concerns politics, representation, consumption and action in relation to a broad variety of transnational environmental and sustainability issues.
Debra J. Davidson is Professor of Environmental Sociology in the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology at the University of Alberta, USA. Her key areas of teaching and research include social responses to climate change, and crises and transitions in food and energy systems.
Debra J. Davidson is Professor of Environmental Sociology in the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology at the University of Alberta, USA. Her key areas of teaching and research include social responses to climate change, and crises and transitions in food and energy systems.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environment and Society
Book Subtitle: Concepts and Challenges
Editors: Magnus Boström, Debra J. Davidson
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Environmental Sociology and Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76415-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76414-6Published: 02 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09483-6Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76415-3Published: 13 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-5230
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5249
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 394
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environmental Sociology, Environmental Geography, Environmental Management, Applied Ecology