TY - BOOK

T1 - Environmental Sociology

T2 - European perspectives and interdisciplinary challenges

A2 - Gross, Matthias

A2 - Heinrichs, Harald

PY - 2010

Y1 - 2010

N2 - 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. Environmental Sociology is the first book to broaden the realm of environmental sociology by forging links to other environmental disciplines, such as environmental policy, media studies, geography, ecological economics, ecological modeling, or ecological design. The book's focus on current environment-related issues in interdisciplinary developments are not only of relevance for strengthening environmental sociology but will make it a great read for upper undergraduate and graduate courses in social sciences dealing with environmental topics.

AB - 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. Environmental Sociology is the first book to broaden the realm of environmental sociology by forging links to other environmental disciplines, such as environmental policy, media studies, geography, ecological economics, ecological modeling, or ecological design. The book's focus on current environment-related issues in interdisciplinary developments are not only of relevance for strengthening environmental sociology but will make it a great read for upper undergraduate and graduate courses in social sciences dealing with environmental topics.

KW - Sustainability sciences, Communication

KW - Climate Change

KW - Ecological restoration

KW - Environmental social science

KW - Global environmental change

KW - Inter- and transdisciplinarity

KW - Rational Choice

KW - Sociology and nature

KW - Sustainable Consumption

KW - Sustainable Development

KW - development

KW - environment

KW - Environmental planning

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84891419424&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/978-90-481-8730-0

DO - 10.1007/978-90-481-8730-0

M3 - Book

SN - 978-90-481-8729-4

BT - Environmental Sociology

PB - Springer

CY - Dordrecht u.a.

ER -