Introduction: New Trends and Interdisciplinary Challenges in Environmental Sociology
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Environmental Sociology : European Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Challenges. ed. / Matthias Gross; Harald Heinrichs. Dordrecht u.a.: Springer, 2010. p. 1-16.
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T1 - Introduction
T2 - New Trends and Interdisciplinary Challenges in Environmental Sociology
AU - Heinrichs, Harald
AU - Groß, Matthias
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This introductory chapter discusses the general development of sociological thinking as regards its conceptualizations of nature and its potential to deliver knowledge in inter- and transdisciplinary research. The chapter starts with an overview on sociology's attempts at theorizing society as part but also as opposing the natural world. Recent debates in complexity theory and ecology have fostered debates among sociologists to open the discipline to more inter- and transdisciplinary approaches. The fields discussed in the chapter include arguments for sociology to include concepts such as environmental flows, sustainability, new policies towards adaptation to changing ecological realities as well as social experimentation.
AB - This introductory chapter discusses the general development of sociological thinking as regards its conceptualizations of nature and its potential to deliver knowledge in inter- and transdisciplinary research. The chapter starts with an overview on sociology's attempts at theorizing society as part but also as opposing the natural world. Recent debates in complexity theory and ecology have fostered debates among sociologists to open the discipline to more inter- and transdisciplinary approaches. The fields discussed in the chapter include arguments for sociology to include concepts such as environmental flows, sustainability, new policies towards adaptation to changing ecological realities as well as social experimentation.
KW - Sustainability sciences, Communication
KW - Adaptation
KW - Ecological restoration
KW - Environmental reform
KW - Environmental social science
KW - Global environmental change
UR - https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84891374424&origin=inward&txGid=0
U2 - 10.1007/978-90-481-8730-0_1
DO - 10.1007/978-90-481-8730-0_1
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-90-481-8729-4
SP - 1
EP - 16
BT - Environmental Sociology
A2 - Gross, Matthias
A2 - Heinrichs, Harald
PB - Springer
CY - Dordrecht u.a.
ER -