Environment and Society Concepts and Challenges /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Boström, Magnus (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Davidson, Debra J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Environmental Sociology and Policy
• Subjects: Environmental sociology.; Environmental geography.; Environmental management.; Applied ecology.; Environmental Sociology.; Environmental Geography.; Environmental Management.; Applied Ecology.

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, criti...

Table of Contents:

• Ch 1. Introduction: Conceptualizing environment-society relations - Magnus Boström and Debra J. Davidson
• Ch. 2. The Anthropocene: A Narrative in the Making - Rolf Lidskog and Claire Waterton
• Ch. 3. Metabolism - Debra J. Davidson
• Ch. 4. Risk and Resilience - Marja Ylönen
• Ch. 5. Global Environmental Networks and Flows addressing Global Environmental Change - Peter Oosterveer
• Ch. 6. The environmental state and environmental governance - Arthur P.J. Mol
• Ch. 7. Economic Valuation of the Environment - Steve Yearley
• Ch. 8. Environmental Expertise - Rolf Lidskog and Göran Sundqvist
• Ch. 9. The Practice of Green Consumption - Emily Huddart Kennedy and Darcy Hauslik
• Ch. 10. Minding the mundane: Everyday practices as central pillar of sustainability thinking and research - Henrike Rau
• Ch. 11. Environmental Justice - J. Timmons Roberts, David Pellow and Paul Mohai
• Ch. 12. Environmental Democracy: Participation, Deliberation and Citizenship - Frank Fisher
• Ch. 13. Joining people with things. The commons and environmental sociology - Luigi Pellizzoni
• Ch. 14. Spatial frames and the quest for institutional fit - C.S.A. (Kris) Van Koppen and Simon R. Bush
• Ch. 15. Conflicting temporalities of social and environmental change? - Stewart Lockie and Catherine Mei Ling Wong
• Ch. 16. Conclusion - A proposal for a brave new world of conceptual reflexivity - Magnus Boström, Debra J. Davidson, and Stewart Lockie
• Afterword: Irony and Contrarian Imaginations - Matthias Gross.