Sustainability and the Social Sciences

A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Integrating Environmental Considerations Into Thoeretical Reorientation
Herausgeber: Becker, Egon; Jahn, Thomas

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The eminent contributors to this volume explore the complex terrain of the interface between the social sciences and environmental research. Coming from a range of social science disciplines, they argue that environmental questions will increasingly dominate humanity in the course of the coming century. This reality holds out an opportunity, and indeed practical necessity, of stimulating important new lines of theoretical development within the social sciences as well as new forms of intellectual cooperation across them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9781856497091
• ISBN-10: 1856497097
• Artikelnr.: 21037466

Autorenporträt

Egon Becker is Professor for Theory of Science and Sociology of Higher Education at the University of Frankfurt. Thomas Jahn is Executive Director of the Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE), Frankfurt. >Thomas Jahn is Executive Director of the Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE), Frankfurt.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Exploring Uncommon Ground: Sustainability as a Concept for the Social
Sciences - Egon Becker, Thomas Jahn and Immanuel Stiess Part I:
Sustainability: Linking the 'Leitbild' to Emerging Fields of Knowledge 2.
Social Sustainability and Whole Development: Exploring Dimensions of
Sustainable Development - Ignacy Sachs 3. Sustainability and Territory:
Meaningful Practices and Material Transformation - Henri Acselrad 4.
Sustainability and Sociology: Northern Preoccupations - Michael Redclift 5.
Sustainability, Sustainable Development and Gender: A View from a Feminist
Perspective - Rosi Braidotti 6. From Experience to Theory: Traditions of
Social-Ecological Research in Modern India - Ramachandra Guha 7. The
Socio-Ecological Embeddedness of Economic Activity: The Emergence of a
Transdisciplinary Field - Juan Martinez-Alier Part II: Towards Defining,
Measuring and Achieving Sustainability: Analytical Approaches in the Social
Sciences 8. The Political Logic of Sustainability - Nazli Choucri 9.
Economic Concepts of Sustainability: Relocating Economic Activity within
Society and Environment - John M Gowdy