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Social Ecology: Society-Nature Relations across Time and Space (Human-Environment Interactions Book 5) by Helmut Haberl, Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Fridolin Krausmann, Verena Winiwarter (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Social Ecology: Society-Nature Relations across Time and Space (Human-Environment Interactions Book 5) about?
This book presents the current state of the art in Social Ecology as practiced by the Vienna School of Social Ecology, globally one of the main research groups in this field. As a significant contribution to the growing literature on interdisciplinary sustainability studies, the book introduces the purpose and nature of Social Ecology and then places the “Vienna School” within the broader context of socioecological and other interdisciplinary environmental approaches. The conceptual and methodological foundations of Social Ecology are discussed in detail, allowing the reader to obtain a broad overview of current socioecological thinking. Issues covered include socio-metabolic transitions, socioecological approaches to land use, the relation between actor-centered and system approaches, a socioecological theory of labor and the importance of legacies, as conceived in Environmental History and in Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research. To underpin this overview empirically, the strengths of socioecological research are elucidated in cases of cutting-edge research, introducing a variety of themes the Vienna School has been tackling empirically over the past years. Given how the field is
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Helmut Haberl, Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Fridolin Krausmann, Verena Winiwarter (eds.)
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Springer
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783319333250
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Economics, Sociology