Environment and Society: Concepts and Challenges by Boström, Magnus

Environment and Society: Concepts and Challenges (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783319764146)

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Environment and Society: Concepts and Challenges by Boström, Magnus

Environment and Society: Concepts and Challenges

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Environment and Society: Concepts and Challenges by Boström, Magnus

Environment and Society: Concepts and Challenges

$99.99
Format: Hardcover
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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, critical reflections on concepts such as the Anthropocene, metabolism, risk, resilience, environmental governance, environmental justice and others, are well-warranted. Contributors to this volume, working across a multitude of areas within environmental social science, scrutinize underlying worldviews and assumptions, asking a common set of key questions: What are the different concepts able to explain? How do they take into account society-environment relations? What social, cultural, or geo-political biases and blinders are inherent? What actions or practices do the concepts inspire?
The transdisciplinary engagement and reflexivity regarding concepts of environment-society relations represented in these chapters is needed in all spheres of society-in academia, policy and practice-not the least to confront current tendencies of anti-reflexivity and denialism.



Author: Magnus Bostr
ISBN-10: 3319764144
ISBN-13: 9783319764146
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 07/02/2018
Pages: 394
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.46lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.94d
By Magnus Bostr
By Magnus Bostr
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Magnus Bostr is Professor of Sociology at ﾖrebro University, Sweden, with a theoretical interest and research profile in environmental sociology. His research interest generally concerns politics, representation, consumption and action in relation to a broad variety of transnational environmental and sustainability issues.
Debra J. Davidson is Professor of Environmental Sociology in the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology at the University of Alberta, USA. Her key areas of teaching and research include social responses to climate change, and crises and transitions in food and energy systems.

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