Focusing on sustainability, the textbook integrates economic, ecological, and interdisciplinary research to provide a comprehensive overview. It employs a social-ecological and economic framework to enhance understanding and application of sustainability concepts in real-world scenarios, showcasing how to effectively implement these insights for improved outcomes.
Focusing on global environmental governance, the author critiques current practices and advocates for significant reforms to achieve sustainable societal transformation. By emphasizing the importance of knowledge bridging, integration, and synthesis, the book highlights how theoretical and empirical insights from global scenario analysis can enhance environmental policy. It promotes new methods for knowledge sharing and collective learning, drawing on recent advancements in social ecology and the author's interdisciplinary theory of society-nature interaction.
Focusing on the integration of social and ecological systems, this book presents a new social-ecological theory that bridges knowledge from sociology, economics, and natural sciences. It addresses the barriers to interdisciplinary research and proposes a framework for analyzing global environmental issues, including climate change and ecosystem transformation. By synthesizing theories from both fields, the author outlines pathways for sustainable societal transformation, aiming to foster a more systematic understanding of complex global challenges.
Building on recent developments in social ecology, this book advances a new critical theory of society and nature, exploring social metabolism and global resource flows in contemporary society. Barriers to global sustainability are identified and conditions for transforming industrial economies towards new sustainable resource use are described.
Integrating environmental aims in the agricultural policy of the European Union was a main aim of the 1992 CAP-reform. This book presents a study of the socio-economic framing conditions as well as the attitudes and orientations within the agricultural population towards the European agri-environmental policy. It is based on a research project in three member countries, France, Germany, and Portugal, where more than 600 farmers have been interviewed. The results indicate that a change towards more ecologically sustainable forms of agricultural production requires much broader political and social support to grow beyond the dimensions of a marginal green subsector of agriculture.