Routledge International Handbook of Social and Environmental Change

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Socio-ecological transformations and the social sciences
PART I Challenges, contradictions and consequences of global socio-ecological change
	2 Ecological modernization theory: taking stock, moving forward
	3 The emergence of new world-systems perspectives on global environmental change
	4 China’s economic growth and environmental protection: approaching a ‘win–win’ situation? A discussion of ecological modernization theory
	5 Eco-imperialism and environmental justice
	6 Neoliberalism by design: changing modalities of market-based environmental governance
	7 Dilemmas for standardizers of sustainable consumption
PART II Climate change, energy and adaptation
	8 Climate, scenario-building and governance: comprehending the temporalities of social-ecological change
	9 From Rio to Copenhagen: multilateral agreements, disagreements and situated actions
	10 Marriage on the rocks: sociology’s counsel for our struggling energy–society relationships
	11 Sustainability as social practice: new perspectives on the theory and policies of reducing energy consumption
	12 Environmental migration: nature, society and population movement
PART III Urban environmental change, governance and adaptation
	13 Climate change and urban governance: a new politics?
	14 Recovering the city level in the global environmental struggle: going beyond carbon trading
	15 Hybrid arrangements within the environmental state
	16 The new mobilities paradigm and sustainable transport: finding synergies and creating new methods
PART IV Risk, uncertainty and social learning
	17 Towards a socio-ecological foundation for environmental risk research
	18 Uncertainty and claims of uncertainty as impediments to risk management
	19 Transboundary risk governance: co-constructing environmental issues and political solutions
	20 The role of professionals in managing technological hazards: the Montara blowout
	21 Social learning to cope with global environmental change and unsustainability
PART V (Re)assembling social-ecological systems
	22 The social-ecological co-constitution of nature through ecological restoration: experimentally coping with inevitable ignorance and surprise
	23 Biological invasions as cause and consequence of ‘our’ changing world: social and environmental paradoxes
	24 Biological resources, knowledge and property
	25 Disassembling and reassembling socionatural networks: integrated natural resource management in the Great Bear Rainforest
	26 Land use tensions for the development of renewable sources of energy
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