Environmental Sociology: European Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Challenges PDF
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Environmental Sociology Matthias Gross Harald Heinrichs ● Editors Environmental Sociology European Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Challenges Editors Matthias Gross Harald Heinrichs Department of Urban and Environmental Leuphana University Lüneburg Sociology Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Communication Research – UFZ Lüneburg Leipzig Germany Germany [email protected] [email protected] ISBN 978-90-481-8729-4 e-ISBN 978-90-481-8730-0 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-8730-0 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010927480 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Cover image © 2009 JupiterImages Corporation Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Contents 1 Introduction: New Trends and Interdisciplinary Challenges in Environmental Sociology .................................................. 1 Harald Heinrichs and Matthias Gross Part I Natural Flows and Global Environmental Discourse 2 Social Theories of Environmental Reform: Towards a Third Generation.................................................................... 19 Arthur P.J. Mol 3 The New Climate Change Discourse: A Challenge for Environmental Sociology .............................................. 39 Fritz Reusswig 4 Earth System Governance and the Social Sciences ................................ 59 Frank Biermann 5 Ecological Regimes: Towards a Conceptual Integration of Biophysical Environment into Social Theory ..................................... 79 Bianca Baerlocher and Paul Burger Part II Exploring Limits and New Possibilities for Understanding Environmental Rationalities 6 Understanding Responses to the Environmental and Ethical Aspects of Innovative Technologies: The Case of Synthetic Biology in Europe ............................................... 97 Steven Yearley 7 Social Simulation: A Method to Investigate Environmental Change from a Social Science Perspective .............................................. 109 Andreas Ernst v vi Contents 8 Trust and Cooperation as Requirements for Maintaining Environmental Governance Capacity ................................................... 123 Stefan Walter 9 Rational Choice Theory and the Environment: Variants, Applications, and New Trends ............................................... 141 Ulf Liebe and Peter Preisendörfer 10 Environmental Knowledge and Deliberative Democracy ................... 159 Luigi Pellizzoni Part III Transdisciplinarity and Sustainable Development 11 Knowledge and Social Learning for Sustainable Development .......... 185 Bernd Siebenhüner and Harald Heinrichs 12 Beyond Neocorporatism? Transdisciplinary Case Studies as a Means for Collaborative Learning in Sustainable Development .................................................. 201 Michael Stauffacher 13 Social Practices and Sustainable Consumption: Benefits and Limitations of a New Theoretical Approach .................. 217 Karl-Werner Brand 14 (Im)mobility and Environment–Society Relations: Arguments for and Against the ‘Mobilisation’ of Environmental Sociology ................................................................... 237 Henrike Rau Part IV Ecological Adaptation Policies and Social Experimentation 15 Environmental Sustainability as Challenge for Media and Journalism ........................................................................................ 257 Heinz Bonfadelli 16 The Experimental Turn in Environmental Sociology: Pragmatism and New Forms of Governance ........................................ 279 Christine Overdevest, Alena Bleicher, and Matthias Gross 17 Risk, Society and Environmental Policy: Risk Governance in a Complex World .................................................. 295 Piet Sellke and Ortwin Renn Contents vii 18 Climate Change and Society – Communicating Adaptation .............. 323 Harald Heinrichs Part V Coda Chapter 19 Moving Ahead: Environmental Sociology’s Contribution to Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research ............................................. 347 Matthias Gross and Harald Heinrichs Index ................................................................................................................. 353 List of Figures Fig. 6.1 Is/ought: the canonical model ............................................................ 104 Fig. 6.2 More on is/ought: inherent limits to the canonical model ................ 104 Fig. 7.1 An example of a behavioral stream: simulated relative changes in land use strategies of Polish farmers in the Odra region (Source: own work)....................................................... 113 Fig. 7.2 Development of a simulated decision maker’s satisfaction with the outcome of four different behavioral options while playing an environmental game over 14 rounds (Source: own work). Positive numbers denote a positive rating of a strategy, negative numbers a negative rating. M: Learning events. Further explanations are in the text .................. 114 Fig. 7.3 Graphical representation of an empirically derived social network (Source: own work). The nodes of the network denote its members, in this case Polish farmers in a village, and the links represent acquaintance or kinship relations ............................. 115 Fig. 7.4 The integrative structure of the DANUBIA model. The five components with their disciplinary models are shown as well as the interfaces to exchange data between them ................. 118 Fig. 7.5 A map of the number of rain harvesting systems in the Upper Danube river basin (left) and of liters of drinking water used per day and household for taking showers (right) for a specific simulation time step as examples of outputs as modeled by the household model in DANUBIA. One can distinguish the only sparsely populated region of the Alps with the Inn river valley in the South of the basin, and the larger cities further north, e.g., Munich in the middle (Source: own work) ............................... 119 ix
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