Environmental sociology

Chapter 1 Introduction: New Trends and Interdisciplinary Challenges in Environmental Sociology

Chapter 2 Social Theories of Environmental Reform: Towards a Third Generation

Chapter 3 The New Climate Change Discourse: A Challenge for Environmental Sociology

Chapter 4 Earth System Governance and the Social Sciences

Chapter 5 Ecological Regimes: Towards a Conceptual Integration of Biophysical Environment into Social Theory

Chapter 6 Understanding Responses to the Environmental and Ethical Aspects of Innovative Technologies: The Case of Synthetic Biology in Europe

Chapter 7 Social Simulation: A Method to Investigate Environmental Change from a Social Science Perspective

Chapter 8 Trust and Cooperation as Requirements for Maintaining Environmental Governance Capacity

Chapter 9 Rational Choice Theory and the Environment: Variants, Applications, and New Trends

Chapter 10 Environmental Knowledge and Deliberative Democracy

Chapter 11 Knowledge and Social Learning for Sustainable Development

Chapter 12 Beyond Neocorporatism? Transdisciplinary Case Studies as a Means for Collaborative Learning in Sustainable Development

Chapter 13 Social Practices and Sustainable Consumption: Benefits and Limitations of a New Theoretical Approach

Chapter 14 (Im)mobility and Environment–Society Relations: Arguments for and Against the ‘Mobilisation’ of Environmental Sociology

Chapter 15 Environmental Sustainability as Challenge for Media and Journalism

Chapter 16 The Experimental Turn in Environmental Sociology: Pragmatism and New Forms of Governance

Chapter 17 Risk, Society and Environmental Policy: Risk Governance in a Complex World

Chapter 18 Climate Change and Society – Communicating Adaptation

Chapter 19 Moving Ahead: Environmental Sociology’s Contribution to Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research