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Negotiating Environmental Change: New Perspectives from Social Science
Frans Berkhout, Melissa Leach and Ian Scoones (eds), Edward Elgar, January
2003, 291p.
Major advances have been made in social and economic understanding of
environmental problems. Social, economic and environmental changes are
intimately related to one another, and a diversity of perspectives have
emerged to describe and explain these relationships. This book, which is
the final output of the UK’s Global Environmental Change Programme,
presents a critical review of debates in environmental social science over
the past decade.
Three broad areas are covered in ten chapters: the problems of scientific
uncertainty and its role in shaping environmental decisions and policy; the
development of institutional frameworks for governing environmental
services and resources; and the link between production and consumption,
and the environment. The book begins with an overview essay examining how
perspectives across environmental social science have shifted over the past
decade and looking forward to the emergence of new research agendas. It
argues that many of the assumptions underlying sustainable development need
to be reformulated and reframed.
Contributors include: W.N. Adger, G. Atkinson, T. Bedford, F. Berkhout, J.
Burgess, A. Coulson, G. Davies, P. Ekins, A. Gouldson, K. Green, N. Hanley,
C. Harrison, K. Hobson, A. Jordan, M. Leach, R. Munton, S. New, A.
Schaefer, I. Scoones, J. Skea, A. Stirling, J. Vogler
Hardback £65.00
Paperback £25.00
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