Overview
- Assembles existing knowledge in the environmental and social sciences to generate a science-based, integrated, accessible, and actionable theoretical framework for socio-environmental studies
- Overcomes dualistic tendencies in conventional worldviews, such as humans and nature, individual and society, and the like
- Facilitates interdisciplinary communication and collaboration among those seeking to understand and address complex socio-environmental issues
- Outlines a general theory of social change
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias (PSNE)
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—Stephen Mennell, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University College Dublin, Ireland
“Debbie Kasper’s Beyond the Knowledge Crisis is a vital work that arrives at a critical time. Scholars of Norbert Elias should be delighted with Kasper’s explorations of his work and influence, but perhaps more importantly, all practitioners of integrative problem solving will find great insight and guidance here. Kasper provides a much-needed tonic during a time of enormous practical and existential challenges, when teachers and students alike need clear guidance to undertake integrative problem solving, especially in environmental studies. As an iconoclastic interdisciplinarian with a 30-year career learning and teaching, I can attest that it is rare to encounter a book that so skillfully and accurately depicts the world of professional practice that I have both inhabited and researched for so long. Kasper’s work will help us navigate the complexities of setting and achieving truly interdisciplinary goals in the face of the great complexity that now demands them.”
—Richard L. Wallace, Professor of Environmental Studies and Marine Science, Chair of the Environmental Studies Department, Director of the Food Studies Program, and Co-Director of the Whittaker Environmental Research Station, Ursinus College, USA
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
College, in northeast Ohio. She specializes in sociological theory, environmental sociology,
community resilience, and social change and teaches a wide variety of courses related to these
themes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beyond the Knowledge Crisis
Book Subtitle: A Synthesis Framework for Socio-Environmental Studies and Guide to Social Change
Authors: Debbie Kasper
Series Title: Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48370-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48369-2Published: 04 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48372-2Published: 05 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48370-8Published: 03 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2662-3102
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3110
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 273
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociological Theory, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Social Sciences, general, Social Theory