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Environment and Society

Concepts and Challenges

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  • © 2018

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Editors:
  1. Magnus Boström

    1. School of Humanities Education and Social Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

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  2. Debra J. Davidson

    1. Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

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  • Includes Foreword by Raymond Murphy and Afterword by Matthias Gross
  • Discusses the major paradigms, concepts, and debates in today’s environmental sciences
  • Includes contributions from some of the leading environmental sociologists in the field
  • Provides a clear understanding of society-ecology relations from a environmental sociological perspective

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Environmental Sociology and Policy (PASTESP)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxiii
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  2. Introduction: Conceptualizing Environment-Society Relations

    • Magnus Boström, Debra J. Davidson
    Pages 1-24

  3. The Anthropocene: A Narrative in the Making

    • Rolf Lidskog, Claire Waterton
    Pages 25-46

  4. Metabolism

    • Debra J. Davidson
    Pages 47-70

  5. Risk and Resilience

    • Marja Ylönen
    Pages 71-94

  6. Global Environmental Networks and Flows Addressing Global Environmental Change

    • Peter Oosterveer
    Pages 95-118

  7. The Environmental State and Environmental Governance

    • Arthur P. J. Mol
    Pages 119-142

  8. Economic Valuation of the Environment

    • Steve Yearley
    Pages 143-165

  9. Environmental Expertise

    • Rolf Lidskog, Göran Sundqvist
    Pages 167-186

  10. The Practice of Green Consumption

    • Emily Huddart Kennedy, Darcy Hauslik
    Pages 187-206

  11. Minding the Mundane: Everyday Practices as Central Pillar of Sustainability Thinking and Research

    • Henrike Rau
    Pages 207-232

  12. Environmental Justice

    • J. Timmons Roberts, David Pellow, Paul Mohai
    Pages 233-255

  13. Environmental Democracy: Participation, Deliberation and Citizenship

    • Frank Fischer
    Pages 257-279

  14. Joining People with Things. The Commons and Environmental Sociology

    • Luigi Pellizzoni
    Pages 281-304

  15. Spatial Frames and the Quest for Institutional Fit

    • C. S. A. (Kris) van Koppen, Simon R. Bush
    Pages 305-326

  16. Conflicting Temporalities of Social and Environmental Change?

    • Stewart Lockie, Catherine Mei Ling Wong
    Pages 327-350

  17. Conclusions: A Proposal for a Brave New World of Conceptual Reflexivity

    • Magnus Boström, Debra J. Davidson, Stewart Lockie
    Pages 351-373

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 375-394
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About this book

This book offers a critical analysis of core concepts that have influenced contemporary conversations about environment-society relations in academic, political, and civil circles. Considering these conceptualizations are currently shaping responses to environmental crises in fundamental ways, critical reflections on concepts such as the Anthropocene, metabolism, risk, resilience, environmental governance, environmental justice and others, are well-warranted. Contributors to this volume, working across a multitude of areas within environmental social science, scrutinize underlying worldviews and assumptions, asking a common set of key questions: What are the different concepts able to explain? How do they take into account society-environment relations? What social, cultural, or geo-political biases and blinders are inherent? What actions or practices do the concepts inspire? 


The transdisciplinary engagement and reflexivity regarding concepts ofenvironment-society relations represented in these chapters is needed in all spheres of society—in academia, policy and practice—not the least to confront current tendencies of anti-reflexivity and denialism.  







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“Bringing together some of the leading researchers in the field, Environment & Society poses the fundamental question of what it means to live in the Anthropocene and how our concepts and approaches across the social sciences must respond. The volume heralds a call for a more reflexive approach to policy and practice, capable of opening up the discussion of how society is configuring environmental change and how in turn social futures are being made. The book is both a guide and a provocation to rethink the concepts we use and their implications for achieving the kinds of futures we want and will be a valuable reference for students, researchers and practitioners alike.” (Professor Harriet Bulkeley, Durham University, UK)

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Humanities Education and Social Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

    Magnus Boström

  • Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    Debra J. Davidson

About the editors

Magnus Boström is Professor of Sociology at Örebro University, Sweden, with a theoretical interest and research profile in environmental sociology. His research interest generally concerns politics, representation, consumption and action in relation to a broad variety of transnational environmental and sustainability issues.


Debra J. Davidson is Professor of Environmental Sociology in the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology at the University of Alberta, USA. Her key areas of teaching and research include social responses to climate change, and crises and transitions in food and energy systems.



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