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- Discusses the nascent fields of Social-ecology, resilience and environmental sociology
- Explores the inherent deficits in environmental research and knowledge and the need for an integrated theory of society and nature
- Draws on economics, social theory and methodology, geography, sociology, environment studies, and encourages further multidisciplinary approaches to research
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- systemic thought
- complexity theory
- structural functionalism
- Resilience
- Human Ecology
- resilience-based human ecology
- adaptive cycles
- panarchy
- Social-Ecological Metabolism
- Marxian historical materialism
- metabolic rift
- ecological resilience
- Marxian ecology
- social-ecological systems
- Environmental Geography
Authors and Affiliations
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Sociology, University College Dublin, Dublin, United Kingdom
Eoin Flaherty
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Complexity and Resilience in the Social and Ecological Sciences
Authors: Eoin Flaherty
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54978-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54977-8Published: 28 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54978-5Published: 16 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 265
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environment Studies, Environmental Sociology, Environmental Geography, Environmental Management