During the second half of the 20th century, the crisis of societal relations to nature emerged
as the subject of an international scientific, political, and popular debate. Anthropogenic …

Judging from the state of affairs, calls for sustainable development over the last decades
have largely fallen on deaf ears. Today, dire scientific warnings about the direction of the …

Vexing problems of global environmental change call for better conceptual and analytical
approaches for understanding human behaviors, factors influencing these behaviors, and …

The sustainability discourse is, essentially, centered on the question of how complex
relations between nature and society can be conceptualized, analyzed and shaped. In this …

This introductory chapter discusses the general development of sociological thinking as
regards its conceptualizations of nature and its potential to deliver knowledge in inter-and …

This chapter is a comparative evaluation of the frameworks of “political ecology” and
“sustainability science” in terms of their capacity to understand and address dynamic human …

Understanding socio-ecological interactions requires an interdisciplinary approach that
recognizes the value of both a social and an ecological perspective. However, such a …

This chapter provides an overview of social ecology, an approach to social-ecological
research that applies transdisciplinary methods to the analysis of social relations to nature in …

Social Ecology is an interdisciplinary research field rooted in the traditions of both the Social
Sciences and Natural Sciences. The common denominator of this research field is not a …

Sociological insights are often underutilized in sustainability science. To further strengthen
its commitment to interdisciplinary problem-driven, solutions-oriented research …