Sociological research on global climate change (GCC) can be found in several subfields,
but it has primarily emerged within the theoretical and substantive domain of sociology of the …

Over the past few decades, there has been a growing concern about the social and
environmental risks which have come along with the progress achieved through a variety of …

'Social construction'is a central metaphor in contemporary social science, yet it is used and
understood in widely divergent and indeed conflicting ways by different thinkers. Most …

Drawing on evolutionary epistemology, process ontology, and a social-cognition approach,
this book suggests cognitive evolution, an evolutionary-constructivist social and normative …

This article presents an agentic theory of human development, adaptation, and change. The
evolutionary emergence of advanced symbolizing capacity enabled humans to transcend …

Human institutions—ways of organizing activities—affect the resilience of the environment.
Locally evolved institutional arrangements governed by stable communities and buffered …

This article presents an inquiry into prospects for application of the conceptual lens of
resilience to social systems. The dominant paradigm of sustainability in its current form is …

How might we better understand the linkages between population, resources and
environmental impacts? How might we proceed to develop organized research programs to …

Abstract" The Social Construction of Nature" is a critical examination of the relationship
between nature and culture. Eder demonstrates that our ideas of nature are culturally …

Risk as we now know it is a wholly new phenomenon, the by-product of our ever more
complex and powerful technologies. In business, policy making, and in everyday life, it …