The Anthropocene and Its Future : The Challenges of Accelerating Social and Ecological Change

• Autore: Bruckmeier Karl
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 pages)
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Part I Complexity of Global Change-Acceleration and Transformation -- 1 Introduction: The Century of Accelerating Social and Ecological Change -- 1.1 Global Change in Society and Nature -- 1.2 Envisioning the Future Society and Economy -- References -- 2 Global Change: The Great Acceleration -- 2.1 Great Acceleration: Limits to Growth and Planetary Boundaries in the Anthropocene -- Research on Limits to Growth -- Research on the Anthropocene Biosphere -- 2.2 Social-scientific Research about Global Change and the Great Acceleration -- Interdisciplinary Research: Spatial, Temporal, and Social Complexity of Change -- 2.3 Great Acceleration in the Anthropocene: Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- 3 Global Change: The Great Transformation -- 3.1 Particularities of the Great Transformation in the Twenty-First Century -- Interrelations of the Great Acceleration and the Great Transformation -- The Great Transformation-Controversies About the End of Industrial and Capitalist Society -- The Great Transformation-Controversies About Economic Growth -- 3.2 Research on the Transformation Process -- Transdisciplinary Transformation Research -- Social-Scientific Research -- Interdisciplinary and Ecological Research -- 3.3 Discussion and Conclusions-Transformation Research -- References -- 4 Sustainable Development: Ways to the Common Future -- 4.1 Development of the Global Sustainability Policy -- Review and Critique of the Sustainability Process -- Knowledge and Governance Practices in the Sustainability Process -- 4.2 Transforming the Sustainability Transformation -- Changing Knowledge Practices -- Changing Governance Practices -- Problems and Conflicts in Sustainability Governance. ; 4.3 Discussion and Conclusions-Restructuring the Sustainability Transformation -- References -- 5 Theoretical Models of the Social-Ecological Transformation -- 5.1 The Social-Scientific Discourse About Nature-Society Relations and Transformation -- 5.2 The Discourse About Nature-Society Relations in Social-Ecological and Ecological Research -- 5.3 Social Ecology as Science of the Societal Relations with Nature -- 5.4 Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Part II Problems in the Great Transformation -- 6 Digitalisation and Social-Ecological Transformation -- 6.1 Digital Revolution as Part of the Great Acceleration -- 6.2 Digitalisation as Transformation of the Economy -- 6.3 Social Change Through Technologies and Digitalisation -- 6.4 Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- 7 Food Systems and Social-Ecological Transformation -- 7.1 Modernisation of Agriculture and Food Systems as Part of the Great Acceleration -- Modernisation of Agriculture Before the Sustainability Policy -- Food Systems Since the Sustainability Policy -- 7.2 Food Systems in the Sustainability Transformation -- Reducing Food Loss and Waste -- Alternatives to Industrialised Food Production -- 7.3 Discussion and Conclusions-Future Food Systems -- References -- 8 Modes of Living and Social-Ecological Transformation -- 8.1 Lifeworld as Component of Society and Nature -- 8.2 Social Lifeworld-Changing Modes of Living -- 8.3 Ecological Lifeworld-Changing Human Relations with Nature -- 8.4 Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Part III The Future-Nature and Society -- 9 Transformation of Nature: Changing Relations between Nature and Society -- 9.1 Human and Societal Relations to Nature -- 9.2 Nature-Society Relations Discussed in the Philosophy of Nature -- Changing Views of Conservation under Conditions of Global Environmental Change. ; 9.3 Anthropogenic Transformations of Nature-the Complexity of Transformation -- 9.4 Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- 10 Transformation of Society: Governance of Global Crises -- 10.1 Problems in Global Environmental Governance -- 10.2 Transformative Governance-Courses of Transformation -- 10.3 Discussion and Conclusions -- 10.4 Retrospect-The Anthropocene and the Transformation of the Capitalist Economy -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Anthropocene and Its Future
• ISBN: 3-031-56649-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910855375903321
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