Global Environmental Governance: Social-Ecological Perspectives

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This book provides a critical review of global environmental governance as part of the broader process of sustainably transforming modern society. The author argues for substantial modifications, outlining potential improvements in knowledge bridging processes, integration and synthesis that offer valuable information for environmental policy and governance. These improvements, he argues, should be achieved through the use of theoretical and empirical knowledge gleaned from global scenario analysis and interdisciplinary environmental research, and with the aid of new practices for knowledge sharing, cooperation and collective learning. The analysis presented in the book is based on recent developments in social ecology and the author’s interdisciplinary theory of society-nature interaction (Social-Ecological Transformation: Reconnecting Society and Nature, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Introduction (Karl Bruckmeier)....Pages 1-12 Front Matter ....Pages 13-13 Environmental Change: Human Modification of Nature—Social and Environmental Consequences (Karl Bruckmeier)....Pages 15-50 Social Change: Social Agency and Human Relations with Nature in the Industrial Society (Karl Bruckmeier)....Pages 51-84 Policy Change: Crisis of Environmental Policy and Global Governance (Karl Bruckmeier)....Pages 85-118 Front Matter ....Pages 119-119 Environmental Research and Governance: Institutional Problems of Bridging Knowledge Divides and Communicating Science (Karl Bruckmeier)....Pages 121-151 Interdisciplinary Knowledge Integration for Environmental Governance: Epistemological Questions (Karl Bruckmeier)....Pages 153-178 Social–Ecological Theory and Environmental Governance (Karl Bruckmeier)....Pages 179-203 Front Matter ....Pages 205-205 Global Environmental Change and the Transformation of the Earth System (Karl Bruckmeier)....Pages 207-228 Beyond Globalisation: Another Transformation of the Economic World System (Karl Bruckmeier)....Pages 229-256 Rethinking and Renewing Global Environmental Governance as Part of Social–Ecological Transformation (Karl Bruckmeier)....Pages 257-286 Back Matter ....Pages 287-289