Table of Contents

Natural Flows and Global Environmental Discourse.- Introduction: New Trends and Interdisciplinary Challenges in Environmental Sociology.- Social Theories of Environmental Reform: Towards a Third Generation.- The New Climate Change Discourse: A Challenge for Environmental Sociology.- Earth System Governance and the Social Sciences.- Ecological Regimes: Towards a Conceptual Integration of Biophysical Environment into Social Theory.- Exploring Limits and New Possibilities for Understanding Environmental Rationalities.- Understanding Responses to the Environmental and Ethical Aspects of Innovative Technologies: The Case of Synthetic Biology in Europe.- Social Simulation: A Method to Investigate Environmental Change from a Social Science Perspective.- Trust and Cooperation as Requirements for Maintaining Environmental Governance Capacity.- Rational Choice Theory and the Environment: Variants, Applications, and New Trends.- Environmental Knowledge and Deliberative Democracy.- Transdisciplinarity and Sustainable Development.- Knowledge and Social Learning for Sustainable Development.- Beyond Neocorporatism? Transdisciplinary Case Studies as a Means for Collaborative Learning in Sustainable Development.- Social Practices and Sustainable Consumption: Benefits and Limitations of a New Theoretical Approach.- (Im)mobility and Environment–Society Relations: Arguments for and Against the ‘Mobilisation’ of Environmental Sociology.- Ecological Adaptation Policies and Social Experimentation.- Environmental Sustainability as Challenge for Media and Journalism.- The Experimental Turn in Environmental Sociology: Pragmatism and New Forms of Governance.- Risk, Society and Environmental Policy: Risk Governance in a Complex World.- Climate Change and Society – CommunicatingAdaptation.- Coda Chapter.- Moving Ahead: Environmental Sociology’s Contribution to Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research.

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Providing an overview of contemporary interdisciplinary connections relevant to and from environmental sociology