1st Edition

The Social Aspects of Environmental and Climate Change Institutional Dynamics Beyond a Linear Model

By E. C. H. Keskitalo Copyright 2022
192 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Social Aspects of Environmental and Climate Change critically examines the prominence of natural science framing in mainstream climate change research and demonstrates why climate change really is a social issue. The book highlights how assumptions regarding social and cultural systems that are common in sustainability science have impeded progress in understanding environmental and... Read more

Chapter 1: Aim and scope of the book

Chapter 2: The origins of climate change research and assumptions within the field

Chapter 3: The role of theory and case studies in social science: means to understanding institutions and contextualising instruments

Chapter 4: The complex of issues influencing action on climate change: examples from forestry and multi-level cases

Chapter 5: Why knowledge is not enough: limits to communication and learning

Chapter 6: Why understanding stakeholder participation requires understanding power and institutions

Chapter 7: Understanding environment, society, and scale: why outcomes of the same types of measures are not the same everywhere, and local level is not only local

Chapter 8: Conclusion: implications of an institutional understanding

Biography

E. Carina H. Keskitalo is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Geography, UmeƄ University, Sweden.