Environmental Sociology

1. Introduction: New Trends and Interdisciplinarity Challenges in Environmental Sociology.- PART 1: Natural Flows and Global Environmental Discourse.- 2. Social Theories of Environmental Reform: Towards a Third Generation.- 3. The New Climate Change Discourse: A Challenge for Environmental Sociology.- 4. Earth System Governance and the Social Sciences.- 5. Ecological Regimes: Towards a Conceptual Integration of the Biophysical Environment into Social Theory.- PART II: Exploring Limits and New Possibilities for Understanding Environmental Rationalities.- 6. Understanding Responses to the Environmental and Ethical Aspects of Innovative Technologies: The Case of Synthetic Biology in Europe.- 7. Social Simulation: A Method to Investigate Environmental Change from a Social Science Perspective.- 8. Trust and Cooperation as Requirements for Maintaining Environmental Governance Capacity.- 9. Rational Choice Theory and the Environment: Variants, Applications, and New Trends.- 10. Environmental Knowledge and Deliberative Democracy.- PART III: Transdisciplinarity and Sustainable Development.- 11. Knowledge and Social Learning for Sustainable Development.- 12. Beyond Neocorporatism?! Transdisciplinary Case Studies as a Means for Collaborative Learning in Sustainable Development.- 13. Social Practices and Sustainable Consumption: Benefits and Limitations of a New Theoretical Approach.- 14. (Im)mobility and Environment-Society Relations: Arguments for and Against the ‘Mobilisation’ of Environmental Sociology.- PART IV: Ecological Adaptation Policies and Social Experimentation.- 15. Environmental Sustainability as Challenge for Media and Journalism.- 16. The Experimental Turn in Environmental Sociology: Pragmatism and New Forms of Governance.- 17. Risk, Society and Environmental Policy: Risk Governance in a Complex World.- 18. Climate Change and Society: Communicating Adaptation.- PART V: CodaChapter.- 19. Moving Ahead: Environmental Sociology’s Contribution to Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research.- Index.