{"product_id":"sustainability-and-the-social-sciences-a-cross-disciplinary-approach-to-integrating-environmental-considerations-into-thoeretical-reorientation-paperback","title":"Sustainability and the Social Sciences: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Integrating Environmental Considerations Into Thoeretical Reorientation - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas Jahn\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eEgon Becker\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe eminent contributors to this volume explores the complex terrain of the interface between the social sciences and environmental research. Coming from a range of Social Science disciplines, they argue that environmental questions will increasingly dominate humanity in the course of the coming century. This reality holds out an opportunity, and indeed practical necessity, of stimulating important new lines of theoretical development within the social sciences as well as new forms of intellectual cooperation across them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking sustainability as the potential common term of reference which can help generate problems to which responses must be found, this volume seeks: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e* To clarify the meaning and analytical implications of sustainability from a social sciences perspective in order to establish starting points for new research; \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e* To explore the potential contributions of different social science disciplines to the sustainability debate; \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e* And more ambitiously, to suggest ways in which the conceptual implications of sustainability can promote a reorientation of the social sciences themselves.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEgon Becker is Professor for Theory of Science and Sociology of Higher Education at the University of Frankfurt. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThomas Jahn is Executive Director of the Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE), Frankfurt.\u003cbr\u003eEgon Becker is Professor for Theory of Science and Sociology of Higher Education at the University of Frankfurt. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThomas Jahn is Executive Director of the Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE), Frankfurt.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.86 x 9.25 x 6.09 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47665025220829,"sku":"9781856497091","price":106.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/IUJXl2pubB9781856497091.webp?v=1773915166","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/sustainability-and-the-social-sciences-a-cross-disciplinary-approach-to-integrating-environmental-considerations-into-thoeretical-reorientation-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}