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Building on the on-going discussion about topical knowledge, social learning and sustainable development, this article discusses the problem horizon of non-sustainable development in order to highlight the necessity of social learning processes and to discuss the relevant conceptual approaches to social learning. It is argued that in order to meet the challenges of global environmental changes, social...
Stakeholder involvement in political decision processes is sometimes claimed being a corporatist arrangement – generally with a pejorative connotation. Answering this claim, I first review the discussion of neocorporatism. Secondly, I present our own work, the Transdisciplinary Case Study (TdCS). Through this design, we initiate and foster collaborative learning processes in sustainable development...
In environmental and consumer policy it has become common place to view the ‘critical consumer’ as the decisive agent for a change towards sustainable consumption. Private consumption, however, cannot be understood adequately as a matter of ‘personal choice’. Individualistic approaches do not take into account the complex socio-technical nature of consumption, its dependency on ‘systems of provison’,...
Physical (im)mobility is central to many interactions between human society and the biophysical world. The chapter presents arguments for and against the ‘mobilisation’ of environmental sociology. Drawing on Urry’s (2000, 2007) ‘new mobilities paradigm’, it asks how such a ‘mobility turn’ might affect the conceptual and methodological focus of this sub-discipline, including its ability to challenge...
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