Complexity and Resilience in the Social and Ecological Sciences
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Complexity and Resilience in the Social and Ecological Sciences
Eoin Flaherty
Complexity and Resilience in the Social and Ecological Sciences
Eoin Flaherty Sociology University College Dublin Dublin, UK
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Foreword
When I started to read this book I was hoping for an example of the use of the complexity frame of reference extended into the field of the Sociology of Ecology. Those of us engaged with complexity are very much committed to the expansion of the approach into engagement with both theoretical formulation and empirical research generating examples of application. Well I got that certainly, but I got a great deal more. This is a very substantial work of social theoretical synthesis. The title of Flaherty’s introduction describes his objective exactly, which is to develop: ‘A new approach to applied environmental sociology by integrating complexity informed social science, Marxian ecological theory and resilience- based human ecology’. He has done that but he has done something more. The synthesis he has developed has very wide applications beyond the specific field of environmental sociology. It represents an important and innovative contribution in social theory generally con
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