Social-Ecological Transformation Reconnecting Society and Nature
This book advances a social-ecological theory to reconnect nature and society through sustainable transformation of interacting social and ecological systems. Knowledge integration across the boundaries of social and natural sciences is not widespread, bl
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Karl Bruckmeier
Social-Ecological Transformation
Karl Bruckmeier
Social-Ecological Transformation Reconnecting Society and Nature
Karl Bruckmeier National Research University Higher School of Economics Moscow, Russia
ISBN 978-1-137-43827-0 ISBN 978-1-137-43828-7 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-43828-7
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To the memory of Marina
Preface
The theme of this book is the social-ecological transformation of modern society to a sustainable future society. Difficulties in this process are twofold: complex environmental problems for which technological and engineering solutions are insufficient, and complex processes to be organised in the governance of global change or earth system governance. In sustainable development, as the transformation process is usually and inexactly called, a new democratic world order needs to be built to achieve the transformation to sustainability. Ends and means of global transformation interplay in complicated ways. The lack of success and the distortions of the prior sustainability process can be seen as a consequence of the prevailing policy: the neoliberal “green economy” strategy, aiming more at an ecological modernisation of the global economy than at a transformation into a sustainable economic system. In the 2015 summit of the United Nations a new agenda, “Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, was adopted. This soft policy document shows still the predominant and incoherent su
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