Social Structures And Natural Systems

Author : Georges Guille-Escuret
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786302007

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Social Structures and Natural Systems by Georges Guille-Escuret Pdf

Trapped between the caricatured causalities of biological determinism and the sinister abdications of sociological relativism, socio-ecological interdisciplinarity stagnates. It has lost sight of the ambition of a long-term program and no longer works to conduct applied research on the concrete prerequisites for reliable cooperation, despite an accumulation of emergencies. The difficulty lies in the general and prolonged abandonment of necessary procedures under the influence of hidden philosophical presumptions. In the end, ecology, sociology, history, economics, agronomy, etc. are seriously handicapped by the absence of a common epistemology of comparative practice, an absence maintained by the dominant epistemology itself. Social Structures and Natural Systems seeks to demonstrate, with regard to social anthropology and ecology, a scientific compatibility of research subject to methodological requirements that are deductible from the conditions of the existence of science itself. All of this boils down to one observation: this book will be a success if, and only if, it becomes a beginning.

Author : Svetlana G. Maximova,Roman I. Raikin,Alexander A. Chibilev,Marina M. Silantyeva
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030780838

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Advances in Natural, Human-Made, and Coupled Human-Natural Systems Research by Svetlana G. Maximova,Roman I. Raikin,Alexander A. Chibilev,Marina M. Silantyeva Pdf

This book is a unique collection of advanced research on natural, human-made, and coupled human–natural systems. The contributors analyze the current state of knowledge, address methodological challenges, and explore engaging cases. The chapters demonstrate the balanced disciplinary strength and discuss interdisciplinary perspectives. The authors undertake a holistic and spatially integrative analysis to understand the sustainability of environmental, economic, and social systems, emphasizing the coupled nature of such systems. In particular, the chapters explore biodiversity conservation and natural resources, the sustainability of natural and human-altered ecosystems, sustainability–vulnerability issues in coupled human–natural systems, mechanisms to foster sustainable environmental practices, eventually accumulating sustainability research and practice in various fields. More than that, the challenges of educational and economic systems are studied closely. The authors rely on unique data, develop regional and local knowledge, and explore global trends at local scales. A separate focus is devoted to human health and well-being. The book has seven sections: (1) Advances in Natural and Coupled Human–Natural Systems Research; (2) Economic Systems in the Age of Digital Changes and Unstable Environments; (3) Sustainable Social Systems, Migration Flows, and Social Cohesion; (4) Taking Action for Greater Security and Effective Partnerships for Sustainable Development; (5) Systemic Challenges and Changes in Education Systems in Russia and Around the Globe; (6) Advances in Cultural Traditions and Innovation, Development Barriers, and Social Stability; (7) Human Health and Well-being: Taking Action for Sustainable Development. Written by scholars and practitioners from multiple fields of knowledge, the book is designed for a broader audience interested in the following research areas: systems research and thinking, sustainability research and thinking, system dynamics, management of complexity, decision analysis, organization theory, governance, natural resources, environmental studies, economic development, social policies, cleaner production, innovation, cultural studies, and sustainable practices.

Author : Maren Wagner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319335513

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Social Emergence in International Relations by Maren Wagner Pdf

This book presents a conceptualization of social emergence in international relations as a novel angle to analyse institutional dynamics in East Asia, introducing the concept of emergence from a critical realist perspective. The author examines East Asia’s characteristic mesh work of regional institutions that affect integrative processes and regional policies, exploring how such institutions emerge and acquire their own nature and why this pattern persists over time, an unresolved and contested subject in the field of International Relations. This book suggests that regional institutions are emergent entities of the international system that arise as forms of self-organization by states to achieve certain emergent properties and powers. The author’s approach sheds light on the particular emergent properties and powers of regional institutions and identifies discourse as a key mechanism of social emergence. Besides engaging in relevant questions of the philosophy of science and its methodological implications for studying social emergence in world politics, the book also analyses the concrete case of two East Asian regional institutions: ASEAN Plus Three and the East Asia Summit. This book will engage scholars and postgraduate students of Asian Studies and International Relations.

Author : Shikui Dong,Karim-Aly S. Kassam,Jean François Tourrand,Randall B. Boone
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319307329

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Building Resilience of Human-Natural Systems of Pastoralism in the Developing World by Shikui Dong,Karim-Aly S. Kassam,Jean François Tourrand,Randall B. Boone Pdf

This edited volume summarizes information about the situational context, threats, problems, challenges and solutions for sustainable pastoralism at a global scale. The book has four goals. The first goal is to summarize the information about the history, distribution and patterns of pastoralism and to identify the importance of pastoralism from social, economic and environmental perspectives. The results of an empirical investigation of the environmental and socio-economic implications of pastoralism in representative pastoral regions in the world are also incorporated. The second goal is to argue that breaking coupled human-natural systems of pastoralism leads to degradation of pastoral ecosystems and to create an analysis framework to assess the vulnerability of worldwide pastoralism. Our analysis framework provides approaches to help comprehensively understand the transitions and the impacts of human-natural systems in the pastoral regions in the world. The third goal is to identify the successful models in promoting coupled human-natural systems of pastoralism, and to learn lessons of breaking coupled human-cultural pastoralism systems through examining the representative cases in regions including Central Asia, Southern and Eastern Asia, Northern and Eastern Africa, the European Alps and South America. The fourth goal is to identify the strategies to build the resilience of the coupled human-natural systems of pastoralism worldwide. We hope that our book can facilitate the further examination of sustainable development of coupled human-natural systems of pastoralism by providing the summaries of existing data and information related to the pastoralism development, and by offering a framework for better understanding and analysis of their social, economic and environmental implications.

Author : David Inglis,John Bone,Rhoda Wilkie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415333075

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Nature: From nature to natures : contestation and reconstruction by David Inglis,John Bone,Rhoda Wilkie Pdf

Author : Alan Kirschenbaum
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781482276398

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Chaos Organization and Disaster Management by Alan Kirschenbaum Pdf

Chaos Organization and Disaster Management offers a scholarly survey of disaster response behavior and management in the face of natural and manmade catastrophe. The author provides a methodological and empirical platform from which to initiate a critical analysis of disaster management. Sparked by a unique field study of the Israeli experience dur

Author : Mark A. Brennan,Rhonda Phillips,Norman Walzer,Brent D. Hales
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000823967

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Community Development for Times of Crisis by Mark A. Brennan,Rhonda Phillips,Norman Walzer,Brent D. Hales Pdf

This book explores the intersection of community development and local capacity building as a basis for effective disaster mitigation and the alleviation of suffering in times of crisis. Beginning with the Community Development section, the process, context, and methods for community, engagement, and development can be viewed from different structural and logical approaches. This section explores some of the more relevant historical arguments, as well as more contemporary examinations. The second section looks at Critical Human and Community Considerations and sheds light on some of the key concepts that are often overlooked (poverty, race, inequality, social justice, mental health, social division) when framing community responses to disaster. The third section focuses on Fundamental Elements of Caring Communities. This section explores the importance, practical, and measurable impacts of social support, empathy, inclusion, and conflict resolution in creating effective and caring community responses. Finally, the last section focuses on practice and brings together research and theory into applied programming, examples, and evidence from on-the-ground efforts to establish caring communities that respond to local needs in times of crisis and beyond. By addressing these objectives, this book provides a more complete understanding of the essential role that community can play in disaster mitigation. Doing this will provide a better focus for ongoing research endeavors, and program and policy initiatives at the community level that seek to prepare for, respond to, and recover from natural and other disasters. As a result, this book contributes to wider and more sustainable development of our communities beyond disasters, while furthering dialog among community scholars and practitioners.

Author : Dave Elder-Vass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139488198

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The Causal Power of Social Structures by Dave Elder-Vass Pdf

The problem of structure and agency has been the subject of intense debate in the social sciences for over 100 years. This book offers a solution. Using a critical realist version of the theory of emergence, Dave Elder-Vass argues that, instead of ascribing causal significance to an abstract notion of social structure or a monolithic concept of society, we must recognise that it is specific groups of people that have social structural power. Some of these groups are entities with emergent causal powers, distinct from those of human individuals. Yet these powers also depend on the contributions of human individuals, and this book examines the mechanisms through which interactions between human individuals generate the causal powers of some types of social structures. The Causal Power of Social Structures makes particularly important contributions to the theory of human agency and to our understanding of normative institutions.

Author : Andrew Sayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134902897

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Method in Social Science by Andrew Sayer Pdf

Method in Social Science was widely praised on its first publication for providing a series of penetrating reflections on central questions in social science discourse. This second edition directly reflects new developments in the areas of philosophy and method. The introduction has been rewritten and substantially enlarged, clarifying many of the arguments that appear in the text. There is also a short discussion of the importance of narrative form, particularly useful for students concerned with the problems of writing, composition and presentation of their own material.

Author : R. Andrew Sayer
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social sciences
ISBN : 9780415076074

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Method in Social Science by R. Andrew Sayer Pdf

Widely praised on its first publication, this second edition directly reflects new developments in the areas of philosophy and method.

Author : Theodore Alter,Paul Martin,Don Hine,Tanya Howard
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781486308897

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Community-based Control of Invasive Species by Theodore Alter,Paul Martin,Don Hine,Tanya Howard Pdf

Invasive species are among the greatest challenges to environmental sustainability and agricultural productivity in the world. One of the most promising approaches to managing invasive species is voluntary citizen stewardship. However, in order for control measures to be effective, private citizens often need to make sustained and sometimes burdensome commitments. Community-Based Control of Invasive Species is based on five years of research by leading scholars in natural resource and human behavioural sciences, which involved government and citizen groups in Australia and the United States. It examines questions including, 'how can citizens be engaged in voluntarily managing invasive species?', 'what communication strategies will ensure good motivation and coordination?' and 'how can governing bodies support citizens in their efforts?'. With chapters on institutional frameworks, changing governance, systems thinking, organisational learning, engagement, communication and behavioural change, this book will be a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners involved in natural resources management.

Author : George Racin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Gypsy moth
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113750017

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Guide to the Stand-damage Model Interface Management System by George Racin Pdf

Author : Frederick L. Bates
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781489902511

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Sociopolitical Ecology by Frederick L. Bates Pdf

Sociopolitical Ecology introduces the concept of `ecological field' to replace that of `ecosystem' and extends the boundaries of self-referential systems to a new, more complex level of analysis. Ecological field refers to an overarching system that contains many self-referential (or autopoietic) systems that interact in a common space, with human beings placed squarely in the middle of all natural ecological networks. The focus of this fascinating study is the interlocking pattern of relations among human beings within an ecological field - what the author designates as `sociopolitical ecology'. The book argues that most societies are not self-contained systems, but rather ecological fields, that is complexes of several interacting systems.

Author : Ervin Laszlo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000436686

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Introduction to Systems Philosophy by Ervin Laszlo Pdf

First Published in 1972, Introduction to Systems Philosophy presents Ervin Laszlo’s first comprehensive volume on the subject. It argues for a systematic and constructive inquiry into natural phenomenon on the assumption of general order in nature. Laszlo says systems philosophy reintegrates the concept of enduring universals with transient processes within a non-bifurcated, hierarchically differentiated realm of invariant systems, as the ultimate actualities of self-structuring nature. He brings themes like the promise of systems philosophy; theory of natural systems; empirical interpretations of physical, biological, and social systems; frameworks for philosophy of mind, philosophy of nature, ontology, epistemology, metaphysics and normative ethics, to showcase the timeliness and necessity of a return from analytic to synthetic philosophy. This book is an essential read for any scholar and researcher of philosophy, philosophy of science and systems theory.

Author : David West
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745671987

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Social Movements in Global Politics by David West Pdf

Social Movements in Global Politics is a timely new account of the unconventional, ‘extra-institutional’ activities of social movements. In the face of impending global crises and stubborn conflicts, a conventional view of politics risks leaving us confused and fatalistic, feeling powerless because we are unaware of all that can be achieved by political means. By contrast, a variety of recent social movements, ranging from those of women, gays and lesbians and anti-racists, to environmentalists, the Occupy movement and the Arab Spring, demonstrate the enormous potential of political action beyond the institutional sphere of politics. At the same time, religious fundamentalists, racial supremacists and ultra-nationalists make clear that movements are not necessarily progressive and are often at odds with one another. West highlights the many ways in which national and global institutions depend on a broader context of extra-institutional action or what is, in effect, the formative dimension of politics. He explores some of the major contributions of social movements: from the genealogy of liberal democratic nation-states, sixties’ radicalism and the ‘new social movements’ to the politics of sexuality, gender and identity, the politicization of nature and climate, and alter-globalization. The book also considers current theoretical approaches and sets out the basis for a critical theory of social movements. This is a fresh and original account of social movements in politics and will be essential reading for any students and scholars interested in the challenges and the unpredictable potential of political action.