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Complexity and Resilience in the Social and Ecological Sciences

Complexity and Resilience in the Social and Ecological Sciences

Flaherty, Eoin

Hardcover

Environmental StudiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1137549777
ISBN13: 9781137549778
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Aug 28 2018
Pages: 265
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book introduces a new approach to environmental sociology, by integrating complexity-informed social science, Marxian ecological theory, and resilience-based human ecology. It argues that sociologists have largely ignored developments in ecology which move beyond functionalist approaches to systems analysis, and as a result, environmental sociology has failed to capitalise not only on the analytical promise of resilience ecology, but on complementary developments in complexity theory. By tracing the origins and discussing current developments in each of these areas, it offers several paths to interdisciplinary dialogue. Eoin Flaherty argues that complexity theory and Marxian ecology can enhance our understanding of the social aspect of social-ecological systems, whilst a resilience approach can sharpen the analytical power of environmental sociology.

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