World Social Science Report 2013 Changing Global Environments

Produced by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and UNESCO, and published by the OECD, the 2013 World Social Science Report represents a comprehensive overview of the field gathering the thoughts and expertise of hundreds of social scientists from around the world. This edition focuses o...

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Autor principal: International Social Science Council.
Autores Corporativos: International Social Science Council (-), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Paris : Paris : OECD Publishing ; Unesco Publishing 2013.
París : 2015.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Women and climate change adaptation in Zimbabwe
  • Social sciences at the crossroads: Global environmental change in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Global Land Project
  • Brazilian studies on environmental activism
  • The social sciences and global environmental change in the United States
  • Global Environmental Change and Human Health
  • Ethics and energy consumption
  • Debating transformation in multiple crises
  • The challenge of sustainable development and the social sciences
  • Green informal services in India? Rickshaws, rag picking and street vending
  • Ethics as a core driver of sustainability in the Caribbean
  • Social sciences and global environmental change research in Latin America
  • Monitoring the effectiveness of adaptation investments
  • Global Environmental Change and Food Systems
  • Global Carbon Project
  • Ex-rubber tappers' and small farmers' views of weather changes in the Amazon
  • The ethics of geoengineering
  • Payments for ecosystem services in biodiversity conservation
  • Sacred sustainability? Benedictine monasteries in Austria and Germany
  • The role of religion, education and policy in Iran in valuing the environment
  • Global environmental change changes everything: Key messages and recommendations
  • Promises and pitfalls of the green economy
  • Contributions from International Social Science Council members, programmes and partners
  • Possibilities and prospects of social change in response to the environmental crisis
  • Quo vadis? The state of social sciences and climate and global environmental change in Europe
  • Land–Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone
  • Psychological approaches and contributions to global environmental change
  • Urbanization and Global Environmental Change
  • Social and environmental change in a complex, uncertain world
  • Making sense of techno-optimism? The social science of nanotechnology and sustainability
  • Global environmental change and the social sciences in the Arab world
  • The state of social sciences and global environmental change in Russia
  • Public engagement in discussing carbon capture and storage
  • Anthropology and environmental change from a holistic and cultural perspective
  • What's the problem? Putting global environmental change into perspective
  • Population and land-change dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon
  • Bringing poor people's voices into policy discussions
  • Resilience and adaptation in Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Quebec's Plan Nord and integrating indigenous knowledge into social science research
  • Social science understandings of transformation
  • Glass half full or half empty? Transboundary water co-operation in the Jordan River Basin
  • The risks of global warming to coral reef ecosystems
  • Glossary
  • A new vision of open knowledge systems for sustainability: Opportunities for social scientists
  • Changing the conditions of change by learning to use the future differently
  • Climate is culture
  • Participatory water governance in Mercosur countries
  • Open knowledge and learning for sustainability
  • Winning environmental justice for the Lower Mekong Basin
  • Global governance and sustainable development
  • Bibliometric analysis of social science research into global environmental change
  • Vulnerable and resilient children after disasters and gene–environment interplay
  • Migration as an adaptation strategy to environmental change
  • Basic statistics on the production of social science research
  • Towards greater fairness in sharing the risks and burdens of global environmental change
  • Integrated Research on Disaster Risk programme
  • The role of the social sciences in adapting to climate change in northern Europe
  • Climate change mitigation, a problem of injustice
  • The politics of climate change and grassroots demands
  • The paradoxes of climate change and migration
  • Regional divides in global environmental change research capacity
  • Climate change education and Education for Sustainable Development
  • A functional risk society? Progressing from management to governance while learning from disasters
  • Incentives for low-carbon communities in Shanghai, China
  • Social science research on global environmental change in the Asia-Pacific region
  • Education, science and climate change in French schools
  • Social learning and climate change adaptation in Thailand
  • Are Algerian agro-pastoralists adapting to climate change?
  • Transition to sustainable societies – was Rio+20 a missed opportunity?
  • The consequences of global environmental change
  • Relocation as a policy response to climate change vulnerability in northern China
  • Fighting to include local voices in environmental policy-making in Brazil
  • Inclusive wealth and the transition to sustainability
  • Indigenous groups and climate change in Colombia
  • Between social and planetary boundaries: Navigating pathways in the safe and just space for humanity
  • Are increasing greenhouse gas emissions inevitable?
  • Gender and environmental change
  • Sustainable consumption and lifestyles? Children and youth in cities
  • The need for indigenous knowledge in adaptation to climate change in Nigeria
  • Environmental attitudes and demographics
  • The human dimensions of global environmental change
  • Climate change, flooding and economic well-being in Nigerian cities
  • Social science perspectives on global environmental change in sub-Saharan Africa
  • Towards responsible social sciences
  • Acknowledgements
  • The economics of climate and environmental change
  • Industrial Transformation
  • Integrated History and Future of People on Earth
  • Biodiversity loss and corporate commitment to the UN Global Compact
  • Acronyms and abbreviations
  • Bringing new meanings to molecules by integrating green chemistry and the social sciences
  • Environmental issues and household sustainability in Australia
  • Dealing with “wicked” environmental problems
  • The humanities and changing global environments
  • Going green? Using evolutionary psychology to foster sustainable lifestyles
  • Social sciences in a changing global environment: General introduction
  • Individual and collective behaviour change
  • African perspectives needed on global environmental change research
  • Global Environmental Change and Human Security
  • Models of human behaviour in social-ecological systems
  • Geography and global environmental change
  • Global Water System Project
  • Social science research and global environmental change in India and South Asia
  • Earth System Governance
  • Preface
  • Global environmental change and the social sciences in eastern and southern Africa
  • Is the IPCC a learning organisation?
  • Sociology and global environmental change
  • Social science research on climate change in China
  • The role of LA RED in disaster risk management in Latin America
  • Social sciences in Japan after Fukushima
  • Preface – A lighter carbon footprint, a greener world
  • Political science, global environmental change and sustainable development
  • Social aspects of solid waste in the global South
  • Failing to translate science into policy? From Stockholm 1972 to Rio+20.