Overview
- Analyses social and ecological processes that shape the future of the global society in the twenty-first century
- Provides discussion of processes and their interaction from inter- and transdisciplinary transformation research
- Transformation of modes of living in the social lifeworld are described showing changes during the Anthropocene
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This book analyses the complex social and ecological processes of the Great Acceleration, the Great Transformation, and sustainable development that shape the future of the global society in the twenty-first century. The first process takes place for a longer time, the second over the past thirty years, with attempts to build a sustainable economy and society in the global policy of sustainable development. The processes and their interaction will be discussed with knowledge from inter- and transdisciplinary transformation research, social and political ecology, and theories of modern society. The guiding theoretical concepts for the social-ecological transformation will be clarified: the concepts of acceleration, transformation, and sustainable development, and the societal and ecological processes they include. To obtain a more detailed picture of the changes in the global social-ecological system, different parts of the global transformation, the digital transformation, the transformation of food systems, and the transformation of modes of living in the social lifeworld are described to show the complex changes in the epoch of the Anthropocene more concretely. The global change processes in society and nature are caused by human forces but are difficult to control through policy and governance. With the interdisciplinary integration of concepts and knowledge, it becomes possible to provide a more detailed picture, of the difficulties to achieve a sustainable future society.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Complexity of Global Change—Acceleration and Transformation
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Problems in the Great Transformation
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The Future—Nature and Society
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Anthropocene and its Future
Book Subtitle: The Challenges of Accelerating Social and Ecological Change
Authors: Karl Bruckmeier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56649-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-56648-6Published: 01 May 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-56651-6Due: 01 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-56649-3Published: 30 April 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 300
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Human Geography, Environmental Management, Geography, general