Challenges for social-ecological transformations: Contributions from social and political ecology

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Görg, Christoph ^a,b   Brand, Ulrich ^c   Haberl, Helmut ^a,b   Hummel, Diana ^d   Jahn, Thomas ^d   Liehr, Stefan ^d  

^a Institute of Social Ecology   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d Transdisciplinary Methods and Concepts   (Germany)

Author keywords

Land use; Political ecology; Resource extractivism; Social ecology; Social ecological transformation; Societal relations to nature; Transdisciplinarity; Water crisis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CRISIS MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; LAND USE CHANGE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POLITICAL ECONOMY; POWER RELATIONS; RESOURCE ECONOMY; SOCIAL CHANGE; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SUSTAINABILITY;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 85022039963     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su9071045     Document Type: Article

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