| Preface |
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| Preface – A lighter carbon footprint, a greener world |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Acronyms and abbreviations |
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Changing global environments2 chapters available
| Social sciences in a changing global environment: General introduction |
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| Global environmental change changes everything: Key messages and recommendations |
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The complexity and urgency of global environmental change and social transformation10 chapters available
| Social and environmental change in a complex, uncertain world |
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| What's the problem? Putting global environmental change into perspective |
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| The challenge of sustainable development and the social sciences |
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| Between social and planetary boundaries: Navigating pathways in the safe and just
space for humanity
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| Inclusive wealth and the transition to sustainability |
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| Gender and environmental change |
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| Social science understandings of transformation |
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| Changing the conditions of change by learning to use the future differently |
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| A new vision of open knowledge systems for sustainability: Opportunities for social
scientists
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| Open knowledge and learning for sustainability |
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Social science capacity in global environmental change research15 chapters available
| Regional divides in global environmental change research capacity |
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| The social sciences and global environmental change in the United States |
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| Social sciences at the crossroads: Global environmental change in Latin America and
the Caribbean
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| Brazilian studies on environmental activism |
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| Social sciences and global environmental change research in Latin America |
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| Quo vadis? The state of social sciences and climate and global environmental change
in Europe
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| The state of social sciences and global environmental change in Russia |
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| Global environmental change and the social sciences in the Arab world |
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| Social science perspectives on global environmental change in sub-Saharan Africa |
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| African perspectives needed on global environmental change research |
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| Global environmental change and the social sciences in eastern and southern Africa |
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| Social science research and global environmental change in India and South Asia |
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| Social science research on climate change in China |
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| Social sciences in Japan after Fukushima |
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| Social science research on global environmental change in the Asia-Pacific region |
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The consequences of global environmental change for society13 chapters available
| The consequences of global environmental change |
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| Are Algerian agro-pastoralists adapting to climate change? |
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| Relocation as a policy response to climate change vulnerability in northern China |
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| Climate change, flooding and economic well-being in Nigerian cities |
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| Resilience and adaptation in Dhaka, Bangladesh |
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| Population and land-change dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon |
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| The risks of global warming to coral reef ecosystems |
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| Vulnerable and resilient children after disasters and gene–environment interplay |
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| Migration as an adaptation strategy to environmental change |
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| The paradoxes of climate change and migration |
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| The role of the social sciences in adapting to climate change in northern Europe |
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| Women and climate change adaptation in Zimbabwe |
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| Ex-rubber tappers' and small farmers' views of weather changes in the Amazon |
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Conditions and visions for change and sense-making in a rapidly changing world18 chapters available
| Possibilities and prospects of social change in response to the environmental crisis |
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| Promises and pitfalls of the green economy |
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| Making sense of techno-optimism? The social science of nanotechnology and sustainability |
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| Bringing new meanings to molecules by integrating green chemistry and the social sciences |
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| Individual and collective behaviour change |
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| Going green? Using evolutionary psychology to foster sustainable lifestyles |
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| Environmental issues and household sustainability in Australia |
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| Models of human behaviour in social-ecological systems |
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| Social aspects of solid waste in the global South |
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| Incentives for low-carbon communities in Shanghai, China |
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| Climate change education and Education for Sustainable Development |
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| Education, science and climate change in French schools |
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| Are increasing greenhouse gas emissions inevitable? |
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| The human dimensions of global environmental change |
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| Environmental attitudes and demographics |
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| Sustainable consumption and lifestyles? Children and youth in cities |
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| Bringing poor people's voices into policy discussions |
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| Climate is culture |
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The responsibilities and ethical challenges of tackling global environmental change11 chapters available
| Towards greater fairness in sharing the risks and burdens of global environmental
change
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| Winning environmental justice for the Lower Mekong Basin |
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| Climate change mitigation, a problem of injustice |
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| Ethics and energy consumption |
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| The ethics of geoengineering |
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| Ethics as a core driver of sustainability in the Caribbean |
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| The role of religion, education and policy in Iran in valuing the environment |
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| Sacred sustainability? Benedictine monasteries in Austria and Germany |
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| Public engagement in discussing carbon capture and storage |
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| Biodiversity loss and corporate commitment to the UN Global Compact |
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| Towards responsible social sciences |
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New approaches to governance and decision-making19 chapters available
| Dealing with “wicked” environmental problems |
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| Is the IPCC a learning organisation? |
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| Failing to translate science into policy? From Stockholm 1972 to Rio+20 |
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| The role of LA RED in disaster risk management in Latin America |
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| A functional risk society? Progressing from management to governance while learning
from disasters
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| Transition to sustainable societies – was Rio+20 a missed opportunity? |
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| Social learning and climate change adaptation in Thailand |
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| Indigenous groups and climate change in Colombia |
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| Fighting to include local voices in environmental policy-making in Brazil |
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| The need for indigenous knowledge in adaptation to climate change in Nigeria |
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| Quebec's Plan Nord and integrating indigenous knowledge into social science research |
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| Participatory water governance in Mercosur countries |
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| Glass half full or half empty? Transboundary water co-operation in the Jordan River
Basin
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| Global governance and sustainable development |
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| The politics of climate change and grassroots demands |
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| Green informal services in India? Rickshaws, rag picking and street vending |
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| Debating transformation in multiple crises |
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| Payments for ecosystem services in biodiversity conservation |
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| Monitoring the effectiveness of adaptation investments |
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Contributions from International Social Science Council members, programmes and partners20 chapters available
| Contributions from International Social Science Council members, programmes and partners |
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| Anthropology and environmental change from a holistic and cultural perspective |
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| Psychological approaches and contributions to global environmental change |
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| The economics of climate and environmental change |
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| The humanities and changing global environments |
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| Sociology and global environmental change |
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| Geography and global environmental change |
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| Political science, global environmental change and sustainable development |
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| Earth System Governance |
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| Global Water System Project |
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| Global Environmental Change and Human Security |
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| Integrated History and Future of People on Earth |
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| Industrial Transformation |
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| Urbanization and Global Environmental Change |
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| Land–Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone |
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| Global Carbon Project |
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| Global Environmental Change and Food Systems |
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| Global Environmental Change and Human Health |
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| Global Land Project |
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| Integrated Research on Disaster Risk programme |
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Annexes3 chapters available
| Basic statistics on the production of social science research |
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| Bibliometric analysis of social science research into global environmental change |
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| Glossary |
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