
Social Ecology in the Digital Age
Solving Complex Problems in a Globalized World
Description
Key Features
- The book traces historical origins and conceptual foundations of biological, human, and social ecology
- Offers a new conceptual framework that brings together earlier approaches to social ecology and extends them in novel directions
- Highlights the interrelations between four distinct but closely intertwined spheres of human environments: our natural, built, sociocultural, and virtual (cyber-based) surroundings
- Spans local to global scales and individual, organizational, community, regional, and global levels of analysis
- Applies core principles of social ecology to identify multi-level strategies for promoting personal and public health, resolving complex social problems, managing global environmental change, and creating resilient and sustainable communities
- Underscores social ecology’s vital importance for understanding and managing the environmental and political upheavals of the 21st Century
- Highlights descriptive, analytic, and transformative (or moral) concerns of social ecology
- Presents strategies for educating the next generation of social ecologists emphasizing transdisciplinary, team-based, translational, and transcultural approaches
Readership
Table of Contents
1. Discovering Social Ecology: A Personal Journey
2. Historical Origins and Conceptual Foundations of Social Ecology
3. Deriving Core Principles of Social Ecology
4. Rise of the Internet: Navigating Our Online and Place-Based Ecologies
5. Promoting Personal and Public Health
6. Confronting Complex Social Problems
7. Managing Global Environmental Change
8. Designing Resilient and Sustainable Communities
9. Educating the Next Generation of Social Ecologists
10. Epilogue
Product details
- No. of pages: 406
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2017
- Published: October 16, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128141885
- eBook ISBN: 9780128031148
About the Author
Daniel Stokols
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
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James H. Tue Feb 06 2018
Social Ecology is the future
SOCIAL ECOLOGY IN THE DIGITAL AGE by Daniel Stokols is the book we have been waiting for. This thoughtful and thought-provoking book is written in accessible prose to be read by students, academics, and ordinary people concerned about the future of our planet earth and the dangerous trajectory many ignore or deny. Humankind needs to honestly identify, analyze, and tackle complex environmental problems in this digital age. The field of Social Ecology, with its transdisciplinary approach, offers hope for the future. A must-read for politicians, planners, government policy makers, and all concerned citizens. James G. Hall, MD
Scott B. Wed Jan 24 2018
Tour de force
Stokols' magnum opus highlights the significant value of multi-scale, trans-disciplinary research in addressing the complex and wicked problems of modern life. Not solely an excellent synthesis, this book also extends social ecological thinking to the proliferating digital and virtual world we find ourselves in today. Highly recommended.