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Provides information from numerous fields of knowledge relevant to the study of environmental issues, including biology, geology, anthropology, demographics, genetics, and engineering, and explains the interrelationships of these issues.

About the author; Title page; Copyright; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Problem of Energy; Energy; Oil; Summarizing the argument; The problem of oil is 42; PART I Oil Dregs; Chapter 1: Oil and the Crash of 2007-08; Oil and money; Neoliberalism; Sprawltown; Conclusion; Chapter 2: The Century of Oil; Humans and nature; The origins of oil civilization; Figure 2.1 Sources of global carbon emissions, 1800-2010; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Consuming Miles; Consuming from afar; Dubai; From neighbourhood lives; Places for consuming; More consumers; Conclusion.

This annual yearbook presents essays in environmental history based on lectures given at the Göttingen study group "Environmental History" by external authors. As previous yearbooks it is dedicated to the plurality of approaches in environmental history and serves as a valuable source for information about current research in that realm.

This annual yearbook presents essays in environmental history based on lectures given at the Göttingen study group "Environmental History" by external authors. As previous yearbooks it is dedicated to the plurality of approaches in environmental history and serves as a valuable source for information about current research in that realm. - Seit seiner Gründung vor annähernd 25 Jahren hat sich das Göttinger Umwelthistorische Kolloquium zu einer Einrichtung entwickelt, welche die vielfältigen, thematisch einschlägigen Aktivitäten des Standortes wie auch des deutschsprachigen Raumes durch Austausch von Forschungsergebnissen und Sichtweisen bündelt. Von hier haben auch einige Unternehmungen ihren Ausgang genommen, welche zum heutigen Profil der Umweltgeschichte spürbar beitrugen. Der Band vereinigt Beiträge zum Kolloquium des Sommersemesters 2007 und des Wintersemesters 2008.

Humans live in social communities that are embedded ecologically within overlapping biophysical environments. This volume facilitates an ongoing dialogue between community sociologists and environmental sociologists about how humans interact with each other in social communities and with biophysical environments in an ecological community. The chapters in this volume contribute to three related areas of scholarship. First, chapters two through four deal with the ecological and social significance of place. The authors of these three chapters examine different theoretical and substantive dilemmas regarding place and ecology. Their scholarship investigates the significance of place across a range of natural, modified, and built environments. Second, chapters five through seven deal with the challenges of local sustainability. The authors of these three chapters perform scholarship on social, economic and ecological dimensions of local sustainability. Third, chapters eight through eleven deal with local environmental politics. The authors of these four chapters examine the various dynamics of local political processes in communities across three continents. These scholars explicitly examine how the structure of political opportunities in different localities affects the mobilization necessary to recognize and ameliorate environmental problems. We anticipate that this volume furthers the cross-pollination of ideas between community sociologists and environmental sociologists. Ultimately, the heightened and sustained communication between these two groups of scholars may lead to emergent theoretical, methodological, and substantive insights that may contribute to the discipline of sociology more generally. Different sections of the book address ecological and social significance of place, challenges of local sustainability, and local environmental politics. The book enhances the interplay of ideas between community sociologists and environmental sociologists, and stimulates thought that will contribute to the general field of sociology.

"Drawing on an innovative project exploring current mobility transition policies and practices in 14 countries around the world, including key institutions such as the European Union and the United Nations, this book provides a critique of current transitions, mobility and transport policies. The authors consider how our mobility futures have been imagined, what they will potentially look and feel like, what lives we might live in them and what choices we might have to make to get there."--

Frontmatter --Inhalt --Einleitung /Henkel, Anna / Lüdtke, Nico / Buschmann, Nikolaus / Hochmann, Lars --I Normativität oder Neutralität der Wissenschaft? - Reflexionen auf die Praxis nachhaltigkeitsorientierter Forschung --Klimaverantwortung und Energiekonflikte /Braun, Florian / Baatz, Christian --Macht und soziale Ungleichheit als vernachlässigte Dimensionen der Nachhaltigkeitsforschung /Wendt, Björn / Görgen, Benjamin --Forschen im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft und Aktivismus /Hoffmann, Jessica --Transdisziplinäre Nähe oder soziologische Distanz? /Herberg, Jeremias --Transdisziplinarität und Verantwortung /Lüdtke, Nico --Verantwortung kommt mit Nähe /Hochmann, Lars / Pfriem, Reinhard --Reflexion der Beiträge /Schulz, Reinhard --II. Gesellschaftliche Verantwortungsverhältnisse - Wirkungen von Nachhaltigkeit auf das Verhältnis von Struktur und Individuum --Partizipation: ein intrinsisches, dennoch relatives Gut nachhaltiger Entwicklung /Burger, Paul --»Eingebaute Verantwortungslosigkeit« Über Systembedingungen mangelnder Nachhaltigkeit /Schmieder, Falko --Ökologie der Subjekte /Block, Katharina --Zukunftsverantwortung /Buschmann, Nikolaus --Verantwortung als systemspezifische Reflexion ökologischer Gefährdung /Drews, Nikolai --Reflexive Responsibilisierung - feldtheoretisch ausgeleuchtet /Böschen, Stefan --Reflexion der Beiträge /Henkel, Anna / Lindemann, Gesa --III. Praktiken und Prozesse der Responsibilisierung - individuelle und gemeinschaftliche Verantwortungsattributionen --Von »Verantwortung« zu »doing Verantwortung« /Buschmann, Nikolaus / Sulmowski, Jędrzej --Nachhaltiger Konsum im Alltag - Verantwortungsübernahme zwischen Politisierung und Agency /Rückert-John, Jana / Jaeger-Erben, Melanie --Farmer, farmer, put away this DDT now /Philipp, Thorsten --Eigenverantwortung als neoliberale Regierungstechnologie und/oder emanzipatorische Selbst-Ermächtigung? /Sulmowski, Jędrzej --Geteilte Verantwortung als Bedingung für eine ökologisch nachhaltige, sozial gerechte, geschlechtergerechte Postwachstumsgesellschaft /Carl, Sabine --Geplanter Verschleiß oder Wegwerfkonsum? /Jaeger-Erben, Melanie / Hipp, Tamina --Moralisierung der Marktsphäre? - /Jonas, Michael --Reflexion der Beiträge /Alkemeyer, Thomas --IV. Standpunkte --Warum Konsumentenverantwortung allein die Umwelt nicht rettet /Grunwald --Überforderte Politik - warum nur individuelle Verantwortungsübernahme die Ökosphäre rettet /Paech, Niko --Autorinnen und Autoren

Overview -- Aims and Objectives of Environmental Impact Assessment -- Environmental Impact Assessment from the Point of View of a Developing Country -- Selected National Procedures -- The U.S. Model of Environmental Impact Assessment -- Environmental Impact Assessment in Canada -- Environmental Impact Assessment and the Planning Process -- Environmental Impact Assessment at the Planning Level: Two Systems -- Role of Environmental Impact Assessment in Plans and Policies -- EIA — The Relationship Between the Environmental Scientist and the Decision-Maker: A British Perspective -- EIA — The Relationship Between the Environmental Scientist and the Decision-Maker: A Canadian Perspective -- Methods -- to Methods for Environmental Impact Assessment -- EIA Manuals: General Objectives and the PADC Manual -- Methods for Environmental Impact Assessment: Theory and Application (Emphasis on Weighting-Scaling Checklists and Networks) -- A Method for Evaluating Environmental Impacts from Land Development Projects -- Social Impact Assessment: Methodological Overview -- The Theory and Application and Application of Modelling in Environmental Impact Assessment -- Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management: Some Current Applications -- Assessment of Specific Impacts -- The Environmental Impact Assessment of Highways -- Current Trends in Landscape Evaluation -- The Atmospheric Component of Environmental Impact Assessment -- Water Pollution Impacts -- Risk and Hazard Assessment -- Social Impact Assessment: The State of the Art -- Auditing -- Environmental Impact Assessment, Monitoring and Post-Development Audits -- Names and Addresses of Faculty -- Names and Addresses of Participants.