Global environmental change : understanding the human dimensions /

1. Prologue -- 2. Global change and social science -- 3. Human causes of global change -- 4. Human consequences and responses -- 5. Problems of theory and method -- 6. Data needs -- 7. Human resources and organizational structures -- 8. A National research program on the human dimensions of global c...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Stern, Paul C., 1944-, Young, Oran R., Druckman, Daniel, 1939-
Μορφή: Licensed eBooks
Γλώσσα:Αγγλικά
Έκδοση: Washington, DC : National Academy Press, 1992.
Διαθέσιμο Online:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2527
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  • Copyright
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Summary
  • HUMAN CAUSES OF GLOBAL CHANGE
  • HUMAN CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL CHANGE
  • PROBLEMS OF THEORY AND METHOD
  • DATA NEEDS
  • HUMAN RESOURCES AND ORGANIZATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
  • RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A NATIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAM
  • 1 Prologue
  • THREE GLOBAL CHANGES
  • GREENHOUSE GASES AND CLIMATE CHANGE
  • CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS AND THE STRATOSPHERIC OZONE LAYER
  • AMAZONIAN DEFORESTATION AND THE LOSS OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
  • IMPLICATIONS
  • ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK
  • 2 Global Change and Social Science
  • GLOBAL CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS
  • TRENDS IN GLOBAL CHANGE
  • CHARACTERISTICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS
  • ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS AND HUMAN SYSTEMS
  • QUESTIONS FOR NATURAL SCIENCE, QUESTIONS FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • CONTRIBUTIONS FROM SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • KNOWLEDGE BASE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • SETTING PRIORITIES FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
  • CONCLUSION
  • 3 Human Causes of Global Change
  • IDENTIFYING THE MAJOR PROXIMATE CAUSES
  • A TREE-STRUCTURED ACCOUNTING SYSTEM
  • LIMITATIONS OF TREE-STRUCTURED ACCOUNTING
  • EXPLAINING THE PROXIMATE CAUSES: THREE CASES
  • THE AMERICAN REFRIGERATION INDUSTRY
  • COAL COMBUSTION IN CHINA
  • Causes of Present Coal Burning
  • Determinants of Future Coal Burning
  • FOREST CLEARING IN THE AMAZON BASIN
  • Causes of Deforestation
  • Alternative Futures for Amazonia
  • EXPLAINING THE PROXIMATE CAUSES: SOCIAL DRIVING FORCES
  • POPULATION GROWTH
  • Research Needs
  • ECONOMIC GROWTH
  • Research Needs
  • TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
  • Research Needs
  • POLITICAL-ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS
  • Research Needs
  • ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS
  • Research Needs
  • CONCLUSIONS
  • THE PROXIMATE CAUSES
  • SOCIAL DRIVING FORCES
  • IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH
  • NOTES
  • 4 Human Consequences and Responses
  • UNDERSTANDING HUMAN CONSEQUENCES.
  • SOME DIMENSIONS OF HUMAN RESPONSE
  • Responses to Experienced Versus Anticipated Change
  • Deliberate Responses Versus Actions with Incidental Effects
  • Coordinated Versus Uncoordinated Responses
  • Interventions at Different Points in the Process
  • THE PIVOTAL ROLE OF CONFLICT
  • A Current Controversy: To Mitigate or Not to Mitigate?
  • Implications of Conflict About Human Response
  • HUMAN RESPONSE: THREE CASES
  • INTERNATIONAL REGULATION OF OZONE-DEPLETING GASES
  • THE U.S. ENERGY CONSERVATION ACHIEVEMENTS OF 1973-1985
  • Preexisting Trends
  • Uncoordinated Responses to Recent Events
  • Policy Responses and Implementation
  • Implications for Future Climate Change
  • THE HUMAN CONSEQUENCES OF REGIONAL DROUGHT IN THE SAHEL
  • Different Droughts, Different Responses
  • Relationship of Policy to Indigenous Response Systems
  • SEVEN HUMAN SYSTEMS
  • INDIVIDUAL PERCEPTION, JUDGMENT, AND ACTION
  • Individual Judgment and Choice
  • Aggregated Individual Responses
  • Individuals as Social and Political Actors
  • MARKETS
  • SOCIOCULTURAL SYSTEMS
  • Indigenous Sociocultural Systems of Adaptation to Environment
  • Social Bonds and Responses to Environmental Change
  • ORGANIZED RESPONSES OUTSIDE GOVERNMENT
  • Communities
  • Social Movements
  • Corporations and Trade and Industry Associations
  • NATIONAL POLICY
  • National Differences in Environmental Policy
  • The Environmental Decision-Making Process
  • INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
  • GLOBAL SOCIAL CHANGE
  • CONCLUSIONS
  • THE KNOWLEDGE BASE FOR HUMAN RESPONSES IS INHERENTLY VALUE LADEN
  • HUMAN RESPONSES MUST BE ASSESSED AGAINST A CHANGING BASELINE
  • HUMAN RESPONSE CAN INVOLVE INTERVENTION ANYWHERE IN THE CYCLE OFCAUSATION
  • HUMAN RESPONSES AFFECT THE DRIVING FORCES OF GLOBAL CHANGE
  • NOTES
  • 5 Problems of Theory and Method
  • INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION.
  • WHY GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH NEEDS SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • WHY RESEARCH ON THE HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF GLOBAL CHANGE NEEDS NATURALSCIENCE
  • INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
  • PROBLEMS OF THEORY CONSTRUCTION
  • IDENTIFYING KEY RELATIONSHIPS AND INTERDEPENDENCIES
  • Research Needs
  • UNDERSTANDING NONLINEARITIES
  • Research Needs
  • UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL IRREVERSIBILITY
  • Research Needs
  • DEVELOPING APPROPRIATE ANALYSES FOR THE TIME SCALE OF DECADES TOCENTURIES
  • Research Needs
  • ANALYZING THE SPATIAL SCALES OF HUMAN ACTIVITY
  • Research Needs
  • DEALING WITH THE PROBLEM OF REFLEXIVITY
  • Research Needs
  • SELECTING APPROPRIATE METHODS
  • METHODS FOR IMPROVING UNDERSTANDING
  • METHODS FOR INFORMING CHOICE
  • Social Impact Assessment Methodology
  • Methods for Valuation
  • The Appropriate Uses of Research
  • CONCLUSIONS
  • INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION IS ESSENTIAL
  • NEW THEORETICAL TOOLS ARE REQUIRED
  • METHODOLOGICAL PLURALISM IS THE MOST APPROPRIATE STRATEGY
  • POST HOC ANALYSES ARE ESSENTIAL FOR EVALUATING HUMAN RESPONSES
  • 6 Data Needs
  • THREE HYPOTHETICAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
  • CAUSES OF GLOBAL WARMING: A CROSS-NATIONAL STUDY
  • Dependent variables
  • Independent variables
  • HUMAN CONSEQUENCES OF DEPLETION OF STRATOSPHERIC OZONE
  • ECONOMIC AND NONECONOMIC FORCES CAUSING LOSS OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
  • DATA AVAILABILITY
  • WHAT IS AVAILABLE
  • AN INFORMATION NETWORK
  • COSTS OF DATA
  • QUALITY AND INTERPRETABILITY OF DATA
  • PROBLEMS OF RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY
  • RESEARCH ON MEASUREMENT PROBLEMS
  • DATA COLLECTION NEEDS
  • ANALYTICAL DATA AND ACCOUNTING
  • SAMPLING NATIONS
  • INTENSIVE LOCAL DATA COLLECTION
  • 7 Human Resources And Organizational Structures
  • INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES
  • NATIONAL CENTERS FOR RESEARCH
  • TRAINING
  • INSTITUTIONALIZING COOPERATIVE RESEARCH.
  • ORGANIZATION BARRIERS TO RESEARCH IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
  • CONCLUSION
  • 8 A National Research Program On The Human Dimensions Of Global Change
  • OVERARCHING ISSUES
  • RESEARCH PRIORITIES
  • DATA NEEDS
  • HUMAN RESOURCES AND ORGANIZATION
  • FUNDING
  • References
  • Index.

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