Carlo C. Jaeger - Böcker

This book discusses how citizens can participate more effectively in sustainability science and environmental policy debates. It discusses designs for participatory procedures, and experiences of their application to issues of global change. While the focus is on citizen participation, the involvement of specific stakeholders - including water managers and venture capitalists - is also addressed. The book describes how focus group methods were combined with the interactive use of computer models into new forms of participation, tested with six hundred citizens. The results are discussed in relation to other important topics, including greenhouse gas and water management. By combining this with an examination of issues of interactive governance and developing country participation, the book provides state-of-the-art, practical insights for students, researchers and policy makers alike.

This book discusses how citizens can participate more effectively in sustainability science and environmental policy debates. It discusses designs for participatory procedures, and experiences of their application to issues of global change. While the focus is on citizen participation, the involvement of specific stakeholders - including water managers and venture capitalists - is also addressed. The book describes how focus group methods were combined with the interactive use of computer models into new forms of participation, tested with six hundred citizens. The results are discussed in relation to other important topics, including greenhouse gas and water management. By combining this with an examination of issues of interactive governance and developing country participation, the book provides state-of-the-art, practical insights for students, researchers and policy makers alike.

In the early 21st century, environmental risks such as climate change, biodiversity loss, resource scarcity, large-scale migrations, and conflicts over critical resources have become our lived reality in a world where nearly 8 billion people struggle to thrive. These crises have proven impossible to address without fundamental transformations of our economic institutions—exactly as predicted in this groundbreaking work. First published in 1994, Taming the Dragon offers a careful investigation of the processes that have led to global environmental change. It is based on a new and original analysis of economic mechanisms as the result of complex processes of cultural evolution. This analysis enables the author to develop both a short-term strategy and a long-term perspective for managing the global environmental crisis. Demonstrating how and why world economic and environmental policies are dangerously out of sync with each other, Jaeger arrives at an understanding of human reality that stresses the importance of interpersonal relations both in private life and within the world economic system itself.

In the early 21st century, environmental risks such as climate change, biodiversity loss, resource scarcity, large-scale migrations, and conflicts over critical resources have become our lived reality in a world where nearly 8 billion people struggle to thrive. These crises have proven impossible to address without fundamental transformations of our economic institutions—exactly as predicted in this groundbreaking work. First published in 1994, Taming the Dragon offers a careful investigation of the processes that have led to global environmental change. It is based on a new and original analysis of economic mechanisms as the result of complex processes of cultural evolution. This analysis enables the author to develop both a short-term strategy and a long-term perspective for managing the global environmental crisis. Demonstrating how and why world economic and environmental policies are dangerously out of sync with each other, Jaeger arrives at an understanding of human reality that stresses the importance of interpersonal relations both in private life and within the world economic system itself.

Risk as we now know it is a wholly new phenomenon, the by-product of our ever more complex and powerful technologies. In business, policy making, and in everyday life, it demands a new way of looking at technological and environmental uncertainty.In this definitive volume, four of the world's leading risk researchers present a fundamental critique of the prevailing approaches to understanding and managing risk - the 'rational actor paradigm'. They show how risk studies must incorporate the competing interests, values, and rationalities of those involved and find a balance of trust and acceptable risk. Their work points to a comprehensive and significant new theory of risk and uncertainty and of the decision making process they require. The implications for social, political, and environmental theory and practice are enormous.Winner of the 2000-2002 Outstanding Publication Award of the Section on Environment and Technology of the American Sociological Association

Das Buch geht der Frage nach, ob es in den n{chsten Jahr- zehnten in den urbanen Regionen zu einer Versch{rfung der gegenw{rtigen sozialen, |kologischen und politischen Fronten kommen wird, oder ob die postindustrielle Gesellschaft nicht neue Antworten auf die anstehenden Fragen finden kann. Dazu werden kulturhistorische, soziologische und |konomische Pro- zesse der Stadtdynamik theoretisch diskutiert und exempla- risch anhand der j}ngeren Entwicklung der Stadt Z}rich empi- risch er|rtert. Vor diesem Hintergrund kommen schlie~lich Freiheitgrade der Entwicklung zur Sprache, welche insbeson- dere durch den wirtschaftlichen Strukturwandel sowie neuere soziale Bewegungen erm|glicht werden. Eine Besonderheit des Buches ist, da~ es allgemeine theoretische ]berlegungen zur Stadtentwicklung, insbesondere von Finanzmetropolen, mit empirischen Daten kombiniert. Ein im internationalen Vergleich einmaliger Datensatz }ber die Entwicklung des Fl{chenverbrauchs verschiedener Nutzungen in der Stadt Z}rich erm|glichte eine innovative Behandlung der Bodenrente im st{dtischen Kontext.Das Buch hat das Ziel, einerseits die moderne Stadt alseine auf der Industriegesellschaft basierende Konzeption sichtbar werdenzu lassen, andererseits vor dem Hintergrund des gegenw{rtigen Umbaus der Industriegesellschaft Optionen der Siedlungs- und Stadtentwicklung zu umrei~en. Das Buch geht davon aus, da~ die Konzeption der modernen Stadtsich }berlebt hat. Dies hat viel mit der gegenw{rtigen Transformation der Industriegesellschaft in eine nachindustrielle zu tun. Die damit verbundenensozialen, |kologischen und |konomischen Probleme werden im Buch umfasssend theoretisch er|rtert und anhand des Finanzplatzes Z}richempirisch dokumentiert.

This book provides the reader with a state-of-the-art view of research on sustainable development. Its emphasis lies on the transformative dimension of this research: sustainable development can only be realized through a far-reaching transformation of the situation humankind finds itself in at the beginning of the third millennium. The contributions are written by leading world experts in the conceptualisation and actual practice of sustainable development. The book provides a timely overview of ideas and methods as well as a variety of original learning examples on the most innovative approaches on sustainability science.