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Social–Ecological Theory and Environmental Governance

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To clarify the use of knowledge from an interdisciplinary theory of society–nature interaction for the practices and the improvement of global environmental governance it is necessary to analyse the relations between theoretical empirical, and practical or applied knowledge in and their use in environmental policy and governance. An interdisciplinary theory is specified in this chapter and the discourse of nature–society interaction is reviewed, including the distinction between nature and society in theoretical terms. The theoretical knowledge about modern society and its relations with nature should help to reduce the predominance of normative reasoning in the justification of global environmental governance and in the discussion of possibilities and pathways of a socio–ecological transformation.

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Bruckmeier, K. (2019). Social–Ecological Theory and Environmental Governance. In: Global Environmental Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98110-9_7

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