Daniel Stokols

Broschiertes Buch

Social Ecology in the Digital Age

Solving Complex Problems in a Globalized World

Beschreibung

Social Ecology in the Digital Age: Solving Complex Problems in a Globalized World provides a comprehensive overview of social ecological theory, research, and practice. Written by renowned expert Daniel Stokols, the book distills key principles from diverse strands of ecological science, offering a robust framework for transdisciplinary research and societal problem-solving. The existential challenges of the 21st Century - global climate change and climate-change denial, environmental pollution, biodiversity loss, food insecurity, disease pandemics, inter-ethnic violence and the threat of nuclear war, cybercrime, the Digital Divide, and extreme poverty and income inequality confronting billions each day - cannot be understood and managed adequately from narrow disciplinary or political perspectives.

Social Ecology in the Digital Age is grounded in scientific research but written in a personal and informal style from the vantage point of a former student, current teacher and scholar who has contributed over four decades to the field of social ecology. The book will be of interest to scholars, students, educators, government leaders and community practitioners working in several fields including social and human ecology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, criminology, law, education, biology, medicine, public health, earth system and sustainability science, geography, environmental design, urban planning, informatics, public policy and global governance.

Winner of the 2018 Gerald L. Young Book Award from The Society for Human Ecology"Exemplifying the highest standards of scholarly work in the field of human ecology." https://societyforhumanecology.org/human-ecology-homepage/awards/gerald-l-young-book-award-in-human-ecology/

Autor

Daniel Stokols is widely known for his contributions to the fields of social ecology, environmental and ecological psychology, public health, and transdisciplinary team science. He is Chancellor's Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine and served as founding dean of UCI's School of Social Ecology. Stokols also has served as consultant to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, the W.M. Keck and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations, and several community organizations. He is co-author of Behavior, Health, and Environmental Stress (1986), the National Academy of Sciences report on Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science (2015), editor of Perspectives on Environment and Behavior (1977), and co-editor of the Handbook of Environmental Psychology (1987), Environmental Simulation (1993) and Promoting Human Wellness (2002).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Press / Elsevier Science & Technology
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: C2014-0-04300-6
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9780128141885
• ISBN-10: 0128141883
• Artikelnr.: 48318910

Rezensionen

"With his astounding background, Daniel Stokols is uniquely qualified to author Social Ecology in the Digital Age, a sweeping, comprehensive work that invites readers to explore the history, core principles, and many applications of social ecology. ...Social Ecology in the Digital Age is an invaluable contribution and a remarkable achievement. ...social Ecology in the Digital Age is extraordinary in its scope and depth. It brings together a wide-ranging set of ideas to argue for the power and promise of social ecology. In doing so, Stokols has crafted a meticulously constructed and comprehensive work that is likely to become requisite reading for serious scholars in a variety of fields related to social ecology."--Frontiers in

Psychology

"Social Ecology in the Digital Age is an invaluable contribution and a remarkable achievement . extraordinary in its scope and depth. It brings together a wide-ranging set of ideas to argue for the power and promise of social ecology. In doing so, Stokols has crafted a meticulously constructed and comprehensive work that is likely to become requisite reading for serious scholars in a variety of ?elds related to social ecology. Hopefully broader audiences of professionals, policy-makers, and everyday citizens interested in social change will also turn to this font of insights because of its contribution in addressing many of the existential challenges of the twenty-?rst century. -- Rachel Kaplan and Jason Duvall, Frontiers in Psychology

"Throughout the book and with the help of several case studies, Stokols illustrates impressively the specific problem structure of environmental problems. A particular strength of the book is the detailed and critical discussion of the role of digitalisation. Stokols takes a look at the effects of cyberspace on psychological, social, health and sustainability outcomes and shows how digital technologies transform physical and social organisation from microlevel behaviour settings to larger societal units. In sum, Social Ecology in the Digital Age is a great read and highly recommended to students, scholars and practitioners interested in sustainable transformations. -Diana Hummel, LSE Review of Books

"From a first-person narrative, the book is written in a very engaging and motivating way, and provides a lot of biographical experiences and personal insights, detailing Stokols own four-decade academic journey. It is therefore useful both for experts of sustainability science and politics, but also for students who are at the beginning of their academic careers and are interested in issues such as sustainable urban planning, sustainable consumption, environmental justice and theoretical concepts of society-nature interactions. ...Throughout the book and with the help of several case studies, Stokols illustrates impressively the specific problem structure of environmental problems. ...A particular strength of the book is the detailed and critical discussion of the role of digitalisation. " --LSE Business Review

"This is a truly intelligent and important book. It calls for the need to exit our standard disciplinary categories if we are to address major challenges of our world in effective ways. The knowledge silos we have constructed are becoming an obstacle. We need to cut across them. Stokols use of social ecology as enabled and disciplined by digitization is brilliant and useful!" --Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Expulsions