Social ecology

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Social ecology is a concept that is mainly used within socio-ecological research .

Taking into account the critical theory , environmental technology and science criticism and feminism can be (according to Becker and Jahn ) social and scientific findings guided by theory related to each other. In this way, social ecology can be established as a science of the social relationships to nature . It is a theoretically and methodologically particularly demanding attempt at socio-ecological research, which is primarily known in German-speaking countries and is also used in geography as an integration concept.

Origin context

By transferring ideas and concepts from biological ecology to the social area, various research approaches have emerged that always deal with the mutual relationships between people and their social, biological and physical environments. In the 1920s, a “ social ecology ” was developed in the USA in the form of a spatial sociology , which still plays an important role in urban research and human ecology today. A criticism of the unreflective transfer of biological ideas to society and as a scientific response to the ecological crisis arose in Germany in the 1980s - initially outside the universities and across the academic canon of subjects - interdisciplinary and problem-oriented socio-ecological research .

See also

literature

  • Egon Becker , Thomas Jahn (Ed.): Social Ecology. Basic features of a science of the social relations of nature . Campus, Frankfurt a. M. 2006, ISBN 3-593-37993-7 .
  • Egon Becker: There is no society without nature. Contributions to the development of a social ecology. Campus, Frankfurt a. M. 2016, ISBN 978-3-593-50555-8
  • Marina Fischer-Kowalski u. a. (Ed.): Social metabolism and colonization of nature. An attempt in social ecology . Gordon & Breach, Amsterdam 1997, ISBN 90-5708-018-4 .
  • Christoph Görg : Social Relationships with Nature . Westphalian steam boat (entrances: vol. 7), Münster 1999, ISBN 3-89691-693-9 .
  • Johanna Kramm, Melanie Pichler, Anke Schaffartzik, Martin Zimmermann (eds.): Social Ecology: State of the Art and Future Prospects . Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Sustainability. MDPI, Basel etc. 2017

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Geographical Working Group Development Theories Social Ecology in Geographical Development Research: Theory, Concepts, Empirical Application. University of Bonn. May 30th-1st June 2008. University of Bonn. Cf. also L. Mönter The integrative treatment of phenomena of global change - a redeemable promise of geographic teaching? In: H. Fassmann / T. Glade, (Ed.): Geography for a changing world: 57th German Geographers' Day 2009 in Vienna Göttingen 2012, pp. 333–357