Environmental Sociology Section
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Research within the environmental sociology section at Örebro University focuses environment-society relations. Environmental problems are something that is created by and must be solved by society. Accordingly, sociological perspectives and research are crucial to our understanding of how environmental problems result from societal structures and human actions and what possible ways there are to deal with them. Within the environmental sociology section at Örebro University we study issues related to transboundary environmental problems, such as climate change and biodiversity loss. The research covers areas such as the role of expertise in environmental governance, interaction between science, politics and the public in environmental regulation, environmental representation and communication, and social movements’ and individual engagement in societal transformation towards sustainability, as well as the conceptual development of environmental sociology.
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Active projects
- (Un)sustainable lifestyles: social (im)possibilities to consume less
- Challenges and opportunities of the sharing economy
- Conceptual development of environmental sociology
- Environmental expertise: conditions and challenges
- Green public ethics: exploring and elaborating value conflict handling of public administrators
- Learning to consume less: Can experiences during the C ovid-19 pandemic trigger lifestyle transformation?
- Making knowledge usable. Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary challenges for international environmental expertise
- Social (im)possibilities of the formation of ethical consumption: A comparative study of Sweden and Iran
- Sustainable practices in the minimalist family
- The logic of measuring, managing and governing ecosystems (EcoLogic)
- The roles of social science expertise for transformative change
Completed projects
- An animal without an animal within
- Becoming an expert. IPCCs and IPBESs socialization of young scholars as experts.
- Chemicals and Textiles: Management of environmental and health risks from products with complex product chains
- Collaborative production and social ontology - A study of mobilisations for economic democracy in the UK
- Conditions for Participatory Environmental Governance in a Regional Context: The Baltic and Adriatic Sea Regions
- Coping with uncertainty: regulation, decision making and learning in natural resource management
- Do citizens matter? The policy-science-citizen dynamics in governing transboundary environmental problems. The case of climate change, biodiversity loss and air pollution
- Environment, consumption and everyday life practices
- Environmental Representation
- From the sea to the land beyond. Cooperation and conflicts around whales and whaling within the global whaling debate.
- Risk governance, legitimacy and social learning in the handling of the forest fire in Västmanland
- Science role in international environmental governance. Climate change, biodiversity and air pollution
- Scientific ambiguity and its consequences
- The shaping of environmental expertise. Institutionalized expertise, boundary organizations and global environmental matters
