Re-engaging with Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era
An Institutional Approach
Andrew J Hoffman author P Devereaux Jennings author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:30th Aug '18
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Applies organization theory to the current period of human impact on climate change, chemical waste, habitat destruction, and despeciation.
Applies organization theory to the challenge of the Anthropocene era, a period of human impact on climate change, chemical waste, habitat destruction, and despeciation. Uses institutional theory to help analysts understand the framing of scientific facts, the counter-mobilization of skeptics, and the creation of archetypes as new social orders.Re-engaging with Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era applies organization theory to a grand challenge: our entry into the Anthropocene era, a period marked not only by human impact on climate change, but on chemical waste, habitat destruction, and despeciation. It focuses on institutional theory, modified by political readings of organizations, as one approach that can help us navigate a new course. Besides offering mechanisms, such as institutional entrepreneurship, social movements, and policy shifts, the institutional-political variant developed here helps analysts understand the framing of scientific facts, the counter-mobilization of skeptics, and the creation of archetypes as new social orders.
ISBN: 9781108727693
Dimensions: 230mm x 153mm x 7mm
Weight: 1700g
75 pages