Ecological Regimes: Towards a Conceptual Integration of Biophysical Environment into Social Theory

Baerlocher, Bianca; Burger, Paul

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-8730-0_5

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“…Sociology's Durkheimian legacy and its anthropocentric habit of 'explaining social facts with social facts' is challenged by the need to examine biological processes in order to fully understand environmental issues. Conversely, the biocentric roots of biology are challenged by the need to include mankind in order to fully understand ecosystem dynamics (Jollivet, 1992;Claeys -Mekdade, 2003;Jetzkowitz and Brunzel, 2005;Baerlocher and Burger, 2010). The difficulty for sociologists is thus to contribute to defining an interdisciplinary approach without losing critical perspective.…”

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Protected Areas and Overuse in the Context of Socio-Natural Changes: An Interdisciplinary French Case Study

Claeys¹,

Barthélémy²,

Tatoni³

et al. 2011

International Review of Social Research

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This article provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the notion of overuse in natural areas. Based on the case of the French Calanques massif (located along the Mediterranean coast between Marseilles and Cassis), sociology and biology combine their analyses to examine the social processes behind the increasingly widespread use of natural areas and the ecological consequences thereof. The data are comprised of interdisciplinary research based on eighty semi-structured interviews conducted on-site and 330 telephone survey questionnaires. We critically analyse of the notion of overuse and underscore the socio-economic, cultural and ideological weight it carries in the context of socio-natural change; this calls into question the relevance of the ancient nature/culture dichotomy. Drawing on theoretical tools from environmental sociology, this article also provides some perspectives for natural area managers.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%