This anthology of studies by the eminent geographer and climate scientist Eduard Bruckner (1862-1927) on anthropogenic climate change and the social, political and economic impact of climate variations on societies…

Shows how new technologies and society’s response to them have created a ‘knowledge politics’ with wide-ranging ramifactions.

Shows how new technologies and society’s response to them have created a ‘knowledge politics’ with wide-ranging ramifactions.

Original concepts, such as his groundbreaking studies on the Knowledge Society, are introduced as the volume traces Stehr’s pursuit of social scientific research as a source of practical knowledge for…

Talk of knowledge is ubiquitous in the modern world. Whether we talk of know-how, innovation or education, knowledge is always involved. But despite its prominence, knowledge often remains nebulous. This…

The original essays collected here under the general title of The Knowledge Society were first commissioned for a conference held in the late fall of 1984 at the Technische Hochschule…

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Wissen und Information, Note: eins, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (Insitut fur Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Formen des Wissens, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die moderne Gesellschaft ist…

Climate has for a long time been a taken-for-granted background against which social, political and economic interactions have taken place. But this taken-for-granted background is cleaving. It is becoming hard…