Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/306507 
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2024
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[Journal:] economic sociology. perspectives and conversations [ISSN:] 1871-3351 [Volume:] 26 [Issue:] 1 [Year:] 2024 [Pages:] 24-29
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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG), Cologne
Abstract: 
Ecological issues are often seen as only one of the many "problems" societies face today, even though they go deep and affect everything - from physical disruption and displacement to perhaps more subtle long-term changes in temperature, flora, and fauna that alter the face of the planet and the norms of everyday life. As a result of this view, the study of the environment has been siloed into the realm of "environmental sciences" with a few "environmental fill-in-the-social-science-blank" subfields scattered about. This is not to say that only "environmental" problems are important, but that across all disciplines and subfields, greater attention needs to be paid to these issues - especially to the ways in which environmental problems intersect with other social problems, including those of race, gender, and class.
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