Volume 1, Issue 3

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Special Issue: Environmental Values and Environmental Change
Guest Editors: Laura NISTOR and Filip ALEXANDRESCU

Four Decades of Environmental Sociology (pages 1-10)
Laura NISTOR and Filip ALEXANDRESCU
Article first published online: 11 October 2011
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No Measure without Concept. A Critical Review on the Conceptualization and Measurement of Environmental Concern (pages 11-31)
André SCHAFFRIN
Article first published online: 11 October 2011
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The Struggle in Defense of Baikal: The Shift of Values and Disposition of Forces (pages 33-51)
Oleg YANITSKY
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Among ‘Bananas’ and ‘Backyards’: A Statistical Analysis of the Effect of Risk and Scientific Literacy on the Attitude towards a Waste Co-incinerator in Italy (pages 53-72)
Giuseppe TIPALDO
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Protected Areas and Overuse in the Context of Socio-Natural Changes: An Interdisciplinary French Case Study (pages 73-92)
Cécilia CLAEYS, Carole BARTHELEMY, Thierry TATONI and Patrick BONHOMME
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‘Creating (Local) Space for Change’: Strengthening Agroecological Farming and Fair Trade Practices in the State of Jalisco, Western Mexico (pages 93-113)
Peter R. W. GERRITSEN
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Environmental Attitudes and Household Electricity Use among Budapest Residents (pages 115-131)
Andrea DÚLL and Béla JANKY
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Knowledge on Climate Change and Energy Saving Renovations by Apartment Owners in Bulgaria and Latvia. A Qualitative Study (pages 133-154)
Françoise BARTIAUX, Véronique GOSSELAIN, Dobrina VASSILEVA, Grozdanka STAMOVA, Līga OZOLINA and Evita GARA
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Debate: The Response of the Hermeneutic Social Sciences to a ‘Post Carbon World’

The Response of the Hermeneutic Social Sciences to a ‘Post Carbon World’ (pages 155-166)
Michael REDCLIFT
Article first published online: 11 October 2011
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Reactions

The Challenge of Anthropogenic Climate Change for the Social Sciences (pages 167-181)
Raymond MURPHY
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Welcome Frustrations with the Climate. Comment on Redclift (pages 183-187)
Matthias GROSS
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Sociological Tasks in View of the Transition to Post-carbon Societies. Also a Comment to Michael Redclift (pages 189-195)
Fritz REUSSWIG
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Forum: Discussing a vague concept. Comments on Jean-Claude Kaufmann’s ‘Identity and the New Nationalist Pronouncements’ (IRSR Volume 1, Issue 2, pp. 1-13) by Andrea Spreafico, Richard Handler and Doris Bühler-Niederberger and rejoinder by Jean-Claude Kaufmann (pages 197-207)
Comment, Andrea SPREAFICO
Comment, Richard HANDLER
Comment, Identity – Danger or Social Resource? Doris BUHLER-NIEDERBERGER
Rejoinder: Discussing a vague concept Jean-Claude KAUFMANN
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