Viewing the World Ecologically

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- 1 A New Worldview -- Mental Lenses -- Industrial and Post-Industrial Worldviews -- Research Focus -- Research Design -- 2 Theoretical Framework -- Worldviews and Their Components -- Social Paradigms -- Ideologies -- Paradigm Change Theories -- Paradigm Change Models -- Notes -- 3 The Technological Social Paradigm -- Previous Conceptualizations -- Technological Beliefs -- Technological Values -- Technological Paradigm -- Summary -- Notes -- 4 The Ecological Social Paradigm -- Previous Conceptualizations -- Ecological Beliefs -- Ecological Values -- Ecological Paradigm -- Summary -- Notes -- 5 Scope of the Ecological Social Paradigm -- The Argument -- Values and the Ecological Social Paradigm -- Perceived Value and Policy Preference Clusters -- Clusters and the Ecological Paradigm -- Summary -- 6 Explaining the Paradigm Change -- Modes of Explanation -- Internal Paradigm Inconsistencies -- External Paradigm Incongruencies -- Summary -- 7 Models of Paradigm Change -- Analytical Models -- The Paradigm Shift Model -- The Paradigm Dialectic Model -- Summary -- 8 Theoretical Arguments -- Emergence of an Ecological Social Paradigm -- Usefulness of the Paradigm Concept -- Importance of Cultural Beliefs -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- References -- About the Authors -- Index.