Sociology, Science and Sustainability
Developing Relationships in Scotland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2642218 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kirsty L Blackstock (Socio-Economics Research Programme, Macaulay Institute; Department of Law, University of Dundee; Department of Geography, University of Dundee), Kirsty Blackstock (0000-0002-0429-0215, University of Dundee, corresponding author), Elizabeth A Kirk (0000-0002-2195-7608, Socio-Economics Research Programme, Macaulay Institute; Department of Law, University of Dundee; Department of Geography, University of Dundee), Alison D Reeves (Socio-Economics Research Programme, Macaulay Institute; Department of Law, University of Dundee; Department of Geography, University of Dundee) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 125-140 |
| Publication date | 2005-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Research Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5153/sro.1097 |
| OpenAlex | W2146674982 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 37 |
This paper considers the application of the sociological imagination during the analysis of data collected during an ethnographic study of an environmental regulator, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA). SEPA is tasked with implementing the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) in Scotland, which will radically alter the regulation of water use. Applying a sociological imagination allowed the researcher to advocate for a more interdisciplinary and equitable understanding of sustainable water use when feeding back initial research results at the end of the data collection period. The researchers introduced socialised definitions of the environment, which linked social justice and ecological concerns. These insights provided a challenge to the traditional bio-physical science focus of the organisational participants, for whom sustainability is a relatively new addition to their duties. The paper concludes by discussing the importance of developing these interdisciplinary relationships in the future
Directive · Economic Justice · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Environmental sociology · Ethnography · Political science · Social science · Sociological research · Sociology · Sustainability · Water Framework Directive · Community Health and Development · Law · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Ecology
Critical Issues in Tourism
Science in Context
Risk Society
Scotland--the brand
Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy
What Is a Good Public Participation Process? Five Perspectives from the Public
Entering the Century of the Environment
Sustainability Science
Representing People, Representing Nature, Representing the World
Experiencing Fieldwork
Thinking Sociologically
Production and Consumption in Organizational Knowledge
The Invention Of Tradition
Social Theory And The Global Environment
Society and Culture
Context and Method in Qualitative Research
Participatory approaches to environmental policy-making
Ecology and democratic governance
The Sociological Imagination
The lure of the local
Risk society
The myth of the best argument
Obtrusiveness as Strategy in Ethnographic Research
Critical Issues in Tourism
Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability in Social-ecological Systems
Consumer Citizens and the Cities for Climate Protection Campaign
The Internalization of Autonomous Nature into Society
Power, Subjectivity and British Industrial and Organisational Sociology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2016 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |