Introducing a unique 'timescape' perspective the author reexamines environmental problems and their cures and provides the potential for innovative new strategies to deal with environmental hazards.

In this book the author moves beyond the time of clocks and calendars in order to study time as embedded in social interactions, structures, practices and knowledge, in artefacts, in the body, and in the environment. Adam suggests ways not merely to deconstruct but to reconstruct both common-sense and social science understanding.

What is time? How has our relationship to time changed through history and how does time structure our social lives? In this lively introduction, Barbara Adam explores the changing ways in which time has been understood and how this knowledge is embedded in cultural practices. She takes the reader on a journey of discovery that extends from ancient mythology and classical philosophy to the contemporary social world of high-speed computer networks and globalized social relations. The book poses key questions about the nature of time, how it is conceptualized, what it means in practice and how the parameters set by nature have been transcended across the ages by the human quest for time know-how and control. It provides the reader with a good basis for understanding the role of time in contemporary social life. This book assumes no previous knowledge. Through its broad perspective and transdisciplinary approach it provides an accessible and wide-ranging introduction for students and teachers across the social sciences.

Time is at the forefront of contemporary scholarly inquiry across the natural sciences and the humanities. Yet the social sciences have remained substantially isolated from time-related concerns. This book argues that time should be a key part of social theory and focuses concern upon issues which have emerged as central to an understanding of today's social world. Through her analysis of time Barbara Adam shows that our contemporary social theories are firmly embedded in Newtonian science and classical dualistic philosophy. She exposes these classical frameworks of thought as inadequate to the task of conceptualizing our contemporary world of standardized time, computers, nuclear power and global telecommunications.

Future Matters concerns contemporary approaches to the future - how the future is known, created and minded. In a social world whose pace continues to accelerate the future becomes an increasingly difficult terrain. While the focus of social life is narrowing down to the present, the futures we create on a daily basis cast ever longer shadows. Future Matters addresses this paradox and its deep ethical implications. It locates contemporary approaches to the future in a wider sociological and historical framework of practices, traces differences and continuities, and shows how contemporary practices of futures-construction make taking responsibility for futures all but impossible.

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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In Zeiten der „Großen Transformation“ im „Anthropozän“ ist die Sehnsucht nach umfassenden wissenschaftlichen Antworten auf die sozial-ökologischen Krisen groß. In der Forschung liegt der Fokus stark auf der Beeinflussung zukünftiger Entwicklungen im Sinne des Konzeptes Nachhaltigkeit. Die Beiträge in diesem Sammelband nähern sich zentralen Themenfeldern dieses Konzeptes, Zeit/en – Natur/en – Räume – Inter- und Transdisziplinarität, teilweise in essayistischer, teilweise in wissenschaftlicher Form. Einen Fokus bildet dabei die von Adelheid Biesecker und Sabine Hofmeister theoretisch ausgearbeitete Kategorie (Re)Produktivität, die aus den unterschiedlichen theoretischen und thematischen Perspektiven zugleich weiterentwickelt wird.