The German Sociological Society's Section on Environmental Sociology and the Institute for the Analysis of Society and Policy at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main in cooperation with the Institute for Social-Ecological Research Frankfurt (ISOE) are pleased to announce the Third German Environmental Sociology Summit.

Science and technology play an increasingly crucial role in meeting the pressing challenges of eco-innovations on the way towards a sustainable society. However, what has been less discussed but is not least important is that our understanding of sustainable technology has to be extended beyond technological innovation measures. Furthermore, in an era of global environmental change new knowledge on social and cultural patterns for the viability of innovative and adaptive technologies becomes increasingly omnipresent in current debates on innovation and sustainability. 

The third German Environmental Sociology Summit will bring together these two streams of debate and examine new possibilities of achieving connections between environmental innovation systems and a sustainable society by moving beyond mere technology measures focusing on the understanding of everyday practices, new conceptions of innovation and sustainability or institutional settings dealing with unintended uncertainties and obstacles.

Topics of presentation

Topics of presentation could include, but should not be limited, to:

• New Systems of Innovation and Transition Strategies
• Sustainability and the Emergence of innovative Social Practices
• Real World Experimentation in Sustainable Technology
• Ecological Restoration and Design
• Innovation Theory and Sustainability Theory
• Climate Change and Adaptive Practices
• Innovation of Sustainable Consumption and Production Systems
• Governance of Sustainability
• Uncertainty and Ignorance´
• Sustainable Innovations and Diversity

Keynote Speakers

• Harvey Molotch (New York University, USA)  
• Michele Micheletti (Stockholm University, Sweden)  
• Fred Steward  (University of Westminster London, UK) 
• Thomas Dietz (Michigan State University, USA) 

Further information is available on the conference website.