Theoretical Models of the Social-Ecological Transformation

The Great Transformation and the sustainability transformation require theoretical models of the future society and economy that can be found in theoretical analyses of modern capitalist society, political economy, critical theory of society, and interdisciplinary social and political ecology. The models include changes in nature-society interaction that become a knowledge source for sustainability governance. The bottleneck in all societal transformations in the history of human societies was the transformation of the societal energy systems. For the future, post-industrial society, the energy system will be one with combinations of regenerative energy sources, potentially with a dominant form of solar energy as the only practically unlimited energy source.