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The international handbook of environmental sociology / edited by Michael R. Redclift, Graham Woodgate.

Contributor(s): Cheltenham, UK ; Edward Elgar, �2010Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, �2010Edition: 2nd edDescription: xi, 434 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781848440883
  • 184844088X
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GE195 .I57 2010
Contents:
Concepts and theories in environmental sociology. Introduction ; Editorial Commentary / Graham Woodgate -- Maturation and Diversification of Environmental Sociology : From Constructivism and Realism to Agnosticism and Pragmatism / Riley E. Dunlap -- Social Institutions and Environmental Change / Frederick H. Buttel -- From Environment Sociology to Global Ecosociology : The Dunlap-Buttel Debates / Jean-Guy Vaillancourt -- Ecological Modernization as a Social Theory of Environmental Reform / Arthur P.J. Mol -- Ecological Modernization Theory : Theoretical and Empirical Challenges / Richard York, Eugene A. Rosa, Thomas Dietz -- Postconstructivist Political Ecologies / Arturo Escobar -- Marx's Ecology and its Historical Significance / John Bellamy Foster -- Transition Out of Carbon Dependence: The Crises of Environment and Markets / Michael R. Redclift -- Socio-ecological Agency : From 'Human Exceptionalism' to Coping with 'Exceptional' Global Environmental Change / David Manuel-Navarrete, Christine N. Buzinde -- Ecological Debt : An Integrating Concept for Socio-Environmental Change / I�naki Barcena Hinoja, d Rosa Lago Aurrekoetxea -- Emergence Model of Environment and Society / John Hannigan -- Peering into the Abyss : Environment, Research and Absurdity in the 'Age of Stupid' / Raymond L. Bryant.
Substantive issues for environmental sociology. Editorial Commentary / Graham Woodgate -- Animals and Us / Ted Benton -- Science and the Environment in the Twenty first Century / Steven Yearley -- New Challenges for Twenty first Century Environmental Movements : Agricultural Biotechnology and Nanotechnology / Maria Kousis -- Sustainable Consumption : Developments, Considerations and New Directions / Emma D. Hinton, Michael K. Goodman -- Globalisation, Convergence and the Euro Atlantic Development Model / Wolfgang Sachs -- Environmental Hazards and Human Disasters / Raymond Murphy -- Structural Obstacles to an Effective Post 2012 Global Climate Agreement : Why Social Structure Matters and How Addressing it Can Help Break the Impasse / Bradley C. Parks, J. Timmons Roberts -- Environmental Sociology and International Forestry : Historical Overview and Future Directions / Bianca Ambrose-Oji.
International perspectives on environment and society. Editorial Commentary / Graham Woodgate -- Role of Place in the Margins of Space / David Manuel-Navarrete, Michael R. Redclift -- Society, Environment and Development in Africa / William M. Adams -- Neoliberal Regimes of Environmental Governance : Climate Change, Biodiversity and Agriculture in Australia / Stewart Lockie -- Environmental Reform in Modernizing China / Arthur P.J. Mol -- Civic Engagement in Environmental Governance in Central and Eastern Europe / JoAnn Carmin -- 'Sustaining Conservation' for Mexico? / Nora Haenn.
Summary: This thoroughly revised Handbook provides an assessment of the scope and content of environmental sociology, and sets out the intellectual and practical challenges posed by the urgent need for policy and action to address accelerating environmental change.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab GE195 .I57 2010 1 Available 50583020003657
Total holds: 0

Previous edition: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Concepts and theories in environmental sociology. Introduction ; Editorial Commentary / Graham Woodgate -- Maturation and Diversification of Environmental Sociology : From Constructivism and Realism to Agnosticism and Pragmatism / Riley E. Dunlap -- Social Institutions and Environmental Change / Frederick H. Buttel -- From Environment Sociology to Global Ecosociology : The Dunlap-Buttel Debates / Jean-Guy Vaillancourt -- Ecological Modernization as a Social Theory of Environmental Reform / Arthur P.J. Mol -- Ecological Modernization Theory : Theoretical and Empirical Challenges / Richard York, Eugene A. Rosa, Thomas Dietz -- Postconstructivist Political Ecologies / Arturo Escobar -- Marx's Ecology and its Historical Significance / John Bellamy Foster -- Transition Out of Carbon Dependence: The Crises of Environment and Markets / Michael R. Redclift -- Socio-ecological Agency : From 'Human Exceptionalism' to Coping with 'Exceptional' Global Environmental Change / David Manuel-Navarrete, Christine N. Buzinde -- Ecological Debt : An Integrating Concept for Socio-Environmental Change / I�naki Barcena Hinoja, d Rosa Lago Aurrekoetxea -- Emergence Model of Environment and Society / John Hannigan -- Peering into the Abyss : Environment, Research and Absurdity in the 'Age of Stupid' / Raymond L. Bryant.

Substantive issues for environmental sociology. Editorial Commentary / Graham Woodgate -- Animals and Us / Ted Benton -- Science and the Environment in the Twenty first Century / Steven Yearley -- New Challenges for Twenty first Century Environmental Movements : Agricultural Biotechnology and Nanotechnology / Maria Kousis -- Sustainable Consumption : Developments, Considerations and New Directions / Emma D. Hinton, Michael K. Goodman -- Globalisation, Convergence and the Euro Atlantic Development Model / Wolfgang Sachs -- Environmental Hazards and Human Disasters / Raymond Murphy -- Structural Obstacles to an Effective Post 2012 Global Climate Agreement : Why Social Structure Matters and How Addressing it Can Help Break the Impasse / Bradley C. Parks, J. Timmons Roberts -- Environmental Sociology and International Forestry : Historical Overview and Future Directions / Bianca Ambrose-Oji.

International perspectives on environment and society. Editorial Commentary / Graham Woodgate -- Role of Place in the Margins of Space / David Manuel-Navarrete, Michael R. Redclift -- Society, Environment and Development in Africa / William M. Adams -- Neoliberal Regimes of Environmental Governance : Climate Change, Biodiversity and Agriculture in Australia / Stewart Lockie -- Environmental Reform in Modernizing China / Arthur P.J. Mol -- Civic Engagement in Environmental Governance in Central and Eastern Europe / JoAnn Carmin -- 'Sustaining Conservation' for Mexico? / Nora Haenn.

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