The International Handbook of Environmental Sociology.
Publisher: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, 2010Edition: 2nd edDescription: xi, 434 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781848440883
- 184844088X
- GE195 .I57 2010
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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BOOK | NCAR Library Foothills Lab | GE195 .I57 2010 | 1 | Available | 50583020003657 |
Previous edition: 1997.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART I: 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 / Inaki 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.
PART II: 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.
PART III: 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.
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.