Environment, Politics and Society

Ram Alagan is Associate Professor of Geography at Alabama State University, USA. His research focuses on GIS, Civil Rights GIS, Environmental Impact Assessment, and Regional Studies.Seela Aladuwaka is Associate Professor of Geography at Alabama State University, USA. Her research interests are Regional Geography, Social Impact Assessment, and gender and development.

• Preface by Ram Alagan and Seela Aladuwaka;1. Polarizing Climate Politics in America; Dana R. Fisher, Anya M. Galli Robertson, Joseph Mccartney Waggle, Amanda M. Dewey, Ann H. Dubin and William Yagatich;2. Multilevel Governance and Minimum Flow: The Varying Conservation Outcomes of Water Conflict Resolution; Kate Pride Brown;3. Empowering the Disempowered Through Civil Rights Geographic Information Systems: The Case of Black Belt Region of Alabama; Ram Alagan, Robert White and Seela Aladuwaka;4. An Environmental Psychology Course and African-American Students’ Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors; Marcia Rossi5. School Gardens: Unpacking The Potential to Reduce Food Insecurity Among Alabama’s Children; Sharon Lindhorst Everhardt, Brenda Gill, Jonathan Cellon and Christopher Bradley;6. The Impact of China’s Changing Hukou on Women’s Rural Land Rights; Deborah Naybor;7. Plugging The Malaysian ‘Great Brain Drain’: Recognition of Dual Citizenship; Yew Wah Chow and Lorena Mathien;8. Scale & Political Ecology: A Conceptual Analysis of the Brazilian Samarco Disaster; Eric Spears;9. Green Transport: A Way Forward for Environmental Sustainability; Yashpal Malik, Nirupama Prakash and Ajay Kapoor;10. Feminist Elites in Democratic Jordan 1989-2016; Mohammed T. Bani Salameha and Emad Shdouh

This book is volume 25 of Research in Political Sociology. Contributors in geography, political science, and sociology analyze the intertwining of environment, politics, and society in North and South America, Asia, and the Middle East. Some topics considered are green transportation, school gardens in Alabama, feminist elites in democratic Jordan, African American students' attitudes in an environmental psychology course, and empowering the disempowered through civil rights geographic information systems. The book is intended for politicians, policymakers, scientists, and researchers.