International Handbook of Environmental Sociology, Second Edition

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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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. More than a decade has passed since the first edition of the Handbook was published to considerable acclaim, and environmental sociology has since become firmly established as a critical social science discipline. This second edition is a major interdisciplinary reference work comprising more than 25 original essays authored by leading scholars, many of whom are intimately involved in national, regional or global environmental policy processes. It marks some of the changes and continuities in the field of environmental sociology, and highlights today’s substantive concerns and theoretical debates. The Handbook is divided into three parts covering concepts and theories, critical issues and international perspectives, each with an introduction outlining the content of the constituent chapters and cross-referencing some of the more significant themes that link them together.Authoritative and comprehensive, this Handbook will prove to be essential reading for academics, researchers and students across the social sciences who are interested in the environment. It will also be enthusiastically received by sustainable development policy-makers and practitioners.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-04-30
Mått169 x 244 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Upplaga2
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781848440883

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Contents:IntroductionGraham WoodgatePART I: CONCEPTS AND THEORIES IN ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGYEditorial CommentaryGraham Woodgate1. The Maturation and Diversification of Environmental Sociology: From Constructivism and Realism to Agnosticism and PragmatismRiley E. Dunlap2. Social Institutions and Environmental ChangeFrederick H. Buttel3. From Environment Sociology to Global Ecosociology: The Dunlap–Buttel DebatesJean-Guy Vaillancourt4. Ecological Modernization as a Social Theory of Environmental ReformArthur P.J. Mol5. Ecological Modernization Theory: Theoretical and Empirical ChallengesRichard York, Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Dietz6. Postconstructivist Political EcologiesArturo Escobar7. Marx’s Ecology and its Historical SignificanceJohn Bellamy Foster8. The Transition Out of Carbon Dependence: The Crises of Environment and MarketsMichael R. Redclift9. Socio-ecological Agency: From ‘Human Exceptionalism’ to Coping with ‘Exceptional’ Global Environmental ChangeDavid Manuel-Navarrete and Christine N. Buzinde10. Ecological Debt: An Integrating Concept for Socio-Environmental ChangeIñaki Barcena Hinojal and Rosa Lago Aurrekoetxea11. The Emergence Model of Environment and SocietyJohn Hannigan12. Peering into the Abyss: Environment, Research and Absurdity in the ‘Age of Stupid’ Raymond L. BryantPART II: SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGYEditorial CommentaryGraham Woodgate13. Animals and UsTed Benton14. Science and the Environment in the Twenty-first CenturySteven Yearley15. New Challenges for Twenty-first Century Environmental Movements: Agricultural Biotechnology and NanotechnologyMaria Kousis16. Sustainable Consumption: Developments, Considerations and New DirectionsEmma D. Hinton and Michael K. Goodman17. Globalisation, Convergence and the Euro-Atlantic Development ModelWolfgang Sachs 18. Environmental Hazards and Human DisastersRaymond Murphy 19. Structural Obstacles to an Effective Post-2012 Global Climate Agreement: Why Social Structure Matters and How Addressing it Can Help Break the ImpasseBradley C. Parks and J. Timmons Roberts20. Environmental Sociology and International Forestry: Historical Overview and Future DirectionsBianca Ambrose-OjiPART III: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETYEditorial CommentaryGraham Woodgate21. The Role of Place in the Margins of SpaceDavid Manuel-Navarrete and Michael R. Redclift22. Society, Environment and Development in AfricaWilliam M. Adams23. Neoliberal Regimes of Environmental Governance: Climate Change, Biodiversity and Agriculture in AustraliaStewart Lockie 24. Environmental Reform in Modernizing ChinaArthur P.J. Mol25. Civic Engagement in Environmental Governance in Central and Eastern EuropeJoAnn Carmin26. A ‘Sustaining Conservation’ for Mexico?Nora HaennIndex