The international handbook of environmental sociology /
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| Imprint: | Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c1997. |
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| Description: | xv, 485 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2960676 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Graham Woodgate
- 1. The evolution of environmental sociology: a brief history and assessment of the American experience / Riley E. Dunlap
- 2. Social institutions and environmental change / Frederick H. Buttel
- 3. Sustainability and social construction / Michael Redclift and Graham Woodgate
- 4. 'Sustainable development' / Wolfgang Sachs
- 5. 'Sustainable rural development': from industrial agriculture to agroecology / Eduardo Sevilla-Guzman and Graham Woodgate
- 6. Environment and developing countries / Bernhard Glaeser
- 7. Society's metabolism: on the childhood and adolescence of a rising conceptual star / Marina Fischer-Kowalski
- 8. Ecological modernization: industrial transformations and environmental reform / Arthur P. J. Mol
- 9. Postmodernism and environmentalism: complementary or contradictory discourses? / Matthew Gandy
- 10. A coevolutionary environmental sociology / Richard B. Norgaard
- 11. Time and the environment / Barbara Adam
- 12. Beyond sociology: Marxism and the environment / Peter Dickens
- 13. Gender and the environment / Mary Mellor
- 14. Environmental consciousness and behaviour: the greening of lifestyles / Karl-Werner Brand
- 15. Risk, the environment and environmental knowledges / Alan Irwin
- 16. Science and the environment / Steven Yearley
- 17. Trust in models? The mediating and transformative role of computer models in environmental discourse / Simon Shackley
- 18. Revealing the invisible: sociology, energy and the environment / Elizabeth Shove
- 19. Industrial metabolism, economic growth and institutional change / J. B. Opschoor
- 20. Politics and the environment in the UK and beyond / Tim S. Gray
- 21. The evolution of the relationship between ecologism and nationalism / Inaki Barcena, Pedro Ibarra and Marion Zubiaga
- 22. Environmental Movements and green parties in western and eastern Europe / Christopher A. Rootes
- 23. Environment in eastern Europe / Bernd Baumgartl
- 24. Between commitment and implementation: tensions in sustainable development policy of the European Union / Susan Baker
- 25. Environment and society in Latin America / Tim Allmark
- 26. Biosphere, history and conjuncture in the analysis of the Amazon problem / Jose Augusto Padua
- 27. Environment and society in the Middle East: conflicts over water / Steve Lonergan
- 28. Irrigation in India: equity and sustainability / Satyajit Singh
- 29. Surging environmentalism in Japan: a sociological perspective / Hisayoshi Mitsuda
- 30. Agricultural development policy and the environment in Ghana / Mahamudu B. Seidu
- 31. Rural sustainability in Britain: the social bases of sustainability / Terry Marsden, Jonathan Murdoch and Simone Abram.