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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar, [1997]Copyright date: ©1997Description: xv, 485 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1840642432
  • 9781840642438
  • 185898405X
  • 9781858984056
Other title:
  • Environmental sociology [Parallel title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.28
LOC classification:
  • GE195. I57 1997
Contents:
List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- 1. The evolution of environmental sociology: a brief history and assessment of the American experience -- 2. Social institutions and environmental change -- 3. Sustainability and social construction -- 4. 'Sustainable development' -- 5. 'Sustainable rural development': from industrial agriculture to agroecology -- 6. Environment and developing countries -- 7. Society's metabolism: on the childhood and adolescence of a rising conceptual star -- 8. Ecological modernization: industrial transformations and environmental reform -- 9. Postmodernism and environmentalism: complementary or contradictory discourses? -- 10. A coevolutionary environmental sociology -- 11. Time and the environment -- 12. Beyond sociology: Marxism and the environment -- 13. Gender and the environment -- 14. Environmental consciousness and behaviour: the greening of lifestyles -- 15. Risk, the environment and environmental knowledges -- 16. Science and the environment -- 17. Trust in models? The mediating and transformative role of computer models in environmental discourse -- 18. Revealing the invisible: sociology, energy and the environment -- 19. Industrial metabolism, economic growth and institutional change -- 20. Politics and the environment in the UK and beyond -- 21. The evolution of the relationship between ecologism and nationalism -- 22. Environmental Movements and green parties in western and eastern Europe -- 23. Environment in eastern Europe -- 24. Between commitment and implementation: tensions in sustainable development policy of the European Union -- 25. Environment and society in Latin America -- 26. Biosphere, history and conjuncture in the analysis of the Amazon problem -- 27. Environment and society in the Middle East: conflicts over water -- 28. Irrigation in India: equity and sustainability -- 29. Surging environmentalism in Japan: a sociological perspective -- 30. Agricultural development policy and the environment in Ghana -- 31. Rural sustainability in Britain: the social bases of sustainability -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- 1. The evolution of environmental sociology: a brief history and assessment of the American experience -- 2. Social institutions and environmental change -- 3. Sustainability and social construction -- 4. 'Sustainable development' -- 5. 'Sustainable rural development': from industrial agriculture to agroecology -- 6. Environment and developing countries -- 7. Society's metabolism: on the childhood and adolescence of a rising conceptual star -- 8. Ecological modernization: industrial transformations and environmental reform -- 9. Postmodernism and environmentalism: complementary or contradictory discourses? -- 10. A coevolutionary environmental sociology -- 11. Time and the environment -- 12. Beyond sociology: Marxism and the environment -- 13. Gender and the environment -- 14. Environmental consciousness and behaviour: the greening of lifestyles -- 15. Risk, the environment and environmental knowledges -- 16. Science and the environment -- 17. Trust in models? The mediating and transformative role of computer models in environmental discourse -- 18. Revealing the invisible: sociology, energy and the environment -- 19. Industrial metabolism, economic growth and institutional change -- 20. Politics and the environment in the UK and beyond -- 21. The evolution of the relationship between ecologism and nationalism -- 22. Environmental Movements and green parties in western and eastern Europe -- 23. Environment in eastern Europe -- 24. Between commitment and implementation: tensions in sustainable development policy of the European Union -- 25. Environment and society in Latin America -- 26. Biosphere, history and conjuncture in the analysis of the Amazon problem -- 27. Environment and society in the Middle East: conflicts over water -- 28. Irrigation in India: equity and sustainability -- 29. Surging environmentalism in Japan: a sociological perspective -- 30. Agricultural development policy and the environment in Ghana -- 31. Rural sustainability in Britain: the social bases of sustainability -- Index.

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