The international handbook of environmental sociology / 
 Environmental sociology 
edited by Michael Redclift, Graham Woodgate. 
 - xv, 485 pages :  illustrations ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> List of figures --  List of tables --  List of contributors --  Introduction --  The evolution of environmental sociology: a brief history and assessment of the American experience --  Social institutions and environmental change --  Sustainability and social construction --  'Sustainable development' --  'Sustainable rural development': from industrial agriculture to agroecology --  Environment and developing countries --  Society's metabolism: on the childhood and adolescence of a rising conceptual star --  Ecological modernization: industrial transformations and environmental reform --  Postmodernism and environmentalism: complementary or contradictory discourses? --  A coevolutionary environmental sociology --  Time and the environment --  Beyond sociology: Marxism and the environment --  Gender and the environment --  Environmental consciousness and behaviour: the greening of lifestyles --  Risk, the environment and environmental knowledges --  Science and the environment --  Trust in models? The mediating and transformative role of computer models in environmental discourse --  Revealing the invisible: sociology, energy and the environment --  Industrial metabolism, economic growth and institutional change --  Politics and the environment in the UK and beyond --  The evolution of the relationship between ecologism and nationalism --  Environmental Movements and green parties in western and eastern Europe --  Environment in eastern Europe --  Between commitment and implementation: tensions in sustainable development policy of the European Union --  Environment and society in Latin America --  Biosphere, history and conjuncture in the analysis of the Amazon problem --  Environment and society in the Middle East: conflicts over water --  Irrigation in India: equity and sustainability --  Surging environmentalism in Japan: a sociological perspective --  Agricultural development policy and the environment in Ghana --  Rural sustainability in Britain: the social bases of sustainability --  Index.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  12.  13.  14.  15.  16.  17.  18.  19.  20.  21.  22.  23.  24.  25.  26.  27.  28.  29.  30.  31. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1840642432 9781840642438 185898405X 9781858984056 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97022850 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Environmentalism--Social aspects<br/>Sustainable development.<br/>Environmental policy.<br/>Social ecology<br/>Human ecology
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GE195.  / I57 1997 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>304.28