TY  - BOOK
AU  - Redclift,M.R.
AU  - Woodgate,Graham
TI  - The international handbook of environmental sociology
SN  - 1840642432
AV  - GE195. I57 1997
U1  - 304.28 
PY  - 1997///]
CY  - Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, USA
PB  - Edward Elgar
KW  - Environmentalism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Sustainable development
KW  - Environmental policy
KW  - Social ecology
KW  - Human ecology
N1  - 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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