The international handbook of environmental sociology /

The international handbook of environmental sociology / edited by Michael R. Redclift, Graham Woodgate. - 2nd ed. - Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2010. - xi, 434 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.

Previous ed.: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Concepts and theories in environmental sociology. Maturation and Diversification of Environmental Sociology : From Constructivism and Realism to Agnosticism and Pragmatism / Social Institutions and Environmental Change / From Environment Sociology to Global Ecosociology : The Dunlap-Buttel Debates / Ecological Modernization as a Social Theory of Environmental Reform / Ecological Modernization Theory : Theoretical and Empirical Challenges / Postconstructivist Political Ecologies / Marx's Ecology and its Historical Significance / Transition Out of Carbon Dependence: The Crises of Environment and Markets / Socio-ecological Agency : From 'Human Exceptionalism' to Coping with 'Exceptional' Global Environmental Change / Ecological Debt : An Integrating Concept for Socio-Environmental Change / Emergence Model of Environment and Society / Peering into the Abyss : Environment, Research and Absurdity in the 'Age of Stupid' / Graham Woodgate -- Riley E. Dunlap -- Frederick H. Buttel -- Jean-Guy Vaillancourt -- Arthur P.J. Mol -- Richard York, Eugene A. Rosa, Thomas Dietz -- Arturo Escobar -- John Bellamy Foster -- Michael R. Redclift -- David Manuel-Navarrete, Christine N. Buzinde -- IƱaki Barcena Hinoja,d Rosa Lago Aurrekoetxea -- John Hannigan -- Raymond L. Bryant -- Introduction ; Editorial Commentary / Substantive issues for environmental sociology. Animals and Us / Science and the Environment in the Twenty first Century / New Challenges for Twenty first Century Environmental Movements : Agricultural Biotechnology and Nanotechnology / Sustainable Consumption : Developments, Considerations and New Directions / Globalisation, Convergence and the Euro Atlantic Development Model / Environmental Hazards and Human Disasters / Structural Obstacles to an Effective Post 2012 Global Climate Agreement : Why Social Structure Matters and How Addressing it Can Help Break the Impasse / Environmental Sociology and International Forestry : Historical Overview and Future Directions / Graham Woodgate -- Ted Benton -- Steven Yearley -- Maria Kousis -- Emma D. Hinton, Michael K. Goodman -- Wolfgang Sachs -- Raymond Murphy -- Bradley C. Parks, J. Timmons Roberts -- Bianca Ambrose-Oji -- Editorial Commentary / International perspectives on environment and society. Role of Place in the Margins of Space / Society, Environment and Development in Africa / Neoliberal Regimes of Environmental Governance : Climate Change, Biodiversity and Agriculture in Australia / Environmental Reform in Modernizing China / Civic Engagement in Environmental Governance in Central and Eastern Europe / 'Sustaining Conservation' for Mexico? / Graham Woodgate -- David Manuel-Navarrete, Michael R. Redclift -- William M. Adams -- Stewart Lockie -- Arthur P.J. Mol -- JoAnn Carmin -- Nora Haenn. Editorial Commentary /



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Sustainable development.
Environmental sociology.
Environmental policy.
Social ecology.
Human ecology.

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