The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology
Volume 1
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- Editors:
- Katharine Legun, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands
- Julie C. Keller, University of Rhode Island
- Michael Carolan, Colorado State University
- Michael M. Bell, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Date Published: December 2020
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108429320
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The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology is a go-to resource for cutting-edge research in the field. This two-volume work covers the rich theoretic foundations of the sub-discipline, as well as novel approaches and emerging areas of research that add vitality and momentum to the discipline. Over the course of sixty chapters, the authors featured in this work reach new levels of theoretical depth, incorporating a global scope and diversity of cases. This book explores the broad scope of crucial disciplinary ideas and areas of research, extending its investigation to the trajectories of thought that led to their unfolding. This unique work serves as an invaluable tool for all those working in the nexus of environment and society.
Read more- An overview of various theoretical approaches and empirical examples that reflect both the breadth and depth of the field
- Chapters are written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the field of environmental sociology
- New directions in environmental sociological theory and new empirical examples are highlighted, with special attention to the current political context
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- Date Published: December 2020
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108429320
- length: 522 pages
- dimensions: 257 x 181 x 31 mm
- weight: 1.08kg
- contains: 5 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Part I. Theory in Environmental Sociology
2: Classical Theory and Environmental Sociology: Toward Deeper and Stronger Roots Hannah Holleman
3: Globalizing Environmental Sociology Rolf Lidskog & Stewart Lockie
4. An Embodied Materialist Sociology Ariel Salleh
5. The Environmental Sociology of the Good: Nature, Faith, and the Bourgeois Transition Michael M. Bell
6. Microsociological Perspectives in Environmental Sociology Brad H. Brewster & Antony J. Puddephatt
Part II The Economy and Environmental Sociology
7. Material Worlds: Understanding the Relationship of Capital and Ecology Richard York & Stefano B. Longo
8. Green Economies and Community Wellbeing Yifei Li & Gary Paul Green
9. Beyond the “Limits to Growth”: Neoliberal Natures and the “Green” Economy patrick Bresnihan
10. The Ecosocialist Alternative Michael Löwy
11. Commons, Power, and (Counter)Hegemony Gustavo A. García-López
12. Emplacing Sustainability in a Post-Capitalist World Elizabeth S. Barron
Part III: Culture and Environmental Sociology
13. Media and the Environmental Movement in a Digital Age John Hannigan
14. National Parks and (Neo)Colonialisms Maano Ramutsindela
15. Post Carbon Transition Futuring: For a Reconstructive Turn in the Environmental Social Sciences? Damian White & Timmons Roberts
16. Outer Space and New Frontiers to Environmental Imaginations James S. Ormrod
17. New Territory for Environmental Sociology: Environmental Philosophy and Nature-Based Tourism Guojie Zhang, James E. S. Higham, & Julia Albrecht
Part IV: Politics, Power, State
18. Conflicting Environmental Imaginaries in Post-Apartheid South Africa Jacklyn Cock
19. The Growth in International Audit Culture: Achieving Agricultural Sustainability Inside a World of Measures? Hugh Campbell
20. Political Ecologies of State Land Management John Zinda
21. Green Crime and the Treadmill of Production Michael A. Long, Michael J. Lynch, & Paul B. Stretesky
22. Governing Science and Technology: From the Linear Model to Responsible Research and Innovation Phil Macnaghten
23. The Paradox of Public Knowledge in Environmental Sociology Noah Weeth Feinstein
24. Relational Resilience and the Making of Diverse Worlds James Hale & Michael Carolan
Part V: Social Justice
25. Expanding Critical and Radical Approaches to Environmental Justice david N. Pellow
26. Development Strategies and Environmental Inequalities in Brazil Henri Acselrad
27 Rural Estrangement: Roadblocks and Roundabouts to Justice John C. Canfield, Karl Galloway, & Loka Ashwood
28. Environmental Justice and Capitalism Leslie King
29. Ecological Economics and Environmental Sociology: A Social Power Structures Approach to Environmental Justice in Economic Systems Philip M. Warsaw.
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