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Environment, Energy and Society Exemplary Works

by: Humphrey, Craig R.; Lewis, Tammy L.; Buttel, Frederick H.

Environment, Energy and Society Exemplary Works

by: Humphrey, Craig R.; Lewis, Tammy L.; Buttel, Frederick H.

ISBN 13:
9780534579579
ISBN 10:
0534579574
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 11/18/2002
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

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Summary

This book was designed as a reader to accompany Humphrey, Lewis, and Buttel, Environment, Energy, and Society: A New Synthesis (2002). The reader is divided into eight parts exploring issues and topics central to the study of the environment, rural and urban problems.

Preface

Introduction: The Development of Environmental Sociology

(16)

PART I Exploring Environmental Sociology

(56)

Environmental Inequalities: Literature Review and Proposals for New Directions in Research and Theory

(16)

Andrew Szasz

Michael Meuser

Digging Deeper: Mining-Dependent Regions in Historical Perspective

(16)

William R. Freudenburg

Scott Frickel

Ozone Entrepreneurs and the Building of Global Coalitions

(18)

Nancy Reichman

Penelope Canan

PART II Social Theory and the Environment

(64)

Social Institutions and Environmental Change

(14)

Frederick H. Buttel

Struggling with Human Exemptionalism: The Rise, Decline and Revitalization of Environmental Sociology

(23)

Riley E. Dunlap

William R. Catton, Jr.

The Crisis of the Earth

120

(17)

John Bellamy Foster

PART III Population and the Environment

137

(38)

Demographic Consequences of Declining Fertility

143

(4)

John Bongaarts

The Bangladesh Fertility Decline: An Interpretation

147

(14)

John C. Caldwell

Barkat-e-Khuda

Bruce Caldwell

Indrani Pieris

Pat Caldwell

Women's Rights and Reproductive Choice: Rethinking the Connections

161

(14)

Ruth Dixon-Mueller

PART IV The Struggle Over Hunger

175

(44)

Ending Hunger in Developing Countries

184

(16)

Frederick H. Buttel

Can the Growing Human Population Feed Itself?

200

(7)

John Bongaarts

Global Food Politics

207

(12)

Philip McMichael

PART V Energy and the Environment

219

(54)

Climate Change and Society: Speculation, Construction and Scientific Explanation

229

(25)

Eugene A. Rosa

Thomas Dietz

Global Inequality and Climate Change

254

(8)

J. Timmons Roberts

Global Environmental Change in the News: 1987--90 versus 1992--96

262

(11)

Allan Mazur

PART VI The Environmental Movement

273

(72)

A New Mass Issue Is Born

280

(31)

Andrew Szasz

The Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement: 1960--2000---A Review

311

(15)

Bill Devall

Global Environmentalism: A Challenge to the Postmaterialism Thesis?

326

(19)

Steven R. Brechin

Willett Kempton

PART VII The Sociology of Sustainable Development

345

(46)

Promoting Big Business at Rio

353

(8)

Pratap Chatterjee

Matthias Finger

Organizing for Sustainable Development: The Biodiversity Crisis and an Encompassing Organization in Esmeraldas, Ecuador

361

(11)

Thomas K. Rudel

Misrepresenting Communities: The Politics of Community-Based Rural Ecotourism in Gales Point Manatee, Belize

372

(19)

Jill M. Belsky

PART VIII Environmental Futures

391

(36)

Ecological Modernization: Industrial Transformations and Environmental Reform

401

(11)

Arthur P.J. Mol

The Treadmill of Production and the Environmental State

412

(15)

Allan Schnaiberg

David N. Pellow

Adam Weinberg

Bibliography for Introductory Discussions

427

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Environment, Energy and Society Exemplary Works

Environment, Energy and Society Exemplary Works

9780534579579

0534579574

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