Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology
ISBN: 9780195371123 | 0195371127
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 8/20/2008
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"This text is impressively comprehensive, and the treatment of the Global South is especially good. The material is sociological, engaging, and at an appropriate level for undergraduates. If I teach the course again, I would use this book." -Craig Humphrey, Pennsylvania State University
The most student-oriented book available for environmental sociology courses, Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology introduces undergraduates to the subject in a groundbreaking new way. Instead of compiling articles fr... MORE
The most student-oriented book available for environmental sociology courses, Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology introduces undergraduates to the subject in a groundbreaking new way. Instead of compiling articles fr... MORE
| Annotated Table of Contents | p. viii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
| About the Contributors | p. xviii |
| An Introduction to Environmental Sociology | p. 1 |
| Theory | |
| The Social Construction of Nature: Of Computers, Butterflies, Dogs, and Trucks | p. 11 |
| Theories in Environmental Sociology | p. 25 |
| Systemic Causes of Environmental Disruption | |
| The State and P... MORE | p. 47 |
| Labor Productivity and the Environment | p. 59 |
| Corporate Power: The Role of the Global Media in Shaping What We Know About the Environment | p. 68 |
| The Science of Nature and the Nature of Science | p. 85 |
| Technological Change and the Environment | p. 95 |
| Population, Demography, and the Environment | p. 107 |
| Some Social Consequences of Environmental Disruption | |
| Environmental Inequality and Environmental Justice | p. 127 |
| The Sociology of Environmental Health | p. 142 |
| From Farms to Factories: The Environmental Consequences of Swine Industrialization in North Carolina | p. 153 |
| Understanding Disaster Vulnerability: Floods and Hurricanes | p. 176 |
| Climate Change: Why the Old Approaches Aren't Working | p. 191 |
| Some Social Responses to Environmental Disruption | |
| U.S. Environmental Movements | p. 211 |
| Labor and the Environment | p. 228 |
| Environmental Movements in the Global South | p. 244 |
| Indigenous Cultures: Environmental Knowledge, Practice, and Rights | p. 255 |
| The Paradoxes of Sustainable Development: Focus on Ecotourism | p. 269 |
| Conclusion: Unanswered Questions and the Future of Environmental Sociology | p. 290 |
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Kenneth A. Gould is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Brooklyn College and Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is coauthor of Environment and Society: The Enduring Conflict (1994).
Tammy L. Lewis is Associate Professor of Sociology at Muhlenberg College. She is coauthor of Environment, Energy, and Society: A New Synthesis (2002).
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