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About This Book
How are human societies changing the global environment?
Is sustainable development really possible?
Can environmental risks be avoided?
Is our experience of nature changing?
This book shows how questions about the environment cannot be properly answered without taking a sociological approach. It provides a comprehensive guide to the ways in which sociologists have responded to the challenge of environmental issues as diverse as global warming, ozone depletion, biodiversity loss and marine pollution. It also covers sociological ideas such as risk, interpretations of nature, environmental realism, ecological modernization and globalization. Environmentalism and green politics are also introduced. Unlike many other texts in the field, the book takes a long-term view, locating environmental dilemmas within the context of social development and globalization.
The Environment: A Sociological Introduction is unique in presenting environmental issues at an introductory level that assumes no specialist knowledge on the part of readers. The book is written in a remarkably clear and accessible style, and uses a rich range of empirical examples from across the globe to illustrate key debates. A carefully assembled glossary and annotated further reading suggestions also help to bring ideas to life.
The book will be a valuable resource for students in a range of disciplines, including sociology, geography and the environmental sciences, but also for anyone who wants to get to grips with contemporary environmental debates.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Page
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1. Natural Environments
- 2. Knowing the Environment
- 3. Experiencing the Environment
- 4. Transforming the Environment
- 5. Polluting the Environment
- 6. Defending the Environment
- 7. Politicizing the Environment
- 8. Sustaining the Environment
- 9. A Global Environment
- Glossary
- References and Further Reading
- Index