Environmental sociology: from analysis to action

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Environmental Sociology encourages students to use the sociological imagination to explore a broad spectrum of issues facing the environment today. The third edition of this reader includes an updated introduction and thirteen new pieces that examine how social dimensions, particularly power and inequality, interact with environmental issues.

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Full title :Environmental sociology : from analysis to action / edited by Leslie King and Deborah McCarthy Auriffeille.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.
Edition:3rd edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Place of Publication:Lanham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

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Description:1 online resource (459 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781442220775, 1442220775, 1299726283, 9781299726284
oclc:ocn852759316
LC Classification:GE195
Dewey Decimal:363.7

Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Environmental Problems Require Social Solutions; PART I. Imagining Nature; Chapter 1. Nature's Looking Glass; PART II. Political Economy; Chapter 2. Why Ecological Revolution?; Chapter 3. The Tragedy of the Commodity: The Overexploitation of the Mediterranean Bluefin Tuna Fishery; Chapter 4. Ecological Modernization at Work? Environmental Policy Reform in Sweden at the Turn of the Century; Chapter 5. A Tale of Contrasting Trends: Three Measures of the Ecological Footprint in China, India, Japan, and The United States, 1961-2003.

PART III. EnvironmentalInequalitiesChapter 6. Breaking the Food Chains: An Investigation of Food Justice Activism; Chapter 7. Turning Public Issues into Private Troubles: Lead Contamination, Domestic Labor, and the Exploitation of Women; Chapter 8. Addressing Urban Transportation Equity in the United States; PART IV. Social Construction of the Environment-Identity, Emotions and Community; Chapter 9. Wild Horses and the Political Ecology of Nature Restoration in the Missouri Ozarks.

Chapter 10. People Want to Protect Themselves a Little Bit: Emotions, Denial, and Social Movement NonparticipationChapter 11. Community…

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Environmental justice Environmental sociology Environmentalism Environmentalism -- North America Environnementalisme -- Amérique du Nord Justice environnementale North America POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy SCIENCE -- Environmental Science Sociologie de l'environnement