Environmental Sociology
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-35513-1
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 30th March 2006
- Pages: 208
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About the Book
This new edition of John Hannigan's well-known and respected text has been thoroughly revised to reflect recent conceptual and empirical advances in environmental sociology. The book offers a distinctive and even-handed treatment of environmental issues and debates, integrating European theoretical contributions such as risk society and ecological modernization with North American empirical insights and findings. Key updates include:
- an extended discussion of how classic sociological theory relates to contemporary environmental sociology
- a critical overview of contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives, namely co-constructionist theories of ‘socionature’
- a focus on cultural sociologies of the environment, notably discourse analysis and social framing
- updated coverage of the environmental justice movement and grassroots mobilizations
- a review of the linkages between environmental sociology and the sociology of disasters
- a brand new case history chapter on the escalating global conflict over freshwater resources.
Making a strong case for centrally incorporating power relations into a realist/constructionist model of environmental knowledge, politics and policy-making, this book includes a comparative analysis of the USA, Britain and Canada, and will prove a valuable student resource.
Table of Contents
1. Environmental Sociology as a Field of Inquiry 2. Contemporary Theoretical Approaches to Environmental Sociology 3. Environmental Discourse 4. Discourse, Power Relations and Political Ecology 5. Social Construction of Environmental Issues and Problems 6. Media and Environmental Communication 7. Science, Scientists and Environmental Problems 8. Risk 9. Biodiversity Loss: The Successful ‘Career’ of a Global Environmental Problem 10. Towards an ’Emergence’ Model of Environment and Society
About the Author(s)
John Hannigan is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto and author of two major books Environmental Sociology: A Social Constructionist Perspective (1995) and Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern City (1998), both published by Routledge.