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Environmental Sociology is a comprehensive survey and assessment of sociological theories of the relations between societies and their “natural” biophysical environments. This book addresses virtually all of the major perspectives, focal points, and debates in environmental sociology today—classical and twentieth-century social theories, macro-micro linkage issues, globalization and development, reflexive modernization, ecological modernization ...
This comprehensive overview of the first quarter-century of American environmental sociology introduces readers top the research and theoretical perspectives in this “new†field of study. Formally established in 1976 with the formation of the American Sociological association’s Section on Environmental Sociology, the field emerged in response to widespread societal recognition of the significance of environmental problems in the 1970s and has flourished ...