Environment and Society: Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues, Canadian Edition

Harper, Charles L.; Fletcher, Thomas H.;

ISBN 10: 0131290827 / ISBN 13: 9780131290822

Published by Pearson, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2011

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Good to Very good condition. Minor wear. Binding tight, pages lightly age toned. Pictures available upon request.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Environment and Society: Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues, Canadian Edition
• Publisher: Pearson, Toronto, ON, Canada
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131290827
• ISBN 13: 9780131290822
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Non-Fiction

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Synopsis

Environment and Society relates to a diverse audience and encompasses viewpoints from a variety of natural and social science approaches.

This integrative book about human-environment relations connects many issues about human societies, ecological systems, and environments with data and perspectives from different fields of study. Its viewpoint is primarily sociological and it is designed for courses in Environmental Sociology and Environmental Issues, or taught in departments of Sociology, Environmental Studies, Anthropology, Political Science, and Human Geography.

About the Author

Charles Harper is a professor of sociology at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. As a member of the faculty there since 1968, he has developed and taught numerous courses in the sociology department. Dr. Harper’s teaching and scholarly interests inolve the study of social change, globalization, the sociology of religion, social theory, and environmental sociology. He has published papers in a variety of academic journals.

    Along with Environment and Society, Dr. Harper is the author of two other textbooks. Co-authored with Kevin Leicht, his book Exploring Social Change: America and the World (Prentice Hall, 2007) is now in its Fifth Edition. Another book, Food, Society, and Environment (Prentice Hall, 2003) was co-authored with Bryan F. LeBeau. .

    As an undergraduate, Dr. Harper studied biology and the natural sciences. He received a bachelor’s degree from Central Missouri State University, a Master’s degree in sociology from the University of Missouri, and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

    He and his wife, Anne, live close to Creighton’s campus near a “clan” of adult children, stepchildren, and grandchildren. He also enjoys traveling, bicycling, and reading.