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This environmental sociology reader emphasizes utilizing the sociological imagination to examine the race, class, gender, and other power dimensions that intersect environmental issues. It includes excerpts from recently published pieces that use various sociological perspectives, especially critical frameworks, to examine a wide range of topics-from the globalization of hazardous wastes and industries to mountaintop removal for mining to the construction of nature in a television sitcom. This second edition, like the first, aims to engage undergraduate students, and includes nine new selections chosen from recent work. A section on social constructionism has been added, and the section on science, risk, and health has been expanded to mirror the increased interest in that field. The new edition also includes a chapter on climate change and new selections in the section on 'Thinking about Change/Working for Change,' which helps students see how individuals can affect the future of the planet through their actions.
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Leslie King is assistant professor of sociology and environmental science and policy at Smith College. Deborah McCarthy is assistant professor in sociology and anthropology at the College of Charleston.
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This collection of contemporary works is organized around the premise that environmental decline has sociological dimensions. Social and political institutions have environmental impacts that must be properly understood if humans want to reverse environmental degradation. Woven throughout is the central contention that environmental decision making is dependent on systems of power relations or individual levels of power. (G. B. Osborne)
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- PublisherRowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0742559084
- ISBN 13 9780742559080
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number2
- Number of pages518
- EditorKing Leslie, McCarthy Deborah
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