Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0742559092 ISBN 13: 9780742559097

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

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)

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0742559092
• ISBN 13: 9780742559097
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 518
• Editor: Leslie King, Deborah McCarthy