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Environment, energy, and society : exemplary works / Craig R. Humphrey, Tammy L. Lewis, Frederick H. Buttel.

Humphrey, Craig R. (Author). Lewis, Tammy L. (Added Author). Buttel, Frederick H. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 0534579574
  • ISBN: 9780534579579
  • Physical Description: xiii, 431 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Belmont, CA : Wadsworth Thomson Learning, ©2003.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"This text was designed as a reader to accompany Humphrey, Lewis, and Buttel, Environment, energy, and society: a new synthesis (2002). The reader is divided into eight parts exploring issues and topics central to the study of the environment, rural and urban problems."--Publisher's Web site.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction, the development of environmental sociology -- Exploring environmental sociology: Environmental inequalities, literature review and proposals for new directions in research and theory / A. Szasz and M. Meuser; Digging deeper, mining-dependent regions in historical perspective / W.R. Freudenburg and S. Frickel; Ozone entrepreneurs and the building of global coalitions / N. Reichman and P. Canan -- Social theory and the environment: Social institutions and environmental change / F.H. Buttel; Struggling with human exemptionalism, the rise, decline and revitalization of environmental sociology / R.E. Dunlap and W.R. Catton, Jr.; Crisis of the earth / J.B. Foster -- Population and the environment: Demographic consequences of declining fertility / J. Bongaarts; Bangladesh fertility decline, an interpretation / J.C. Caldwell [and others]; Women's rights and reproductive choice, rethinking the connections / R. Dixon-Mueller -- Struggle over hunger: Ending hunger in developing countries / F.H. Buttel; Can the growing human population feed itself / J. Bongaarts; Global food politics / P. McMichael -- Energy and the environment: Climate change and society, speculation, construction and scientific explanation / E.A. Rosa and T. Dietz; Global inequality and climate change / J.T. Roberts; Global environmental change in the news, 1987-90 versus 1992-96 / A. Mazur -- Environmental movement: New mass issue is born / A. Szasz; Deep, long-range ecology movement, 1960-2000-a review / B. Devall; Global environmentalism, a challenge to the postmaterialism thesis / W.R. Brechin and W. Kempton -- Sociology of sustainable development: Promoting big business at Rio / P. Chatterjee and M. Finger -- Organizing for sustainable development, the biodiversity crisis and an encompassing organization in Esmeraldas, Ecuador / T.K. Rudel; Misrepresenting communities, the politics of community-based rural ecotourism in Gales Point Manatee, Belize / J.M. Belsky -- Environmental futures: Ecological modernization, industrial transformations and environmental reform / A.P. JK Mol; Treadmill of production and the environmental state / A. Schnaiberg, D.N. Pellow, and A. Weinberg.
Subject:
Environmentalism > Social aspects.
Environmental policy.
Social ecology.
Human ecology.

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