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2022
Environmental Sociology: Risk and Sustainability in Modernity examines the encounter between sociology and contemporary environmental issues. It presents the proposal for an environmental sociology considering the dilemmas surrounding sustainable development, ecological modernization, and risk society.
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Environmental Sociology: Risk and Sustainability in Modernity examines the encounter between sociology and contemporary environmental issues. It presents the proposal for an environmental sociology considering the dilemmas surrounding sustainable development, ecological modernization, and risk society.
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Animals in environmental sociology
2021It is well established that nonhuman animals have substantial social significance in human society (Arluke & Sanders, 1996; Irvine, 2008; Nibert, 2013). However, some aspects of sociological investigation have not fully engaged with the question of how animals are embedded in human social systems. Wilkie (2015) calls for a reimagining of C.
Linda Kalof, Cameron T. Whitley
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From Environmental Sociologies to Environmental Sociology?
Organization & Environment, 2006U.S. environmental sociology has gone through a very different development path compared with its European counterpart. U.S. environmental sociology was dominant in establishing the field and setting the terms for the development and identity of this subdiscipline. Whereas U.S.
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Making environmental sociology sociological
Sociological Spectrum, 1987Three basic sociological distinctions—viewing the environment as home or place of sustenance, separation of home and workplace, and “thing” work versus “people” work—are used to illuminate such sociological concerns as environmental degradation as a social problem, social specialization and pollution, and the demographic profiles of environmentally ...
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Globalizing Environmental Sociology
2020This chapter discusses what a more thoroughly globalized environmental sociology might look like, and the need to re-think more deeply the ways in which we conceptualize environmental sociology. Five challenges are discussed: i) the need to better understand globalization itself and the emergence of new sources and forms of authority; ii) the socially ...
Lidskog, Rolf, Lockie, Stewart
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What is environmental sociology?
International Journal of Environmental Studies, 2021Climate change is opening new windows. The subject of the environment is getting related to many other subjects such as economics, sociology, biology, architecture, chemistry, and politics.
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Handbook of Environmental Sociology
Contemporary Sociology, 2003Environmental Sociology: An Introduction by Riley E. Dunlap, William Michelson, and Glenn Stalker Sociological Theory and the Natural Environment by Frederick H. Buttel and Craig R. Humphrey Theory and the Sociological Study of the Built Environment by William Michelson and Willem van Vliet-- Socio-Behavioral Qualities of the Built Environment by ...
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2018
Having emerged in the 1970s as public awareness of and concern for environmental problems increased, environmental sociology’s main goal is to understand the interconnections between human societies and the natural (or biophysical) environment. Environmental sociology has been described as comprising four major areas of research.
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Having emerged in the 1970s as public awareness of and concern for environmental problems increased, environmental sociology’s main goal is to understand the interconnections between human societies and the natural (or biophysical) environment. Environmental sociology has been described as comprising four major areas of research.
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