Includes Foreword by Raymond Murphy and Afterword by Matthias Gross

Discusses the major paradigms, concepts, and debates in today's environmental sciences

Includes contributions from some of the leading environmental sociologists in the field

Provides a clear understanding of society-ecology relations from a environmental sociological perspective

Includes Foreword by Raymond Murphy and Afterword by Matthias Gross Discusses the major paradigms, concepts, and debates in today's environmental sciences Includes contributions from some of the leading environmental sociologists in the field Provides a clear understanding of society-ecology relations from a environmental sociological perspective

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Magnus Boström is Professor of Sociology at Örebro University, Sweden, with a theoretical interest and research profile in environmental sociology. His research interest generally concerns politics, representation, consumption and action in relation to a broad variety of transnational environmental and sustainability issues.
Debra J. Davidson is Professor of Environmental Sociology in the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology at the University of Alberta, USA. Her key areas of teaching and research include social responses to climate change, and crises and transitions in food and energy systems.

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Ch 1. Introduction: Conceptualizing environment-society relations Magnus Boström and Debra J. Davidson.- Ch. 2. The Anthropocene: A Narrative in the Making Rolf Lidskog and Claire Waterton.- Ch. 3. Metabolism Debra J. Davidson.- Ch. 4. Risk and Resilience Marja Ylönen.- Ch. 5. Global Environmental Networks and Flows addressing Global Environmental Change Peter Oosterveer.- Ch. 6. The environmental state and environmental governance Arthur P.J. Mol.- Ch. 7. Economic Valuation of the Environment Steve Yearley.- Ch. 8. Environmental Expertise Rolf Lidskog and Göran Sundqvist.- Ch. 9. The Practice of Green Consumption Emily Huddart Kennedy and Darcy Hauslik.- Ch. 10. Minding the mundane: Everyday practices as central pillar of sustainability thinking and research Henrike Rau.- Ch. 11. Environmental Justice J. Timmons Roberts, David Pellow and Paul Mohai .- Ch. 12. Environmental Democracy: Participation, Deliberation and Citizenship Frank Fisher.- Ch. 13. Joining people with things. The commons and environmental sociology Luigi Pellizzoni.- Ch. 14. Spatial frames and the quest for institutional fit C.S.A. (Kris) Van Koppen and Simon R. Bush.- Ch. 15. Conflicting temporalities of social and environmental change? Stewart Lockie and Catherine Mei Ling Wong.- Ch. 16. Conclusion A proposal for a brave new world of conceptual reflexivity - Magnus Boström, Debra J. Davidson, and Stewart Lockie.- Afterword: Irony and Contrarian Imaginations Matthias Gross.