The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology

Autorentext
Michael Bell is Chair and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of City of the Good: Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for What Is Right and the widely used environmental sociology textbook, An Invitation to Environmental Sociology, now in its sixth edition (2020). Michael Carolan is a Professor of Sociology at Colorado State University and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Affairs for the College of Liberal Arts. He has published over 200 peer review articles and more than a dozen books.Katharine Legun is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Otago in New Zealand. Her work considers how plants, measurement systems, and new artificial intelligence technology shapes ecological and economic agency, particularly in agri-food systems.Julie C. Keller is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Rhode Island. Her research and teaching focus on rural inequality, agricultural labor, farmers, and immigration. She is the author of Milking in the Shadows: Migrants and Mobility in America's Dairyland (2019).

Klappentext
Overview of the cutting edge of research in environmental sociology, covering a broad range of theoretical approaches and empirical cases.

Zusammenfassung
A two-volume work featuring sixty chapters, The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology offers educators, students, and researchers a go-to resource for learning about the cutting edge of research in the field, providing theoretical depth, global scope, and diversity of cases

Inhalt

1. Introduction; Part I. Theory in Environmental Sociology; 2: Classical Theory and Environmental Sociology: Toward Deeper and Stronger Roots Hannah Holleman; 3: Globalizing Environmental Sociology Rolf Lidskog & Stewart Lockie; 4. An Embodied Materialist Sociology Ariel Salleh; 5. The Environmental Sociology of the Good: Nature, Faith, and the Bourgeois Transition Michael M. Bell; 6. Microsociological Perspectives in Environmental Sociology Brad H. Brewster & Antony J. Puddephatt; Part II The Economy and Environmental Sociology; 7. Material Worlds: Understanding the Relationship of Capital and Ecology Richard York & Stefano B. Longo; 8. Green Economies and Community Wellbeing Yifei Li & Gary Paul Green; 9. Beyond the "Limits to Growth": Neoliberal Natures and the "Green" Economy patrick Bresnihan; 10. The Ecosocialist Alternative Michael Löwy; 11. Commons, Power, and (Counter)Hegemony Gustavo A. García-López; 12. Emplacing Sustainability in a Post-Capitalist World Elizabeth S. Barron; Part III: Culture and Environmental Sociology; 13. Media and the Environmental Movement in a Digital Age John Hannigan; 14. National Parks and (Neo)Colonialisms Maano Ramutsindela; 15. Post Carbon Transition Futuring: For a Reconstructive Turn in the Environmental Social Sciences? Damian White & Timmons Roberts; 16. Outer Space and New Frontiers to Environmental Imaginations James S. Ormrod; 17. New Territory for Environmental Sociology: Environmental Philosophy and Nature-Based Tourism Guojie Zhang, James E. S. Higham, & Julia Albrecht; Part IV: Politics, Power, State; 18. Conflicting Environmental Imaginaries in Post-Apartheid South Africa Jacklyn Cock; 19. The Growth in International Audit Culture: Achieving Agricultural Sustainability Inside a World of Measures? Hugh Campbell; 20. Political Ecologies of State Land Management John Zinda; 21. Green Crime and the Treadmill of Production Michael A. Long, Michael J. Lynch, & Paul B. Stretesky; 22. Governing Science and Technology: From the Linear Model to Responsible Research and Innovation Phil Macnaghten; 23. The Paradox of Public Knowledge in Environmental Sociology Noah Weeth Feinstein; 24. Relational Resilience and the Making of Diverse Worlds James Hale & Michael Carolan; Part V: Social Justice; 25. Expanding Critical and Radical Approaches to Environmental Justice david N. Pellow; 26. Development Strategies and Environmental Inequalities in Brazil Henri Acselrad; 27 Rural Estrangement: Roadblocks and Roundabouts to Justice John C. Canfield, Karl Galloway, & Loka Ashwood; 28. Environmental Justice and Capitalism Leslie King; 29. Ecological Economics and Environmental Sociology: A Social Power Structures Approach to Environmental Justice in Economic Systems Philip M. Warsaw.