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Social Perspectives on Mobility
Editors: Thyra Uth Thomsen, Lise Drewes Nielsen, Henrik Gudmundsson (Ashgate,
2005)
"It addresses three broad themes. Firstly, mobility as a constructed
social reality, examining how individuals construct notions of mobility in
their everyday life and practice. Secondly, mobility as spatial
co-ordination and transgression, and finally, mobility as a policy theme,
where the contributers explore recent developments in transport policy at
national and european levels, suggesting ways forward for both research and
policy. In the final section of the book new visions for research into
sustainability and mobility are laid out"
Liberal Democracy and Environmentalism: The End of Environmentalism? (Routledge/ECPR
Studies in European Political Science)
Marcel Wissenburg
(Editor),
Yoram Levy
(Editor), 2004
"As environmental issues have increasingly been incorporated into liberal
democratic thought and political practice, environmentalism and ecologism
have become fashionable, even respectable schools of political thought.
Despite and perhaps precisely because of this, the authors ask the pertinent
question: has environmentalism reached its end - or ends?"
Nature, Environment and Society
Philip W. Sutton,
2004
"This uniquely comprehensive guide traces the origins and development of environmental movements and environmental issues, providing a critical review of the most significant debates in the new field of environmental sociology. It covers environmental ideas, environmental movements, social constructionism, critical realism, 'ecocentric' theory, environmental identities, risk society theory, sustainable development, Green consumerism, ecological modernization and debates around modernity and post modernity."
Society and Nature: Changing Our Environment, Changing Ourselves
Peter Dickens,
2004
"A lively and highly accessible introduction to the sociology of the environment. The book provides a comprehensive guide to contemporary issues and current debates including society, nature and the enlightenment, industry and environmental transformation, commodification, consumption, the network society and human identity, human biology, citizenship and new social movements."
Citizenship and the Environment
Andrew Dobson,
2003
"The UK's leading Green Political Theorist presents the first book-length treatment of the relationship between citizenship and the environment. He offers an innovative, international, intergenerational, and justice-based conception of citizenship which will change the way we think about the environment and our responsibilities to it."
Environment and Society: Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues
Charles Harper, 2003
"This integrative book about human-environment relations connects many issues about human societies, ecological systems, and environments with data and perspectives from different fields of study. The book displays the various problems that are currently present in the environment, discusses how individuals are affected by global environmental issues, and how people can have a large impact on the quality of the environment in the future."
Environmental Politics in Japan, Germany, and the United States
Miranda A. Schreurs, 2003
"A decade of climate change negotiations almost ended in failure because of the different policy approaches of the industrialized states. Japan, Germany, and the United States exemplify the deep divisions that exist among states in their approaches to environmental protection. Miranda A. Schreurs uses a variety of case studies to explore why these different policy approaches emerged and what their implications are, examining the differing ideas, actors, and institutions in each state."
Human Rights and the Environment: Conflicts and Norms in a Globalizing
World
Lyuba Zarsky (Ed.), London, Earthscan, 2002
"This collection of essays explores some of the environmental
conflicts generated by globalization. Each contributer, in various ways,
has been charged with examinig what impact a mediation process and
ombudsman would have on specific environmental conflicts. Most of the
book is dedicated to essays on case studies of environmental struggles
in the developing world."
Environmental Policy Integration. Greening Sectoral Policies in
Europe.
A. Lenschow (Ed.), London Eartscan, 2002
"This volume discusses the integration of environmental concerns in sectoral policy making on the EU level and national policy making. Environmental Policy Integration (EPI) represents a first-order operational principle to implement and institutionalize the idea of sustainable development. Possible opportunities and solutions for dealing with the problem of EPI are identified."
Risk, Environment and Society: Ongoing Debates, Current Issues and Future
Prospects (Issues in Society S.) Tim May
(Foreword),
Piet Strydom,
2002
"This book offers an overview and analysis of nuclear, global environmental and biotechnological dangers, threats and hazards in the context of public debates about risk from the 1950s to the present. It considers what impact these risks and debates are having on society, transforming underlying cultural assumptions (for example about nature) but also public communication, social institutions, and even the way society is organized."
Environment and Society (Routledge Introductions to Environment & Society
S.)
E. Cudworth, 2002
"Environment and Society provides a comprehensive and critical account of the ways in which we can think about the relationship between human societies and the environments with which they interact. It argues that human societies are ecologically embedded, and that environments are often socially embedded and constituted."
Sociological Theory and the Environment: Classical Foundations, Contemporary
Insights
Riley Dunlap
(Editor),
Frederick H. Buttel
(Editor),
Peter Dickens
(Editor),
August Gijswijt
(Editor), 2002
"This is a comprehensive survey and assessment of sociological theories of the relations between societies and their "natural" biophysical environment. It touches on and addresses the major perspectives, focal points and debates in environmental sociology - classical and 20th-century social theories, macro-micro linkage issues, globalization and development, reflexive modernization, ecological modernization versus "limits" viewpoints, modernity and postmodernity, risk society, constructionalism-realism, environmental movements/identities, consumption and environment, cultural sociologies of the envronment, and so on."
Politics
and the Environment: From Theory to Practice
Graham Smith,
2002
"Politics and the Environment has established itself as the most comprehensive textbook in this area. The book is designed to introduce students to the key concepts and issues vital to the understanding of environmental problems and their political solutions. The authors investigate the people, movements and organizations involved in the shaping of environmental policy and the barriers hindering the development and introduction of successful solutions to environmental problems.!"
Environment, Energy and Society
Humphrey Craig,
Frederick H. Buttel,
2001
"This work uses many
examples to demonstrate how social theories can be used to understand
environmental issues around the world and in the US - issues such as
world population growth, world hunger, and the energy crisis."
Fatal
Consumption: Rethinking Sustainable Development (Sustainability & the
Environment)
Robert Woollard
(Editor),
Aleck Ostry
(Editor), 2001
"How can we drastically reduce consumption of a consumer society while moving toward a sustainable social system? The contributors to this work connect broad, conceptual thinking and the reality of human activity to provide policy analysis and practical tools for decision-making."
Sustaining Liberal Democracy: Ecological Challenges and Opportunities
John Barry
(Editor),
Marcel Wissenburg
(Editor),
A. Dobson
(Foreword), 2001
"Assuming that liberalism, liberal democracy and the free market are here to
stay, this book asks how sustainability can be interpreted in ways that
respect liberal democratic values and institutions. Among the problems
addressed are the compatibility of liberal proceduralism with substansive
"green" ideals, the existence and potential of eco-friendly principles and
ideas in classical liberal political theory, the role of rights and duties
and of democracy and deliberation, and the "greening" potential of modern
environmental focused practices in liberal democracies."
How Green
Is the City?: Sustainability Assessment and the Management of Urban
Environments
Dimitri Devuyst
(Editor),
Luc Hens
(Editor),
Walter De Lannoy
(Editor), 2001
"Urban lifestyles characterized by high consumption levels, exuberant use of natural resources, excessive production of waste, a widening gap between rich and poor, and a rapid growth of the human population pose a major problem for the future of the species. Therefore urban development must meet the needs of present generations without compromising the needs of future generations. This work introduces "sustainability assessment", a concept that aims to help in steering societies in a more sustainable direction, and applies this concept to cities."
Rethinking Resource Management: Justice, Sustainability and Indigenous
Peoples (Insight Guides)Richard
Howitt,
2001
"This book offers students and practitioners a sophisticated and convincing framework for rethinking the usual approaches to resource management. It uses case studies to argue that professional resource managers do not take responsibility for the social and environmental consequences of their decisions on the often vulnerable indigenous communities they affect. It also discusses the invisibility of indigenous people' values and knowledge within traditional resource management."
Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the South
W.M. Adams,
2001
"It gives a valuable analysis of the theory and practice of sustainable development and suggests that at the start of the new millennium we should think radically about the challenge of sustainability. This fully revised edition discusses: the roots of sustainable development thinking and its evolution in the last three decades of the twentieth century the dominant ideas within mainstream sustainable development (Ecological Modernisation, Market Environmentalism and Environmental Economics) the nature and diversity of alternative ideas about sustainability (for example, ecosocialism, ecofeminism and Deep Ecology) the problems of environmental degradation and the environmental impacts of development strategies for building sustainability in development from above and below."
The
Making of Green Knowledge: Environmental Politics and Cultural
Transformation
Andrew Jamison,
2001
"The Making of Green Knowledge provides a wide ranging introduction to the politics of the environment and the development of environmental knowledge. Focusing in particular on the quest in recent years for more sustainable forms of socio-economic development, it attempts to place environmental politics within a broad historical perspective, and examines the different political strategies and cultural practices that have emerged. The Making of Green Knowledge is a uniquely personal exploration of the relationship between sustainable development, public participation, and cultural transformation. Through a highly accessible mix of theory, practical analysis and personal reflection it seeks to bring the making of green knowledge to life."
The
Environment and Social Policy
Michael Cahill,
2001
"Focusing on human welfare and the environment from a social policy perspective, this text shows how environmental concerns are becoming increasingly central to policy-making and discusses the roles of central and local government in relation to environmental issues. The Environment and Social Policy covers the following contemporary topics: sustainability, Local Agenda 21, green ideas, environmental health, housing and urban development, food, work, globalisation."
Green Politics: Dictatorship or Democracy?
James Radcliffe,
2000
"At
the heart of the green debate are a set of basic contradictions
concerning beliefs and actions. This book reveals the problems
associated with these contradictions, including adherence to
decentralized political forms while accepting authoritarian intervention
on behalf of the environment; a belief that this is the politics of the
new age but in practice there is a split between left and right; a
rejection of the rationalist scientific project; and a reliance on the
lessons of the science of ecology."