ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY: Classical Foundations, Contemporary Insights

Environmental Sociology is a comprehensive survey and assessment of sociological theories of the relations between societies and their “natural” biophysical environments. This book addresses virtually all of the major perspectives, focal points, and debates in environmental sociology today—classical and twentieth-century social theories, macro-micro linkage issues, globalization and development, reflexive modernization, ecological modernization versus “limits” viewpoints, modernity and post modernity, risk society, constructionalism-realism, environmental movements/ identities, consumption and environment, cultural sociologies of the environment, and so on. At the same time, the book aims to go beyond an inventory of environmental sociological theory. Environmental Sociology stresses how new ground can be broken in the articulation of environmental sociology with major classical and contemporary sociological theories.