Environment, Energy and Society Exemplary Works

by Humphrey, Craig R.; Lewis, Tammy L.; Buttel, Frederick H.

• ISBN13: 9780534579579
• ISBN10: 0534579574
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-18
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This book was designed as a reader to accompany Humphrey, Lewis, and Buttel, Environment, Energy, and Society: A New Synthesis (2002). The reader is divided into eight parts exploring issues and topics central to the study of the environment, rural and urban problems.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction: The Development of Environmental Sociology	1	(16)
PART I Exploring Environmental Sociology	17	(56)
Environmental Inequalities: Literature Review and Proposals for New Directions in Research and Theory	23	(16)
Andrew Szasz
Michael Meuser
Digging Deeper: Mining-Dependent Regions in Historical Perspective	39	(16)
William R. Freudenburg
Scott Frickel
Ozone Entrepreneurs and the Building of Global Coalitions	55	(18)
Nancy Reichman
Penelope Canan
PART II Social Theory and the Environment	73	(64)
Social Institutions and Environmental Change	83	(14)
Frederick H. Buttel
Struggling with Human Exemptionalism: The Rise, Decline and Revitalization of Environmental Sociology	97	(23)
Riley E. Dunlap
William R. Catton, Jr.
The Crisis of the Earth	120	(17)
John Bellamy Foster
PART III Population and the Environment	137	(38)
Demographic Consequences of Declining Fertility	143	(4)
John Bongaarts
The Bangladesh Fertility Decline: An Interpretation	147	(14)
John C. Caldwell
Barkat-e-Khuda
Bruce Caldwell
Indrani Pieris
Pat Caldwell
Women's Rights and Reproductive Choice: Rethinking the Connections	161	(14)
Ruth Dixon-Mueller
PART IV The Struggle Over Hunger	175	(44)
Ending Hunger in Developing Countries	184	(16)
Frederick H. Buttel
Can the Growing Human Population Feed Itself?	200	(7)
John Bongaarts
Global Food Politics	207	(12)
Philip McMichael
PART V Energy and the Environment	219	(54)
Climate Change and Society: Speculation, Construction and Scientific Explanation	229	(25)
Eugene A. Rosa
Thomas Dietz
Global Inequality and Climate Change	254	(8)
J. Timmons Roberts
Global Environmental Change in the News: 1987--90 versus 1992--96	262	(11)
Allan Mazur
PART VI The Environmental Movement	273	(72)
A New Mass Issue Is Born	280	(31)
Andrew Szasz
The Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement: 1960--2000---A Review	311	(15)
Bill Devall
Global Environmentalism: A Challenge to the Postmaterialism Thesis?	326	(19)
Steven R. Brechin
Willett Kempton
PART VII The Sociology of Sustainable Development	345	(46)
Promoting Big Business at Rio	353	(8)
Pratap Chatterjee
Matthias Finger
Organizing for Sustainable Development: The Biodiversity Crisis and an Encompassing Organization in Esmeraldas, Ecuador	361	(11)
Thomas K. Rudel
Misrepresenting Communities: The Politics of Community-Based Rural Ecotourism in Gales Point Manatee, Belize	372	(19)
Jill M. Belsky
PART VIII Environmental Futures	391	(36)
Ecological Modernization: Industrial Transformations and Environmental Reform	401	(11)
Arthur P.J. Mol
The Treadmill of Production and the Environmental State	412	(15)
Allan Schnaiberg
David N. Pellow
Adam Weinberg
Bibliography for Introductory Discussions	427