Environmental Sociology Books

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1. Environmental Destruction and Psychosocial Breakdown: Health and human development

   By Roberto De Vogli

   Global warming and the depletion of natural resources are widely recognized as the major threats to the future of industrial society and the survival of human species. However, this environmental destruction is paired with an often-overlooked deterioration of psychosocial wellbeing. In spite of...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-49069-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Barcoding Nature: Shifting Taxonomic Practices in an Age of Biodiversity Loss

   By Claire Waterton, Rebecca Ellis, Brian Wynne

   This book is based on six years of ethnographic research and documentary analysis carried out by the authors, on changing contemporary practices in the identification and the classification of natural species. It assumes from the outset that the practices of knowing nature observed cannot be...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-55479-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change

   Edited by Saturnino Borras Jr., Philip McMichael, Ian Scoones

   This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. Contributions are based on fresh empirical materials from different parts of the world. The book starts with four key questions in agrarian political economy: Who owns what?...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-61320-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Confronting Climate Change

   By Constance Lever-Tracy

   What are the manifest and likely future consequences of climate change? How will the world respond to the challenges of climate change in the twenty-first century? How should people think about confronting the politics of climate change? In this highly accessible introduction to the predicted...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-57623-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Critical Perspectives in Rural Development Studies

   Edited by Saturnino M. Borras Jr.

   Agrarian transformations within and across countries have been significantly and dynamically altered during the past few decades compared to previous eras, provoking a variety of reactions from rural poor communities worldwide. The recent convergence of various crises – financial, food, energy and...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-59177-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society

   Edited by Constance Lever-Tracy

   As the time-scales of natural change accelerate and converge with those of society, Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society takes the reader into largely uncharted territory in its exploration of anthropogenic climate change. Current material is used to highlight the global impact of this...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-54476-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Transitions to Sustainable Development: New Directions in the Study of Long Term Transformative Change

   By John Grin, Jan Rotmans, Johan Schot

   Over the past few decades, there has been a growing concern about the social and environmental risks which have come along with the progress achieved through a variety of mutually intertwined modernization processes. In recent years these concerns are transformed into a widely-shared sense of...

   January 2010 | 978-0-415-87675-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. The Tsunami of 2004 in Sri Lanka: Impacts and Policy in the Shadow of Civil War

   Edited by Ragnhild Lund, Piers Blaikie

   This book is based on empirical research in Sri Lanka conducted after the catastrophic tsunami which hit the country in December 2004. The aims of the research have been to develop new knowledge on post-crisis reconstruction and recovery work, on how to bridge the knowledge gap between researchers...

   October 2009 | 978-0-415-55909-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   The Ecological Modernisation Reader: Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice

   Edited by Arthur P.J. Mol, David A Sonnenfeld, Gert Spaargaren

   Environmental reform by governmental, intergovernmental agencies, private firms and industries and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is a worldwide phenomenon. This definitive collection showcases an introduction to Ecological Modernisation Theory; state-of-the-art review essays by key...

   July 2009 | 978-0-415-45370-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. A Crisis of Waste?: Understanding the Rubbish Society

    By Martin O'Brien

    This book takes a measured look at the 'crisis of waste' in modern society and it does so historically, sociologically and critically. It tells stories about past and present ‘crises’ of waste and puts them in their appropriate social and industrial contexts. From Charles Dickens to Don...

    2007 | 978-0-415-96098-4 | Hardback (Routledge)