Environmental Sociology Books

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11. The Ecological Modernisation Reader

    Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice

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

    Structural environmental reform by firms and industries, governmental and intergovernmental agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and others is a worldwide phenomenon and the focus of this definitive collection. Includes a comprehensive introduction to and overview of Ecological...

    Published July 16th 2009 by Routledge
12. Fair Trade

    The Challenges of Transforming Globalization

    Edited by Laura T. Raynolds, Douglas Murray, John Wilkinson

    This book explores the challenges and potential of Fair Trade, one of the world’s most dynamic efforts to enhance global social justice and environmental sustainability through market based social change. Fair Trade links food consumers and agricultural producers across the Global North/ South...

    Published May 9th 2007 by Routledge
13. Mediating Nature

    By Nils Lindahl Elliot

    Series: International Library of Sociology

    Mediating Nature provides a history of the present nature of mass mediation. It examines the ways in which a number of discourses, technologies and institutions have historically shaped the current ways of imagining nature in the mass media. Where much of the existing research treats mass mediation...

    Published September 27th 2006 by Routledge
14. Environmental Sociology

    2nd Edition

    By John Hannigan

    This new edition of John Hannigan's well-known and respected text has been thoroughly revised to reflect recent conceptual and empirical advances in environmental sociology. The book offers a distinctive and even-handed treatment of environmental issues and debates, integrating European theoretical...

    Published March 29th 2006 by Routledge
15. Cultures of Disaster

    Society and Natural Hazard in the Philippines

    By Greg Bankoff

    In this fascinating and comprehensive study, Greg Bankoff traces the history of natural hazards in the Philippines from the records kept by the Spanish colonisers to the 'Calamitous Nineties', and assesses the effectiveness of the relief mechanisms that have evolved to cope with these occurrences....

    Published September 11th 2002 by Routledge
16. Environmental Sociology

    A Social Constructionist Perspective

    By John Hannigan

    John Hannigan argues that society's unwillingness to recognize and solve environmental problems rests primarily upon the claims making activities of a number of 'issue entrepreneurs' in science, mass media and politics....

    Published October 25th 1995 by Routledge