The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology

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The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology is a go-to resource for cutting-edge research in the field. This two-volume work covers the rich theoretic foundations of the sub-discipline, as well as novel approaches and emerging areas of research that add vitality and momentum to the discipline. Over the course of sixty chapters, the authors featured in this work reach new levels of theoretical depth, incorporating a global scope and diversity of cases. This book explores the broad scope of crucial disciplinary ideas and areas of research, extending its investigation to the trajectories of thought that led to their unfolding. This unique work serves as an invaluable tool for all those working in the nexus of environment and society. Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Foreword • Riley E. Dunlap Introduction Part I: Theory in Environmental Sociology 1 Classical Theory and Environmental Sociology: Toward Deeper and Stronger Roots • Hannah Holleman 2 Globalizing Environmental Sociology • Rolf Lidskog and Stewart Lockie 3 An Embodied Materialist Sociology • Ariel Salleh 4 The Environmental Sociology of the Good: Nature, Faith, and the Bourgeois Transition • Michael M. Bell 5 Microsociological Perspectives in Environmental Sociology • Bradley H. Brewster and Antony J. Puddephatt Part II: The Economy and Environmental Sociology 6 Material Worlds: Understanding the Relationship of Capital and Ecology • Stefano B. Longo and Richard York 7 Green Economies and Community Wellbeing • Yifei Li and Gary Paul Green 8 Beyond the Limits to Growth: Neoliberal Natures and the Green Economy • Patrick Bresnihan 9 The Ecosocialist Alternative • Michael Löwy 10 Commons, Power, and (Counter) Hegemony • Gustavo A. García-López 11 Emplacing Sustainability in a Post-Capitalist World • Elizabeth S. Barron Part III: Culture and Environmental Sociology 12 Media and the Environmental Movement in a Digital Age • John Hannigan 13 National Parks and (Neo) Colonialisms • Maano Ramutsindela 14 Post Carbon Transition Futuring: For a Reconstructive Turn in the Environmental Social Sciences? • Damian White and J. Timmons Roberts 15 Outer Space and New Frontiers to Environmental Imaginations • James S. Ormrod 16 New Territory for Environmental Sociology: Environmental Philosophy and Nature-Based Tourism • Guojie Zhang, James E. S. Higham, and Julia N. Albrecht Part IV: Politics, Power, State 17 Conflicting Environmental Imaginaries in Post-Apartheid South Africa • Jacklyn Cock 18 The Growth in International Audit Culture: Achieving Agricultural Sustainability Inside a World of Measures? • Hugh Campbell 19 Political Ecologies of State Land Management • John Zinda 20 Green Crime and the Treadmill of Production • Michael A. Long, Michael J. Lynch, and Paul B. Stretesky 21 Governing Science and Technology: From the Linear Model to Responsible Research and Innovation • Phil Macnaghten 22 The Paradox of Public Knowledge in Environmental Sociology • Noah Weeth Feinstein 23 Relational Resilience and the Making of Diverse Worlds • James Hale and Michael Carolan Part V: Social Justice 24 Expanding Critical and Radical Approaches to Environmental Justice • David N. Pellow 25 Development Strategies and Environmental Inequalities in Brazil • Henri Acselrad 26 Rural Estrangement: Roadblocks and Roundabouts to Justice • John C. Canfield, Jr., Karl Galloway, and Loka Ashwood 27 Environmental Justice and Capitalism • Leslie King 28 Ecological Economics and Environmental Sociology: A Social Power Structures Approach to Environmental Justice in Economic Systems • Phillip Warsaw Index