Environmental SociologyRoutledge, 26 mrt 2014 - 258 pagina's The third edition of John Hannigan’s classic undergraduate text has been fully updated and revised to highlight contemporary trends and controversies within global environmental sociology. Environmental Sociology offers a distinctive, balanced treatment of environmental issues, reconciling Hannigan’s much-cited model of the social construction of environmental problems and controversies with an environmental justice perspective that stresses inequality and toxic threats to local communities. |
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1 Planet in peril | 1 |
key perspectives and controversies | 18 |
3 Social construction of environmental issues and problems | 50 |
4 Environmental discourse | 72 |
5 Media and environmental communication | 100 |
6 Science knowledge and environmental problems | 120 |
7 Risk construction | 139 |
the successful career of a global environmental problem | 157 |
9 Fear of fracking | 177 |
10 Conclusion | 191 |
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Name index | 232 |
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action activists activities agenda American approach argues attention become biodiversity biological called causes Chapter claims claims-makers climate change concept concern conservation construction contested Convention countries created crisis critical cultural debate discourse diversity dominant early ecological economic ecosystem effect emergence energy environment environmental problems especially established evidence example existence Finally findings forest fracking frames further future global warming groups growth human identified important increasing industrial initially institutions interest issues justice knowledge lead less levels Limits loss major means movement nature notably notes observes organizations plant political pollution population present production protection provides recent relations result rhetoric risk role scientific scientists shale significant social society sociology story sustainable theory threat United University