Sage Handbook Of Environment And Society, The

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'This is a monumental and timely contribution to scholarship on society and environments. The handbook makes it easy and compelling for anyone to learn about that scholarship in its full manifestations and as represented by some of the most highly respected researchers and thinkers in the English-speaking world. It is wide-reaching in scope and far-reaching in its implications for public and private action, a definite must for serious researchers and their libraries' - Bonnie J. McCay, Professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA 'This is the desert island book for anyone interested in the relationship between society and the environment. The editors have assembled a masterful collection of contributions on every conceivable dimension of environmental thinking in the social sciences and humanities. No library should be without it!' - Associate Professor Robyn Eckersley, School of Political Science, Sociology and Criminology, University of Melbourne The Handbook of Environment and Society focuses on the interactions between people, societies and economies, and the state of nature and the environment.Editorially integrated but written from multi-disciplinary perspectives, The Handbook of Environment and Society is organised in seven sections: - Environmental thought: past and present - Valuing the environment - Knowledges and knowing - Political economy of environmental change - Environmental technologies - Redesigning natures - Institutions and policies for influencing the environment Key themes include: locations where the environment-society relation is most acute: where, for example, there are few natural resources or where industrialization is unregulated; the discussion of these issues at different scales: local, regional, national, and global; the cost of damage to resources; and the relation between principal actors in the environment-society nexus. Aimed at an international audience of academics, research students, researchers, practitioners and policy makers, The Handbook on Environment and Society presents readers in social science and natural science with a manual of the past, present and future of environment-society links.

Review:
'Fifty-eight international (e.g., from Australia, England, India, Germany, Sweden, US) physical, biological, environmental, and social scientists have contributed authoritatively insightful and instructive perspectives and assessments of the myriad environment-society links confronting the contemporary milieu.' -- E.J. Kormondy, chancellor-emeritus Choice Magazine 20080807

Table of Contents:
Introduction to Environment and Society - Jules Pretty, Andrew S. Ball, Ted Benton, Julia S. Guivant, David R. Lee, David Orr, Max J. Pfeffer and Hugh Ward PART 1: ENVIRONMENTAL THOUGHT: PAST AND PRESENT From Locke and Rousseau to Darwin and Wallace - Ted Benton Humans and Nature Anarchism, Libertarianism and Environmentalism - Damian F. White and Gideon Kossoff Anti-authoritarian Thought and the Search for Self-organising Societies Ecofeminism - Mary Mellor Linking Gender and Ecology Deep Ecology - Ted Benton Greening the Left? From Marx to World-system Theory - Ted Benton Human Relationships, Nature, and the Built Environment - Warwick Fox Problems that any General Ethics must be able to Address Anti-Environmentalism - Damian F. White, Chris P. Wilbert and Alan Rudy Prometheans, Contrarians and Beyond PART 2: VALUING THE ENVIRONMENT Fundamental Economic Questions for Choosing Environmental Management Instruments - Thomas D. Crocker Valuing Preferences regarding Environmental Change - Ian J. Bateman Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services - Randall A. Kramer Assessing Environment-Development Tradeoffs - David R. Lee A Developing Country Perspective Water Policy, Economics, and the EU Framework Directive - Joe Morris PART 3: KNOWLEDGES AND KNOWING Ecological Design and Education - David W. Orr Knowing Systems and the Environment - Richard Bawden Volunteer Environmental Monitoring, Knowledge Creation and Citizen-scientist Interaction - Max Pfeffer and Linda Wagenet Environmental Ethics - Val Plumwood Biocultural Diversity and Sustainability - Luisa Maffi PART 4: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE Representative Democracy and Environmental Problem Solution - Ron Johnson Political Ecology from Landscapes to Genomes - Ron J. Herring Science and Interests Protest Movements, Environmental Activism and Environmentalism in the United Kingdom - Steven Griggs and David Howarth Faces of the Sustainability Transition - Tim O'Riordan The Greening of Business - Christina Page and Amory Lovins Opportunity or Contradiction? PART 5: ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES The Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change - Thomas J. Wilbanks and Patricia Romero-Lankao Healthy Environments - Howard Frumkin Air pollution - Ian Colbeck History of Actions and Effectiveness of Change Terrestrial Environments, Soils and Bioremediation - Andrew S. Ball Regenerating Aquaculture - Stuart W. Bunting Enhancing Aquatic Resources Management, Livelihoods and Conservation Shopping for Green Food in Globalizing Supermarkets - Peter Oosterveer, Julia Guivant and Gert Spaargaren Sustainability at the Consumption Junction PART 6: REDESIGNING NATURES Healthy Ecosystems - David J. Rapport An Evolving Paradigm Environment and Human Security - Laura Little and Chris Cocklin Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems - Jules Pretty Animals and Society - Henry Buller and Carol Morris Social Change and Conservation - Madhav Gadgil Coral Reefs and People - Dave Smith, Sarah Pilgrim and Leanne Cullen PART 7: INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES FOR INFLUENCING THE ENVIRONMENT The Role of Science and Scientists in Environmental Policy - Jon Hastie Integrated Social-ecological Systems and Adaptive Governance for Ecosystem Services - Carl Folke, Johan Colding, Per Olsson, and Thomas Hahn Contested Ground in Nature Protection - Steven R. Brechin, Grant Murray and Charles Benjamin Current Challenges and Opportunities in Community-based Natural Resources and Protected Areas Management Institutions, Collective Action and Effective Forest Management - Harini Nagendra and Elinor Ostrom Learning from Studies in Nepal The Precautionary Principle in Environmental Policies - Albert Weale Environmental Risks and Public Perceptions - Ulrich Beck and Cordula Kropp