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Sociology and the Environment: A Critical Introduction to Society, Nature and Knowledge

ISBN: 978-0-7456-1359-8
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224 pages
May 2001, Polity
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Preface.

Introduction.

Chapter 1: Sustainability as Social Challenge.

Chapter 2: The Risk Society Thesis: The End of the World as We Know It?.

Chapter 3: Science and the Social Construction of Environmental Threat.

Chapter 4: Risks in Context: The Local Construction of Environmental Issues.

Chapter 5: Institutional Judgements and Contested Decisions: The Governance of Environmental Problems.

Chapter 6: Kamikazes and Chromosomes: Sociological Perspectives on Technology.

Chapter 7: Society, Nature, Knowledge: Co-constructing the Social and the Natural.

Notes.

References.

Index.

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