Sociology and the Environment: A Critical Introduction to Society, Nature and KnowledgeISBN: 978-0-7456-1359-8
Hardcover
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.