The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology: Volume 2

Michael Bell is Chair and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of City of the Good: Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for What Is Right and the widely used environmental sociology textbook, An Invitation to Environmental Sociology, now in its sixth edition (2020). Michael Carolan is a Professor of Sociology at Colorado State University and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Affairs for the College of Liberal Arts. He has published over 200 peer review articles and more than a dozen books. Katharine Legun is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Otago in New Zealand. Her work considers how plants, measurement systems, and new artificial intelligence technology shapes ecological and economic agency, particularly in agri-food systems. Julie C. Keller is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Rhode Island. Her research and teaching focus on rural inequality, agricultural labor, farmers, and immigration. She is the author of Milking in the Shadows: Migrants and Mobility in America's Dairyland (2019).

• Part I. Methods; 1. Re-compos(t)ing the Ghosts of Sociologies Past: Towards More Cosmoecological Sociologies Martha McMahon & Chelsea Power; 2. On Discourse Intensive Approaches to Environmental Decision-Making: Applying Social Theory to Practice Steven E. Daniels & Gregg B. Walker; 3. Community-Based Research Randy Stoecker; 4. Using Geographic Data in Environmental Sociology Rachel A. Rosenfeld & Katherine J. Curtis;Part II. Embodied Environmental Sociology; 5. Strangers on the Land? Rural LGBTQs and Queer Sustainabilities Julie Keller; 6. Masculinity and Environment Kathryn Gregory Anderson; 7. Toxicity, Health, and Environment Jennifer S. Carrera & Phil Brown; 8. The Environment's Absence in Medicine: Mainstream Medical Coverage of Leukemia Manuel Vallée; Part III: Beyond the Human. 9. Interventions offered by Actor-Network Theory, Assemblage Theory, and New Materialisms for Environmental Sociology Katharine Legun & Abbi Virens; 10. Plants and Philosophy, Plants or Philosophy Michael Marder; 11. Animals and Society: An Island in Japan Margo DeMello; Part IV. Sustainability and Climate Change; 12: Possibilities and Politics in Imagining Degrowth Valerie Fournier; 13. Accidental Environmentalists: Examining the Effect of Pro-Environmental Behavior on Social Status Emily Huddart Kennedy; 14. Sustainability Cultures: Exploring the Relationships Between Cultural Attributes and Sustainability Outcomes Janet Stephenson; 15. Socio-Ecological Sustainability and New Forms of Governance: Community Forestry and Citizen Involvement with Trees, Woods, and Forests Bianca Ambrose-Oji; 16. Carbon Markets and International Environmental Governance John Chung-En & Mark H. Cooper; 17. The Multi-Level Governance Challenge of Climate Change in Brazil Leila da Costa Ferreira; Part V. Resources ; 18. Enclosing Water: Privatization, Commodification, and Access Daniel Jaffee; 19. Speech is Silver, Silence is Gold in the Fracking Zone Debra J. Davidson; 20. Environmental Sociology and the Genomic Revolution Valerie Berseth & Ralph Matthews; 21. The Future is Co-Managed: Promises and Problems of Collaborative Governance of Natural Resources Nathan Young; Part VI: Food and Agriculture; 22. Future and Food: New Technologies, Old Political Debates Michael Carolan; 23. Eating Our Way to a Sustainable Future? Josée Johnston & Anelyse M. Weiler; 24. Neoliberal Globalization and Beyond: Food, Farming and the Environment Geoffrey Lawrence & Kiah Smith; 25. The Sociology of Environmental Morality: Examples from Agri-Food Paul V. Stock; Part VII: Social Movements; 26. Alternative Technologies and Emancipatory Environmental Practice Chelsea Schelly; 27. The Global Fair Trade Movement: For Whom, By Whom, How, and What Next Elizabeth A. Bennett; 28. Possibilities for Degrowth: A Radical Alternative to the Neoliberal Restructuring of Growth-Societies Barbara Muraca; 29. Achieving Environmental Justice: Lessons from the Global South Pearly Wong; 30. Conclusion: Envisioning Futures with Environmental Sociology.