Edited by Michael R. Redclift, Emeritus Professor of International Environmental Policy, King’s College, University of London, UK and the late Graham Woodgate, formerly Senior Lecturer in Environmental Sociology, Institute for the Study of the Americas, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK

Acclaim for the first edition:

• Contents:IntroductionGraham WoodgatePART I: CONCEPTS AND THEORIES IN ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGYEditorial CommentaryGraham Woodgate1. The Maturation and Diversification of Environmental Sociology: From Constructivism and Realism to Agnosticism and PragmatismRiley E. Dunlap2. Social Institutions and Environmental ChangeFrederick H. Buttel3. From Environment Sociology to Global Ecosociology: The Dunlap–Buttel DebatesJean-Guy Vaillancourt4. Ecological Modernization as a Social Theory of Environmental ReformArthur P.J. Mol5. Ecological Modernization Theory: Theoretical and Empirical ChallengesRichard York, Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Dietz6. Postconstructivist Political EcologiesArturo Escobar7. Marx’s Ecology and its Historical SignificanceJohn Bellamy Foster8. The Transition Out of Carbon Dependence: The Crises of Environment and MarketsMichael R. Redclift9. Socio-ecological Agency: From ‘Human Exceptionalism’ to Coping with ‘Exceptional’ Global Environmental ChangeDavid Manuel-Navarrete and Christine N. Buzinde10. Ecological Debt: An Integrating Concept for Socio-Environmental ChangeIñaki Barcena Hinojal and Rosa Lago Aurrekoetxea11. The Emergence Model of Environment and SocietyJohn Hannigan12. Peering into the Abyss: Environment, Research and Absurdity in the ‘Age of Stupid’ Raymond L. BryantPART II: SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGYEditorial CommentaryGraham Woodgate13. Animals and UsTed Benton14. Science and the Environment in the Twenty-first CenturySteven Yearley15. New Challenges for Twenty-first Century Environmental Movements: Agricultural Biotechnology and NanotechnologyMaria Kousis16. Sustainable Consumption: Developments, Considerations and New DirectionsEmma D. Hinton and Michael K. Goodman17. Globalisation, Convergence and the Euro-Atlantic Development ModelWolfgang Sachs 18. Environmental Hazards and Human DisastersRaymond Murphy 19. Structural Obstacles to an Effective Post-2012 Global Climate Agreement: Why Social Structure Matters and How Addressing it Can Help Break the ImpasseBradley C. Parks and J. Timmons Roberts20. Environmental Sociology and International Forestry: Historical Overview and Future DirectionsBianca Ambrose-OjiPART III: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETYEditorial CommentaryGraham Woodgate21. The Role of Place in the Margins of SpaceDavid Manuel-Navarrete and Michael R. Redclift22. Society, Environment and Development in AfricaWilliam M. Adams23. Neoliberal Regimes of Environmental Governance: Climate Change, Biodiversity and Agriculture in AustraliaStewart Lockie 24. Environmental Reform in Modernizing ChinaArthur P.J. Mol25. Civic Engagement in Environmental Governance in Central and Eastern EuropeJoAnn Carmin26. A ‘Sustaining Conservation’ for Mexico?Nora HaennIndex

Edited by Michael R. Redclift, Emeritus Professor of International Environmental Policy, King’s College, University of London, UK and the late Graham Woodgate, formerly Senior Lecturer in Environmental Sociology, Institute for the Study of the Americas, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK

Acclaim for the first edition:

• Contents:IntroductionGraham WoodgatePART I: CONCEPTS AND THEORIES IN ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGYEditorial CommentaryGraham Woodgate1. The Maturation and Diversification of Environmental Sociology: From Constructivism and Realism to Agnosticism and PragmatismRiley E. Dunlap2. Social Institutions and Environmental ChangeFrederick H. Buttel3. From Environment Sociology to Global Ecosociology: The Dunlap–Buttel DebatesJean-Guy Vaillancourt4. Ecological Modernization as a Social Theory of Environmental ReformArthur P.J. Mol5. Ecological Modernization Theory: Theoretical and Empirical ChallengesRichard York, Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Dietz6. Postconstructivist Political EcologiesArturo Escobar7. Marx’s Ecology and its Historical SignificanceJohn Bellamy Foster8. The Transition Out of Carbon Dependence: The Crises of Environment and MarketsMichael R. Redclift9. Socio-ecological Agency: From ‘Human Exceptionalism’ to Coping with ‘Exceptional’ Global Environmental ChangeDavid Manuel-Navarrete and Christine N. Buzinde10. Ecological Debt: An Integrating Concept for Socio-Environmental ChangeIñaki Barcena Hinojal and Rosa Lago Aurrekoetxea11. The Emergence Model of Environment and SocietyJohn Hannigan12. Peering into the Abyss: Environment, Research and Absurdity in the ‘Age of Stupid’ Raymond L. BryantPART II: SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGYEditorial CommentaryGraham Woodgate13. Animals and UsTed Benton14. Science and the Environment in the Twenty-first CenturySteven Yearley15. New Challenges for Twenty-first Century Environmental Movements: Agricultural Biotechnology and NanotechnologyMaria Kousis16. Sustainable Consumption: Developments, Considerations and New DirectionsEmma D. Hinton and Michael K. Goodman17. Globalisation, Convergence and the Euro-Atlantic Development ModelWolfgang Sachs 18. Environmental Hazards and Human DisastersRaymond Murphy 19. Structural Obstacles to an Effective Post-2012 Global Climate Agreement: Why Social Structure Matters and How Addressing it Can Help Break the ImpasseBradley C. Parks and J. Timmons Roberts20. Environmental Sociology and International Forestry: Historical Overview and Future DirectionsBianca Ambrose-OjiPART III: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETYEditorial CommentaryGraham Woodgate21. The Role of Place in the Margins of SpaceDavid Manuel-Navarrete and Michael R. Redclift22. Society, Environment and Development in AfricaWilliam M. Adams23. Neoliberal Regimes of Environmental Governance: Climate Change, Biodiversity and Agriculture in AustraliaStewart Lockie 24. Environmental Reform in Modernizing ChinaArthur P.J. Mol25. Civic Engagement in Environmental Governance in Central and Eastern EuropeJoAnn Carmin26. A ‘Sustaining Conservation’ for Mexico?Nora HaennIndex