Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology

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Acknowledgments
About the Contributors

An Introduction to Environmental Sociology, Kenneth A. Gould and Tammy L. Lewis

Part 1. Theory

Lesson 1: The Social Construction of Nature: Of Computers, Butterflies, Dogs, and Trucks, Stella M. Capek
Lesson 2: Theories in Environmental Sociology, Justin Myers

Part 2. Systemic Causes of Environmental Disruption

Lesson 3: The State and Policy: Imperialism, Exclusion, and Ecological Violence as State Policy, David Naguib Pellow
Lesson 4: Labor Productivity and the Environment, Allan Schnaiberg and Kenneth A. Gould
Lesson 5: Corporate Power: The Role of the Global Media in Shaping What We Know About the Environment, Elizabeth H. Campbell
Lesson 6: The Science of Nature and the Nature of Science, Richard York
Lesson 7: Technological Change and the Environment, Kenneth A. Gould
Lesson 8: Population, Demography, and the Environment, Diane C. Bates
Lesson 9: Energy, Society, and the Environment, Shannon Elizabeth Bell

Part 3. Some Social Consequences of Environmental Disruption

Lesson 10: Environmental Inequality and Environmental Justice, Michael Mascarenhas
Lesson 11: The Sociology of Environmental Health, Norah Mackendrick
Lesson 12: Producing and Consuming Food: Justice and Sustainability in a Globalized World?, Jason Konefal and Maki Hatanaka
Lesson 13: From Farms to Factories: The Social and Environmental Consequences of Industrial Swine Production in North Carolina, Adam Driscoll and Bob Edwards
Lesson 14: Understanding Disaster Vulnerability: Floods and Hurricanes, Nicole Youngman
Lesson 15: The Sociology of Climate Change, Laura McKinney

Part 4. Some Social Responses to Environmental Disruption

Lesson 16: Normalizing the Unthinkable: Climate Denial and Everyday Life, Kari Marie Norgaard
Lesson 17: Labor and the Environment, Brian K. Obach
Lesson 18: Environmental Social Movements, Jill Lindsey Harrison
Lesson 19: Environmental Movements in the Global South, Tammy L. Lewis
Lesson 20: The Paradoxes of Sustainable Development: Focus on Ecotourism, Kenneth A. Gould and Tammy L. Lewis

Conclusion: Unanswered Questions and the Future of Environmental Sociology, Kenneth A. Gould and Tammy L. Lewis

Index/Glossary

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