Description
This book marks a watershed in the social sciences. The qualitative, critical perspective of sociology and allied disciplines challenges the technocentric `managerialism' which dominates environmental policy, its discourse and its impact.
The authors explore the relationship between social theory and sustainability in an attempt to transend technical rhetoric and embrace a broader understanding of `nature'.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction, Ted Benton, Michael Redclift; Chapter 2 Biology and Social Theory in the Environmental Debate, Ted Benton; Chapter 3 Sociology and the Environment, Michael Redclift, Graham Woodgate; Chapter 4 The Limits to Neoclassicism, Michael Jacobs; Chapter 5 Running out of Time, Barbara Adam; Chapter 6 Gender Analysis and Environmentalisms, Cecile Jackson; Chapter 7 Social Movements and Environmental Change, Steven Yearley; Chapter 8 Scientific Knowledge and the Global Environment, Brian Wynne; Chapter 9 Facing Global Warming, Angela Liberatore; Chapter 10 Global Sociology and Global Environmental Change, Leslie Sklair; Chapter 11 Environmental Sociology And Global Environmental Change, Frederick Buttel, Peter Taylor; Chapter 12 Sustaining Developments in Environmental Sociology, Elizabeth Shove;
