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An invitation to environmental sociology / created by Michael Mayerfeld Bell Loka L. Ashwood, Isaac Sohn Leslie and Laura Hanson Schlachter,.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, [2021]Edition: Sixth editionDescription: xiv, 489 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781506366012
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GE195 INV
Contents:
Environmental problems and society -- Part I. The material -- Health and justice -- Consumption and materialism -- Money and markets -- Technology and science -- Population and development -- Part II. The ideal -- The ideology of environmental domination -- The ideology of environmental concern -- The human nature of nature -- Part III. The practical -- Mobilizing the just ecological society -- Transitioning to the just ecological society -- Living in the just ecological society.
Summary: "An Invitation to Environmental Sociology is a text that helped define this market and course when it was first published, and continues to invite students to delve into this rapidly changing field. Written in a lively, engaging style, Michael Bell, Loka Ashwood, and new coauthors Isaac Sohn Leslie and Laura Hanson Schlachter, cover the broad range of topics in environmental sociology with a personal passion rarely seen in sociology texts. The book's unique organization explores three different kinds of questions about interactions between humans and the natural world: the material, the ideal, and the practical"--
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Core Collection Main Library Core Collection GE195 INV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 163037 Available BK151152
Book Book Main Library Open Shelf GE195 INV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 161545 Available BK149428

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Environmental problems and society -- Part I. The material -- Health and justice -- Consumption and materialism -- Money and markets -- Technology and science -- Population and development -- Part II. The ideal -- The ideology of environmental domination -- The ideology of environmental concern -- The human nature of nature -- Part III. The practical -- Mobilizing the just ecological society -- Transitioning to the just ecological society -- Living in the just ecological society.

"An Invitation to Environmental Sociology is a text that helped define this market and course when it was first published, and continues to invite students to delve into this rapidly changing field. Written in a lively, engaging style, Michael Bell, Loka Ashwood, and new coauthors Isaac Sohn Leslie and Laura Hanson Schlachter, cover the broad range of topics in environmental sociology with a personal passion rarely seen in sociology texts. The book's unique organization explores three different kinds of questions about interactions between humans and the natural world: the material, the ideal, and the practical"--

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