Invitation to Environmental Sociology Third Edition / Edition 3

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“I love your book, it is one of the most fascinating I have ever read (certainly the most riveting textbook). The ideas you present are so on key… I just wanted to let you know how incredible your book is. Thank you for writing it.”

—Student at the University of Massachusetts, Boston

Bringing social and environmental interactions together as an ecological dialogue

The Third Edition of An Invitation to Environmental Sociology brings out the sociology of environmental possibility, inviting students to delve into this rapidly changing field. Written in a lively, engaging style, author Michael Bell covers the broad range of topics in environmental sociology with a personal passion rarely seen in sociology texts. With extensively updated material on our environmental situation, this edition challenges readers with the complexity of environmental puzzles.

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"This is the perfect text for an introductory course in Environmental Sociology. "
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781412956550
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications
  • Publication date: 6/11/2008
  • Edition description: Third Edition
  • Edition number: 3
  • Pages: 384
  • Product dimensions: 6.90 (w) x 10.00 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Table of Contents

1. Environmental Problems and Society Part I: The Material
2. Consumption and Materialism
3. Money and Machines
4. Population and Development
5. Body and Health Part II: The Ideal
6. The Ideology of Environmental Domination
7. The Ideology of Environmental Concern
8. The Human Nature of Nature
9. The Rationality of Risk Part III: The Practical
10. Mobilizing the Ecological Society
11. Governing the Ecological Society

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