An invitation to environmental sociology / Michael Mayerfeld Bell, Isaac Sohn Leslie, Laura Hanson Schlachter, Loka L. Ashwood.
Material type: TextPublisher: Thousand Oaks, Califorinia : SAGE Publications, Inc, [2021]Edition: Sixth editionDescription: xiv, 489 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781506366012
- 363.7 23 BEL
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | Prof. Ram Dayal Munda Central Library General Stacks | Social problems & social services | 363.7 BEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 82124 |
Includes bibliographical references.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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