Environmental Sociology

John Hannigan's definitive textbook offers a distinctive, balanced coverage of environmental issues, policies, and action. This revised fourth edition has been expanded and fully updated to explore contemporary developments and issues within global environmental sociology.

Autorentext

John Hannigan is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Scarborough, Canada. His research focuses on environmental issues, the geopolitics of oceans and urban political economy. He is the author of three previous editions of Environmental Sociology (Routledge, 1995, 2006 and 2014), Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern City (Routledge, 1998), Disasters Without Borders: The International Politics of Natural Disasters (2012), The Geopolitics of Deep Oceans (2015), and Rise of the Spectacular: America in the 1950s (Routledge, 2021). He is also co-editor (with Greg Richard) of The SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies (2017).

Inhalt

1. Planet in peril, 2. Environmental sociology: key perspectives and controversies, 3. Social construction of environmental issues and problems, 4. Environmental discourse, 5. Media and environmental communication, 6. Science, knowledge and environmental problems, 7. Risk construction, 8. Biodiversity loss: the successful "career" of a global environmental problem, 9. Fear of fracking, 10. Conclusion