The International Handbook of Environmental Sociology by M. R. Redclift, Graham Woodgate

By M. R. Redclift, Graham Woodgate

The overseas instruction manual of Environmental Sociology is a massive interdisciplinary reference paintings at the constructing box of environmental sociology. It includes over 30 in particular commissioned essays by means of best students from worldwide. those unique essays learn quite a lot of environmental concerns within the built and constructing global in addition to previously centrally deliberate international locations to current a really overseas standpoint. jointly they examine thought and ideas, philosophical and empirical concerns in addition to supplying useful coverage suggestion. The contributions diversity from basic exams to zone particular research, and supply overseas comparisons of environmental difficulties. within the first half the principal concentration is on theoretical and conceptual concerns. within the moment half the authors give some thought to the various significant parts of curiosity within the box together with gender, environmental awareness, monetary development and politics. eventually, the 3rd half makes a speciality of specific analyses of particular areas and nations. This finished reference paintings offers a state of the art research of the evolution of environmental sociology, its present nation and destiny clients. Spanning a large variety of concerns, and provided from an interdisciplinary viewpoint, this guide will function a benchmark for destiny paintings within the social sciences.

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Not surprisingly, the bulk of this early work focused on the environmental movement, public attitudes towards environmental issues, environmental policy making and the development of environmental quality as a social problem. This work involved the application of mainstream sociological perspectives, especially analyses of the importance of various claims-making activities in generating societal interest in environmental degradation, to environmental topics. It was a ‘normal science’ approach and was labelled the ‘sociology of environmental issues’ (Dunlap and Catton, 1979).

Moreover, at least in Europe, environmental issues have begun to receive considerable attention and are increasingly assigned theoretical import in the larger discipline. Overall, our hope for increased sociological attention to the environment has been exceeded. Our plea for replacing the discipline’s human exemptionalism paradigm with an ecological one is more difficult to assess, in part because it was inherently more ambiguous as well 34 Concepts and theories in environmental sociology as provocative.

Taking a political economy approach to irrigation technology in the sub-continent, Singh traces the history of its development in the pre- and post-colonial eras of India’s history, using a Marxist framework to examine the implications of statist intervention in irrigation development and ecological change. He concludes that there has been a continuity in the logic determining the choice of irrigation technology and highlights the differing reasons for investing in large-scale dams during both the colonial and independence eras.

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