Previous ed.: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Concepts and theories in environmental sociology. Introduction ; Editorial Commentary / Graham Woodgate -- Maturation and Diversification of Environmental Sociology : From Constructivism and Realism to Agnosticism and Pragmatism / Riley E. Dunlap -- Social Institutions and Environmental Change / Frederick H. Buttel -- From Environment Sociology to Global Ecosociology : The Dunlap-Buttel Debates / Jean-Guy Vaillancourt -- Ecological Modernization as a Social Theory of Environmental Reform / Arthur P.J. Mol -- Ecological Modernization Theory : Theoretical and Empirical Challenges / Richard York, Eugene A. Rosa, Thomas Dietz -- Postconstructivist Political Ecologies / Arturo Escobar -- Marx's Ecology and its Historical Significance / John Bellamy Foster -- Transition Out of Carbon Dependence: The Crises of Environment and Markets / Michael R. Redclift -- Socio-ecological Agency : From 'Human Exceptionalism' to Coping with 'Exceptional' Global Environmental Change / David Manuel-Navarrete, Christine N. Buzinde -- Ecological Debt : An Integrating Concept for Socio-Environmental Change / Iñaki Barcena Hinoja,d Rosa Lago Aurrekoetxea -- Emergence Model of Environment and Society / John Hannigan -- Peering into the Abyss : Environment, Research and Absurdity in the 'Age of Stupid' / Raymond L. Bryant --

Substantive issues for environmental sociology. Editorial Commentary / Graham Woodgate -- Animals and Us / Ted Benton -- Science and the Environment in the Twenty first Century / Steven Yearley -- New Challenges for Twenty first Century Environmental Movements : Agricultural Biotechnology and Nanotechnology / Maria Kousis -- Sustainable Consumption : Developments, Considerations and New Directions / Emma D. Hinton, Michael K. Goodman -- Globalisation, Convergence and the Euro Atlantic Development Model / Wolfgang Sachs -- Environmental Hazards and Human Disasters / Raymond Murphy -- Structural Obstacles to an Effective Post 2012 Global Climate Agreement : Why Social Structure Matters and How Addressing it Can Help Break the Impasse / Bradley C. Parks, J. Timmons Roberts -- Environmental Sociology and International Forestry : Historical Overview and Future Directions / Bianca Ambrose-Oji --

International perspectives on environment and society. Editorial Commentary / Graham Woodgate -- Role of Place in the Margins of Space / David Manuel-Navarrete, Michael R. Redclift -- Society, Environment and Development in Africa / William M. Adams -- Neoliberal Regimes of Environmental Governance : Climate Change, Biodiversity and Agriculture in Australia / Stewart Lockie -- Environmental Reform in Modernizing China / Arthur P.J. Mol -- Civic Engagement in Environmental Governance in Central and Eastern Europe / JoAnn Carmin -- 'Sustaining Conservation' for Mexico? / Nora Haenn.