Nature, society and environmental crisis / edited by Bob Carter and Nickie Charles.
This book demonstrates how sociology has an important part to play both in understanding and shaping how human societies respond to the threat of ecological catastrophe. Investigates the growing urgency of environmental crises and the remarkable increase in knowledge of genomics.
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[Malden, Mass.] :
Wiley-Blackwell/Sociological Review,
2010.
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| Physical Description: | 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
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Contents:
- Society, nature and sociology / Bob Carter, Nickie Charles. Part 1: Changing conceptions of the natural and the social. Race, sex and the 'earthly' paradise: Wallace versus Darwin on human evolution and prospects / Ted Benton
- Alienation, the cosmos and the self / Peter Dickens
- Normality and pathology in a biomedical age / Nikolas Rose
- Sociology and climate change / John Urry. Part 2: Social worlds, natural worlds: sociological research. The dangerous limits of dangerous limits: climate change and the precautionary principle / Chris Shaw
- A stranger silence still: the need for feminist social research on climate change / Sherilyn MacGregor
- Broadcasting green: grassroots environmentalism on Muslim women's radio / Daniel Nilsson DeHannas. Part 3: Sociological futures. The 'value-action gap' in public attitudes towards sustainable energy: the case of hydrogen energy / Rob Flynn, Paul Bellaby, Miriam Ricci
- Technologies in place: symbolic interpretations of renewable energy / Carly McLachlan
- 'Doing food differently': reconnecting biological and social relationships through care for food / Elizabeth Dowler ... [et al.]
- Unnatural times? The social imaginary and the future of nature / Kate Soper.