The SAGE Handbook of Environment and Society

Jules Pretty, Andy Ball, Ted Benton, Julia Guivant, David R Lee, David Orr, Max Pfeffer, Professor Hugh Ward, Jules Pretty, Andy Ball, Ted Benton, Julia Guivant, David R Lee, David Orr, Max Pfeffer, Professor Hugh Ward

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN: 9781412918435
• eBook ISBN: 9781446250082
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Environmental Science
• Index: Biological Sciences

"A monumental and timely contribution to scholarship on society and environments. The handbook makes it easy and compelling for anyone to learn about that scholarship in its full manifestations and as represented by some of the most highly respected researchers and thinkers in the English-speaking world. It is wide-reaching in scope and far-reaching in its implications for public and private action, a definite must for serious researchers and their libraries."
- Bonnie J McCay, Rutgers University

"This is the desert island book for anyone interested in the relationship between society and the environment. The editors have assembled a masterful collection of contributions on every conceivable dimension of environmental thinking in the social sciences and humanities. No library should be without it!?
- Robyn Eckersley, University of Melbourne

The SAGE Handbook of Environment and Society focuses on the interactions between people, societies and economies, and the state of nature and the environment. Editorially integrated but written from multi-disciplinary perspectives, it is organised in seven sections:

• Environmental thought: past and present
• Valuing the environment
• Knowledges and knowing
• Political economy of environmental change
• Environmental technologies
• Redesigning natures
• Institutions and policies for influencing the environment

Key themes include: locations where the environment-society relation is most acute: where, for example, there are few natural resources or where industrialization is unregulated; the discussion of these issues at different scales: local, regional, national, and global; the cost of damage to resources; and the relation between principal actors in the environment-society nexus.

Aimed at an international audience of academics, research students, researchers, practitioners and policy makers, The SAGE Handbook of Environment and Society presents readers in social science and natural science with a manual of the past, present and future of environment-society links.

Table of contents

• Contents
• List of Contributors
• 1 Introduction to Environment and Society
• SECTION I Environmental Thought: Past and Present
• 2 Humans and Nature: From Locke and Rousseau to Darwin and Wallace
• 3 Anarchism, Libertarianism and Environmentalism: Anti-Authoritarian Thought and the Search for Self-Organizing Societies
• 4 Ecofeminism: Linking Gender and Ecology
• 5 Deep Ecology
• 6 Greening the Left? From Marx to World-System Theory
• 7 Human Relationships, Nature, and the Built Environment: Problems that Any General Ethics Must Be Able to Address
• 8 Anti-Environmentalism: Prometheans, Contrarians and Beyond
• SECTION II Valuing the Environment
• 9 Fundamental Economic Questions for Choosing Environmental Management Instruments
• 10 Valuing Preferences Regarding Environmental Change
• 11 Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services
• 12 Assessing Environment–Development Tradeoffs: A Developing Country Perspective
• 13 Water Policy, Economics and the EU Water Framework Directive
• SECTION III Knowledges and Knowing
• 14 Ecological Design and Education
• 15 Knowing Systems and the Environment
• 16 Volunteer Environmental Monitoring, Knowledge Creation and Citizen–Scientist Interaction
• 17 Environmental Ethics
• 18 Biocultural Diversity and Sustainability
• SECTION IV Political Economy of Environmental Change
• 19 Representative Democracy and Environmental Problem Solution
• 20 Political Ecology from Landscapes to Genomes: Science and Interests
• 21 Protest Movements, Environmental Activism and Environmentalism in the United Kingdom
• 22 Faces of the Sustainability Transition
• 23 The Greening of Business: Opportunity or Contradiction?
• SECTION V Environmental Technologies
• 24 The Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
• 25 Healthy Environments
• 26 Air Pollution: History of Actions and Effectiveness of Change
• 27 Terrestrial Environments, Soils and Bioremediation
• 28 Regenerating Aquaculture –Enhancing Aquatic Resources Management, Livelihoods and Conservation
• 29 Shopping for Green Food in Globalizing Supermarkets: Sustainability at the Consumption Junction
• SECTION VI Redesigning Natures
• 30 Healthy Ecosystems: An Evolving Paradigm
• 31 Environment and Human Security
• 32 Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems
• 33 Animals and Society
• 34 Social Change and Conservation
• 35 Coral Reefs and People
• SECTION VII Institutions and Policies for Influencing the Environment
• 36 The Role of Science and Scientists in Environmental Policy
• 37 Interdependent Social–Ecological Systems and Adaptive Governance for Ecosystem Services
• 38 Contested Ground in Nature Protection: Current Challenges and Opportunities in Community-Based Natural Resources and Protected Areas Management
• 39 Institutions, Collective Action and Effective Forest Management: Learning from Studies in Nepal
• 40 The Precautionary Principle in Environmental Policies
• 41 Environmental Risks and Public Perceptions
• Index