Sociological Theory and the Environment: Classical Foundations, Contemporary Insights

This is the second volume to result from a 1997 conference held at the Woudschoten Conference Center in Zeist, Netherlands. It contains major revisions of several papers from the conference plus a few written specifically for this text. Fifteen chapters, contributed by 18 international scholars, provide an introduction to recent theoretical developments within environmental sociology. Coverage includes classical and twentieth-century social theories, macro-micro linkage issues, globalization and development, reflexive modernization, risk society, constructionalism-realism, environmental movements/identities, consumption and the environment, and cultural sociologies of the environment. For scholars and students in sociology and environmental studies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Riley E. Dunlap is Boeing Distinguished Professor of Environmental Sociology at Washington State University and past president of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Environment and Society.
Frederick H. Buttel is professor of rural sociology and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is currently president of the Environment and Society Research Committee of the International Sociological Association.
Peter Dickens is senior research fellow, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK. He is also fellow and director of studies at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. August Gijswijt retired as an environmental sociologist from the University of Amsterdam in 1998. In 1990 he and Gyorgy Szell founded the Research Committee on Environment and Science.