ABSTRACT

The third edition of John Hannigan’s classic undergraduate text has been fully updated and revised to highlight contemporary trends and controversies within global environmental sociology. Environmental Sociology offers a distinctive, balanced treatment of environmental issues, reconciling Hannigan’s much-cited model of the social construction of environmental problems and controversies with an environmental justice perspective that stresses inequality and toxic threats to local communities.

chapter |17 pages

Planet in peril

chapter |32 pages

Environmental sociology

Key perspectives and controversies

chapter |28 pages

Environmental discourse

chapter |18 pages

Risk construction

chapter |20 pages

Biodiversity loss

The successful ‘career' of a global environmental problem

chapter |14 pages

Fear of fracking

chapter |7 pages

Conclusion