This thoroughly revised Handbook provides an assessment of the scope and content of environmental sociology, and sets out the intellectual and practical challenges posed by the urgent need for policy and action to address accelerating environmental change.

Contents: Introduction Graham Woodgate PART I: CONCEPTS AND THEORIES IN ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY Editorial Commentary Graham Woodgate 1. The Maturation and Diversification of Environmental Sociology: From Constructivism and Realism to Agnosticism and Pragmatism Riley E. Dunlap 2. Social Institutions and Environmental Change Frederick H. Buttel 3. From Environment Sociology to Global Ecosociology: The Dunlap–Buttel Debates Jean-Guy Vaillancourt 4. Ecological Modernization as a Social Theory of Environmental Reform Arthur P.J. Mol 5. Ecological Modernization Theory: Theoretical and Empirical Challenges Richard York, Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Dietz 6. Postconstructivist Political Ecologies Arturo Escobar 7. Marx’s Ecology and its Historical Significance John Bellamy Foster 8. The Transition Out of Carbon Dependence: The Crises of Environment and Markets Michael R. Redclift 9. Socio-ecological Agency: From ‘Human Exceptionalism’ to Coping with ‘Exceptional’ Global Environmental Change David Manuel-Navarrete and Christine N. Buzinde 10. Ecological Debt: An Integrating Concept for Socio-Environmental Change Iñaki Barcena Hinojal and Rosa Lago Aurrekoetxea 11. The Emergence Model of Environment and Society John Hannigan 12. Peering into the Abyss: Environment, Research and Absurdity in the ‘Age of Stupid’ Raymond L. Bryant PART II: SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY Editorial Commentary Graham Woodgate 13. Animals and Us Ted Benton 14. Science and the Environment in the Twenty-first Century Steven Yearley 15. New Challenges for Twenty-first Century Environmental Movements: Agricultural Biotechnology and Nanotechnology Maria Kousis 16. Sustainable Consumption: Developments, Considerations and New Directions Emma D. Hinton and Michael K. Goodman 17. Globalisation, Convergence and the Euro-Atlantic Development Model Wolfgang Sachs 18. Environmental Hazards and Human Disasters Raymond Murphy 19. 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 and J. Timmons Roberts 20. Environmental Sociology and International Forestry: Historical Overview and Future Directions Bianca Ambrose-Oji PART III: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY Editorial Commentary Graham Woodgate 21. The Role of Place in the Margins of Space David Manuel-Navarrete and Michael R. Redclift 22. Society, Environment and Development in Africa William M. Adams 23. Neoliberal Regimes of Environmental Governance: Climate Change, Biodiversity and Agriculture in Australia Stewart Lockie 24. Environmental Reform in Modernizing China Arthur P.J. Mol 25. Civic Engagement in Environmental Governance in Central and Eastern Europe JoAnn Carmin 26. A ‘Sustaining Conservation’ for Mexico? Nora Haenn Index