Ted Benton & Julia Guivant 
The SAGE Handbook of Environment and Society 

‚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 Mc Cay, 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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction to Environment and Society – Jules Pretty, Andrew S. Ball, Ted Benton, Julia S. Guivant, David R. Lee, David Orr, Max J. Pfeffer and Hugh Ward

PART 1: ENVIRONMENTAL THOUGHT: PAST AND PRESENT

From Locke and Rousseau to Darwin and Wallace – Ted Benton Humans and Nature

Anarchism, Libertarianism and Environmentalism – Damian F. White and Gideon Kossoff

Anti-authoritarian Thought and the Search for Self-organising Societies

Ecofeminism – Mary Mellor

Linking Gender and Ecology

Deep Ecology – Ted Benton

Greening the Left? From Marx to World-system Theory – Ted Benton

Human Relationships, Nature, and the Built Environment – Warwick Fox

Problems that any General Ethics must be able to Address

Anti-Environmentalism – Damian F. White, Chris P. Wilbert and Alan Rudy

Prometheans, Contrarians and Beyond

PART 2: VALUING THE ENVIRONMENT

Fundamental Economic Questions for Choosing Environmental Management Instruments – Thomas D. Crocker

Valuing Preferences regarding Environmental Change – Ian J. Bateman

Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services – Randall A. Kramer

Assessing Environment-Development Tradeoffs – David R. Lee

A Developing Country Perspective

Water Policy, Economics, and the EU Framework Directive – Joe Morris

PART 3: KNOWLEDGES AND KNOWING

Ecological Design and Education – David W. Orr

Knowing Systems and the Environment – Richard Bawden

Volunteer Environmental Monitoring, Knowledge Creation and Citizen-scientist Interaction – Max Pfeffer and Linda Wagenet

Environmental Ethics – Val Plumwood

Biocultural Diversity and Sustainability – Luisa Maffi

PART 4: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

Representative Democracy and Environmental Problem Solution – Ron Johnson

Political Ecology from Landscapes to Genomes – Ron J. Herring

Science and Interests

Protest Movements, Environmental Activism and Environmentalism in the United Kingdom – Steven Griggs and David Howarth

Faces of the Sustainability Transition – Tim O′Riordan

The Greening of Business – Christina Page and Amory Lovins

Opportunity or Contradiction?

PART 5: ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES

The Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change – Thomas J. Wilbanks and Patricia Romero-Lankao

Healthy Environments – Howard Frumkin

Air pollution – Ian Colbeck

History of Actions and Effectiveness of Change

Terrestrial Environments, Soils and Bioremediation – Andrew S. Ball

Regenerating Aquaculture – Stuart W. Bunting

Enhancing Aquatic Resources Management, Livelihoods and Conservation

Shopping for Green Food in Globalizing Supermarkets – Peter Oosterveer, Julia Guivant and Gert Spaargaren

Sustainability at the Consumption Junction

PART 6: REDESIGNING NATURES

Healthy Ecosystems – David J. Rapport

An Evolving Paradigm

Environment and Human Security – Laura Little and Chris Cocklin

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems – Jules Pretty

Animals and Society – Henry Buller and Carol Morris

Social Change and Conservation – Madhav Gadgil

Coral Reefs and People – Dave Smith, Sarah Pilgrim and Leanne Cullen

PART 7: INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES FOR INFLUENCING THE ENVIRONMENT

The Role of Science and Scientists in Environmental Policy – Jon Hastie

Integrated Social-ecological Systems and Adaptive Governance for Ecosystem Services – Carl Folke, Johan Colding, Per Olsson, and Thomas Hahn

Contested Ground in Nature Protection – Steven R. Brechin, Grant Murray and Charles Benjamin

Current Challenges and Opportunities in Community-based Natural Resources and Protected Areas Management

Institutions, Collective Action and Effective Forest Management – Harini Nagendra and Elinor Ostrom

Learning from Studies in Nepal

The Precautionary Principle in Environmental Policies – Albert Weale

Environmental Risks and Public Perceptions – Ulrich Beck and Cordula Kropp

Über den Autor

MAX J. PFEFFER is International Professor of Development Sociology and Senior Associate Dean of the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. His teaching concentrates on environmental sociology and sociological theory. His research spans several areas including rural labor markets, international migration, land use and environmental planning. The work has focused on a variety of rural and urban communities, including rural/urban fringe areas. Research sites include rural New York and Central America. He has been awarded competitive grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture′s National Research Initiative and its Fund for Rural America, and the Social Science Research Council. Pfeffer has published a wide range of scholarly articles and has written/co-edited four books. He recently published (with John Schelhas) Saving Forests, Protecting People? Environmental Conservation in Central America. Max has served on and led National Research Council committees of the Water Science and Technology Board. Max has served as Chair of the Development Sociology Department, and the Associate Director of both the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station and the Cornell University Center for the Environment.