The SAGE Handbook of Environment and SocietyJules Pretty, Andy Ball, Ted Benton, Julia Guivant, David R Lee, David Orr, Max Pfeffer, Professor Hugh Ward SAGE, 2007 M10 30 - 640 pages "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!′ 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:
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. |
From inside the book
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... limited elemental rationality' of the individual. To the extent that exchange institutions – markets and other incentive-compatible environmental policies and instruments – accurately reflect available information and options, they can ...
... limited, for different reasons. Comparing the results of household- and village-level studies is difficult due to the use of non-comparable analytical methodologies, the lack of results estimated over time (which would demonstrate the ...
... limited unless subjected to human industriousness, rationality, and the allocation of property rights. However, Locke's understanding of the 'law of nature' does impose some interesting restraints on the appropriation of nature as ...
... limited by the extent of land that can be brought into cultivation, and the growth of agricultural productivity. At best, he claims, this can expand only 'arithmetically' – i.e. by constant increments year by year. So, the growth of ...
... limited property ownership was necessary to secure and protect individual liberty. As such, Proudhon advocated a more 'market' friendly system of mutualism. Proudhon's mutualism consisted of a pluralist and confederal mixed economy ...
Contents
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22 Faces of the Sustainability Transition | 325 |
Opportunity or Contradiction? | 336 |
SECTION V Environmental Technologies | 351 |
24 The Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change | 353 |
25 Healthy Environments | 362 |
History of Actions and Effectiveness of Change | 374 |
27 Terrestrial Environments Soils and Bioremediation | 385 |
28 Regenerating Aquaculture Enhancing Aquatic Resources Management Livelihoods and Conservation | 395 |
Prometheans Contrarians and Beyond | 124 |
SECTION II Valuing the Environment | 143 |
9 Fundamental Economic Questions for Choosing Environmental Management Instruments | 145 |
10 Valuing Preferences Regarding Environmental Change | 155 |
11 Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services | 172 |
A Developing Country Perspective | 181 |
13 Water Policy Economics and the EU Water Framework Directive | 191 |
SECTION III Knowledges and Knowing | 207 |
14 Ecological Design and Education | 209 |
15 Knowing Systems and the Environment | 224 |
16 Volunteer Environmental Monitoring Knowledge Creation and CitizenScientist Interaction | 235 |
17 Environmental Ethics | 250 |
18 Biocultural Diversity and Sustainability | 267 |
SECTION IV Political Economy of Environmental Change | 279 |
19 Representative Democracy and Environmental Problem Solution | 281 |
Science and Interests | 299 |
21 Protest Movements Environmental Activism and Environmentalism in the United Kingdom | 314 |
Sustainability at the Consumption Junction | 411 |
SECTION VI Redesigning Natures | 429 |
An Evolving Paradigm | 431 |
31 Environment and Human Security | 442 |
32 Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems | 457 |
33 Animals and Society | 471 |
34 Social Change and Conservation | 485 |
35 Coral Reefs and People | 500 |
SECTION VII Institutions and Policies for Influencing the Environment | 517 |
36 The Role of Science and Scientists in Environmental Policy | 519 |
37 Interdependent SocialEcological Systems and Adaptive Governance for Ecosystem Services | 536 |
Current Challenges and Opportunities in CommunityBased Natural Resources and Protected Areas Management | 553 |
Learning from Studies in Nepal | 578 |
40 The Precautionary Principle in Environmental Policies | 590 |
41 Environmental Risks and Public Perceptions | 601 |
Index | 613 |