Sociology, Environmentalism, Globalization: Reinventing the Globe

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SAGE, 1996 M04 28 - 161 pages
This authoritative book brings together the sociologies of globalization and the environment in one volume. Steven Yearley argues that environmental issues have received scant attention in the general debate on globalization even though environmentalists have been very successful in capturing the language and imagery of the globe.

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Contents

Environmental Issues and the Compression of the Globe
26
How do the Worlds Environmental Problems come
62
Universalizing Discourses and Globalization
100
Rethinking the Global
142
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Steven Yearley
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About the author (1996)

Steven Yearley is Professor of Sociology at the University of York; author of Science and Sociological Practice (Open University Press, 1984), Science Technology and Social Change (Unwin Hyman, 1988) and The Green Case: A Sociology of Environmental Arguments, Issues and Politics (Harper Collins, 1991); editor of Deciphering Science and Technology (with M McNeill and I Varcoe), and Protecting the Periphery: Environmental Policy in Peripheral Regions of the European Union (with S Baker and K Milton).

Bibliographic information

TitleSociology, Environmentalism, Globalization: Reinventing the Globe
Volume 1 of BSA studies in international sociology
Volume 1 of New Horizons in Sociology - International Perspectives , Vol 1
Volume 1 of New Horizons in Sociology Series
AuthorSteven Yearley
PublisherSAGE, 1996
ISBN0803975171, 9780803975170
Length161 pages
  
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