num_pages: 370
description: This integrative book about human-environment relations connects many issues about human societies, ecological systems, and environments with data and perspectives from different fields of study. While the viewpoint is primarily sociological, coverage is specifically designed to relate to a diverse audience and encompass viewpoints from a variety of natural and social science approaches. KEY TOPICS Chapter topics include environmental problems and ecosystems; the resources of the sources and sinks; global climate change, scientific uncertainty, and risk; population, environment, and food; energy and society; transforming markets, politics, and policy; ideology, and collective action; and trade, environment, and the third revolution. For individuals with an interest in– and concern for–the environment.
language: English
title: Environment and Society: Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues
titlecomplete: Environment and Society: Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues
genres: Sociology, Environment
ratings_count: 36
publisher: Taylor & Francis