| Description |
1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 Planet in Peril -- Limits of Growth -- Runaway Climate Change -- Collapse -- Consuming the Planet to Excess -- Constructing Catastrophe -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Online Resources -- Key Terms -- References -- 2 Environmental Sociology: Key Perspectives and Controversies -- Why Environmental Sociology Was Slow to Develop -- Backlash Against Geographical and Biological Determinism |
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Sociologists as Hucksters for Development and Progress -- Classical Sociological Theory and the Environment -- Émile Durkheim -- Max Weber -- Karl Marx -- Roads Not Taken -- Contemporary Theoretical Approaches to Environmental Sociology -- Two Foundational Explanations for Environmental Degradation and Destruction -- Ecological Explanation -- Political Economy Explanation: the Societal-Environmental Dialectic and the Treadmill of Production -- A Hybrid: Critical Human Ecology -- Reflexive Modernisation/risk Society Thesis -- Ecological Modernisation |
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Two Normative Theories of Modernism and Environmental Improvement -- A Major Controversy: the Realism Versus Constructivism Debate -- The Case Against Constructionism -- Constructionists Reply -- Health and Environmental Threats Do Not Always Follow a Unidirectional Path. -- Prospects for Reconciliation -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Online Resources -- Key Terms -- References -- 3 Social Construction of Environmental Issues and Problems -- Constructing Social Problems -- Constructionism as an Analytic Tool -- Nature of Claims -- Claims-makers -- Claims-making Process |
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Key Tasks /processes in the Social Construction of Environmental Problems -- Defining Environmental Problems -- Assembling Environmental Claims -- Presenting Environmental Claims -- Contesting Environmental Claims -- Audiences for Environmental Claims -- Necessary Factors for the Successful Construction of an Environmental Problem -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Key Terms -- References -- 4 Environmental Discourse -- Studying Environmental Discourse -- A Typology of Environmentalist Discourse -- Arcadian Discourse |
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Wilderness as a Discursive Invention: the "Back to Nature" Movement in Early Twentieth-Century America -- Ecosystem Discourse -- Environmental Justice Discourse -- Emergence and Growth -- Discourse, Power Relations and Political Ecology -- Discourse and Political Ecology -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Online Resources -- Key Concepts -- References -- 5 Media and Environmental Communication -- Manufacturing News -- Organisational Routines and Constraints -- Media Discourse -- Mass Media and Environmental Coverage -- Production of Environmental News |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Constructing "Winning" Environmental Accounts in the Media |
| Subject |
Environmental sociology.
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Environmental sociology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000646849 |
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100064684X |
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