The SAGE handbook of environment and society / edited by Jules Pretty [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. 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 -- Sect. I. Environmental thought: past and present -- 2. Humans and nature: from Locke and Rousseau to Darwin and Wallace / Ted Benton -- 3. Anarchism, libertarianism and Environmentalism: Anti-Authoritarian Thought and the Search for Self-Organizing Societies / Damian F. While and Gideon Kossoff -- 4. Ecofeminism: linking gender and ecology / Mary Mellor -- 5. Deep ecology / Ted Benton -- 6. Greening the left? From Marx to World-System Theory / Ted Benton -- 7. Human Relationships, Nature, and the Built Environment: Problems that Any General Ethics Must Be Able to Address / Warwick Fox -- 8. Anti-Environmentalism: Prometheans, Contrarians and Beyond / Damian F. While, Alan P. Rudy and Chris Wilbert -- Sect. II. Valuing the Environment -- 9. Fundamental Economic Questions for Choosing Environmental Management Instalments / Thomas D. Crocker -- 10. Valuing Preferences Regarding Environmental Change / Ian J. Bateman -- 11. Economic valuation of ecosystem services / Randall A. Kramer -- 12. Assessing Environment-Development Tradeoffs: A Developing Country Perspective / David R. Lee -- 13. Waler Policy, Economics and the EU Water Framework Directive / Joe Morris -- Sect. III. Knowledges and Knowing -- 14. Ecological Design and Education / David W. Orr -- 15. Knowing Systems and the Environment / Richard Bawden -- 16. Volunteer Environmental Monitoring, Knowledge Creation and Citizen -- Scientist Interaction / Max J. Pfeffer and Linda P. Wagenet -- 17. Environmental Ethics / Vol Plumwood -- 18. Biocultural Diversity and Sustainability / Luisa Maffi -- Sect. IV. Political Economy of Environmental Change -- 19. Representative Democracy and Environmental Problem Solution / Ron Johnston -- 20. Political ecology from landscapes to genomes: science and interests / Ronald J. Herring -- 21. Protest Movements, Environmental activism and Environmentalism in the United Kingdom / Steven Griggs and David R. Howarth -- 22. Faces of the Sustainability Transition / Tim O'Riordan -- 23. Greening of Business: Opportunity or Contradiction? / Christina Page and Amory Lovins -- Sect. V. Environmental Technologies -- 24. Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change / Thomas J. Wilbanks and Patricia Romero-Lankao -- 25. Healthy Environments / Howard Frumkin -- 26. Air Pollution: History of Actions and Effectiveness of Change / Ian Colbeck -- 27. Terrestrial Environments, Soils and Bioremediation / Andrew S. Ball -- 28. Regenerating Aquaculture -- Enhancing Aquatic Resources Management, Livelihoods and Conservation / Stuart W. Bunting -- 29. Shopping for Green Food in Globalizing Supermarkets: Sustainability at the Consumption Junction / Peter Oosterveer, Julia S. Guivant and Gert Spaargaren -- Sect. VI. Redesigning Natures -- 30. Healthy Ecosystems: An Evolving Paradigm / David J. Rapport -- 31. Environment and Human Security / Laura Little and Chris Cocklin -- 32. Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems / Jules Pretty -- 33. Animals and Society / Henry Buller and Carol Morris -- 34. Social Change and Conservation / Madhav Gadgil -- 35. Coral Reefs and People / David Smith, Sarah Pilgrim and Leanne Cullen -- Sect. VII. Institutions and Policies for Influencing the Environment -- 36. Role of Science and Scientists in Environmental Policy / Jonathan Hastie -- 37. Interdependent Social-Ecological Systems and Adaptive Governance for Ecosystem Services / Carl Folke, Johan Colding, Per Olsson and Thomas Hahn -- 38. Contested Ground in Nature Protection: Current Challenges and Opportunities in Community-Based Natural Resources and Protected Areas Management / Steven R. Brechin, Grant Murray and Charles Benjamin -- 39. Institutions, Collective Action and Effective Forest Management: Learning from Studies in Nepal / Harini Nagendra and Elinor Ostrom -- 40. Precautionary Principle in Environmental Policies / Albert Weale -- 41. Environmental Risks and Public Perceptions / Ulrich Beck and Cordula Kropp.

Focusing on the interactions between people, societies and economies, and the state of nature and the environment, this text presents readers in social science and natural science with a manual of the past, present and future of environment-society links.

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