Why environmental sociology?

A sociology of environmental representation

A sociology of environmental representation. Access to the published version may require subscription. The environment cannot plead its own case but must be represented. The aim of this paper is to elaborate on the concept of representation and demonstrate its relevance for environmental sociology. Drawing on Pitkin's classic work on representation, we discuss representation as both 'acting for...

Critical Essay ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY AND THE EXPLANATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL REFORM

Environmental Sociology and the Sociology of Natural Resources: Institutional Histories and Intellectual Legacies

While environmental sociology and the sociology of natural resources nominally focus on the same subject matters, in practice the literatures in the two subdisciplines have tended to be quite separate intellectual enterprises. Environmental sociology and the sociology of natural resources have different origins, their practitioners tend to have distinctive institutional locations, their problem...

The Growth of Chinese Environmental Sociology ∗ by Dayong Hong and

This paper examines the characteristics and growth of Chinese environmental sociology and then predicts future developments. The authors argue that the development of environmental sociology in China can be divided into two phases: its spontaneous introduction and research without a clear disciplinary consciousness prior to the mid 1990s, and then intentional research and its construction with ...

Towards a global environmental sociology? Legacies, trends and future directions

A current debate on environmental sociology involves how the subdiscipline should conceptualise and investigate the environment and whether it should be prescriptive and deliver policy recommendations. Taking this debate as a point of departure this article discusses the current and future role of sociology in a globalised world. It discusses how environmental sociology in the US and Europe dif...