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| Preface | |
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| Exploring Environmental Sociology | |
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| Defining Terms | |
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| Environmental Sociology | |
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| Environmental Sociology: Topics and Types | |
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| An Ecofeminist Account of Deforestation in the Less-Developed Countries | |
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| The Movement against Locally Unwanted Land Uses | |
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| The Roots of Environmental Sociology | |
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| Human Ecology | |
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| The Rise and Revitalization of the Environmental Movement | |
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| Inventing the New Environmental Paradigm | |
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| The Influence of Rural Sociology | |
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| The Influence of Urban Sociology | |
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| Key Issues in the Field | |
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| Growth | |
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| Social and Environmental Change | |
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| International Questions | |
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| Population | |
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| Summary | |
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| Social Theory and the Environment | |
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| Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) | |
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| Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) | |
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| The Durkheimian Conservative Legacy | |
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| Max Weber (1864-1920) | |
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| The Weberian Managerial Legacy | |
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| Karl Marx (1818-1883) | |
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| The Marxian Radical Legacy | |
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| Summary of the Paradigms | |
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| Exemplifying: Stories of Tropical Deforestation | |
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| A Conservative Account | |
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| A Managerial Account | |
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| A Radical Account | |
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| Population and the Environment | |
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| World Population: An Overview | |
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| How Important Is Population Growth for the Environment? | |
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| Demographic Transition Theory: Old and New | |
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| The Theory of the Demographic Transition: A Conservative Paradigm | |
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| History of the Demographic Transition | |
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| New Contributions to Transition Theory | |
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| Policy Implications of the New Transition Theory | |
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| The Emergence of Managerial, Neo-Malthusian Population Policy | |
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| Contraception and Family Planning | |
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| The Role of the United States in the Neo-Malthusian Managerial Paradigm | |
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| The Women's Movement and Neo-Malthusianism Managerialism | |
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| Critiques of the Neo-Malthusianism Managerial Paradigm | |
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| The Feminist Critique of Neo-Malthusianism | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Struggle over Hunger: Social and Ecological Dimensions | |
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| Food Production in Historical and Comparative Perspective | |
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| Productivity: Recent Trends and Future Projections | |
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| Production versus Distribution: Food Security | |
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| Crisis and Food Aid | |
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| Biophysical Constraints on Food Production | |
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| Land | |
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| Water | |
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| Energy | |
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| Environmental Degradation and Sustainability | |
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| Population Growth and Hunger: Theoretical Issues | |
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| Beyond the Green Revolution: Power, Inequality, and Food Distribution | |
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| The Costs of High-Yield Production | |
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| Improved Varieties and Genetic Diversity | |
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| Socioeconomic Effects of Green Revolution Technologies | |
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| Power and Unequal Access | |
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| Export Dependence | |
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| International Food Distribution and Marketing | |
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| Moving beyond the Green Revolution | |
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| Summing Up: The Potential of Global Agriculture | |
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| Energy and the Environment: the Reemerging Energy Crisis | |
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| World Primary Energy Demand | |
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| Global Fuel Mixes: The Present and the Foreseeable Future | |
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| World Crude Petroleum: Past, Present, and Future | |
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| The Birth of American Petroleum Dependency | |
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| The Growth of American Petroleum Dependency | |
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| Looking Back | |
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| The United States in the Persian Gulf Crisis: A War for Oil? | |
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| The Radical Perspective on the GulfWar | |
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| The Managerial Perspective on the GulfWar | |
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| Conservative Perspectives on the GulfWar | |
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| Looking Back | |
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| Ecological Modernization Theory: Claims and Critics | |
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| The Had and Soft Energy Paths | |
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| Factor Four | |
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| Critics of Ecological Modernization | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Environmental Movement: Historic Roots and Current Trends | |
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| Social Movement Concepts | |
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| The Origins of U.S. Environmentalism | |
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| Emergence and Mobilization around Crises | |
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| Ideologies, Actors, and Organizations | |
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| Relative Success | |
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| Distribution of Impacts | |
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| The Emergence of the Contemporary Environmental Movement | |
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| Macro Level | |
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| Meso Level | |
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| Micro Level | |
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| Trends in the Contemporary Environmental Movement | |
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| Public Opinion | |
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| Organizational Professionalization and Managerialist Ideology | |
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| Increasing Diversity of the Environmental Movement: Radical Actors | |
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| Increasing Diversity of the Environmental Movement: Local Actors, Race, and Class Diversity | |
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| Globalization of Environmentalism | |
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| Summary: The Outcomes of the Environmental Movement | |
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| The Sociology of Sustainable Development | |
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| Historical Context of Sustainable Development | |
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| Sustainable Development's Definitional Problems | |
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| Overview of Conservative, Managerial, and Radical Interpretations of Sustainable Development | |
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| Conservative Strategies for Sustainable Development | |
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| Corporate Sustainable Development | |
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| The Voluntary Simplicity Movement | |
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| Managerial Strategies for Sustainable Development | |
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| States' and International Development Agencies' Sustainable Development | |
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| Biodiversity Conservation | |
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| Measuring Sustainable Development: New Social Indicators | |
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| Alternative Paths to Sustainable Development | |
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| Environmental Sociology and Alternative Environmental Futures | |
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| Environmental Movements, Old and "New": The Social Movement Image of Our Environmental Future | |
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| The Managerial Paradigm, the Environmental Regulatory State, and Our Environmental Future | |
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| The Conservative Paradigm, Ecological Modernization, and the Image of Our Environmental Future | |
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| International Environmental Agreements and Our Environmental Future | |
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| What Role for Green Consumerism? | |
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| Which Way Forward into the Future? | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |