Environmental Sociology
       This new edition of John Hannigan’s widely-known and respected text has been thoroughly
       revised to reflect major recent conceptual and empirical advances in environmental soci
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       ology. Key updates and additions include:
       • anextendeddiscussionofhowclassicsociologicaltheoryrelatestocontemporaryenvi-
         ronmental sociology;
       • afocusonculturalsociologiesoftheenvironment,notablydiscourseanalysisandsocial
         framing;
       • updated coverage of the environmental justice movement and global biodiversity loss;
       • a critical overview of contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives, namely co-
         constructionist theories of ‘socionature’.
       Theneweditionincludes two new ‘hot topic’ chapters:
       • ‘Discourse, power relations and political ecology’ deals specifically with discursive
         conflicts between North and South, and includes a profile of contemporary struggles
         over water privatisation in Africa and Latin America;
       • ‘Towardsan“emergence”modelofenvironmentandsociety’introducesanewwayof
         conceptualising the environmental field that brings together insights from complexity
         theory,thesociologyofdisasters,collectivebehaviourandsocialmovements,perspec-
         tives on ‘social learning and the sociology of environmental ‘flows’.
        Writteninalivelyandaccessiblemanner,EnvironmentalSociologymakesastrongcasefor
       placing the study of emergent uncertainties, structures and flows central to a ‘realist/
       constructionist model’ of environmental knowledge, politics and policy-making. The book
       offers a distinctive and even-handed treatment of environmental issues and debates, inte-
       gratingEuropeantheoreticalcontributionssuchasrisksocietyandecologicalmodernisation
       with North American empirical insights and findings.
        Thebookwillinterestenvironmentalprofessionalsandactivists,andwillbeaninvaluable
       resource to undergraduate and postgraduate students in geography, sociology, political
       science and environmental studies.
       John Hannigan is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto and author of two
       major books, Environmental Sociology: A Social Constructionist Perspective (1995) and Fantasy City:
       Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern City (1998), both published by Routledge.
    Environmental Sociology
    Second edition
    John Hannigan