Environmental sociology: from analysis to action

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Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Environmental Problems Require Social Solutions, Deborah McCarthy and Leslie King Imagining Nature 1.Nature's Looking Glass, Hillary Angelo and Colin Jerolmack Political Economy 2.Why Ecological Revolution?, John Bellamy Foster 3.The Tragedy of the Commodity: The Overexploitation of the Mediterranean Bluefin Tuna Fishery, Stefano B. Longo and Rebecca Clausen 4.Ecological Modernization at Work? Environmental Policy Reform in Sweden at the Turn of the Century, Benjamin Vail 5.A Tale of Contrasting Trends: Three Measures of the Ecological Footprint in China, India, Japan, and the United States, 1961-2003, Richard York, Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Dietz Environmental Inequalities 6.Breaking the Food Chains: An Investigation of Food Justice Activism, Alison Hope Alkon and Kari Marie Norgaard 7.Turning Public Issues into Private Troubles: Lead Contamination, Domestic Labor, and the Exploitation of Women, Lois Bryson, Kathleen McPhillips, and Kathryn Robinson 8.Addressing Urban Transportation Equity in the United States, Robert D. Bullard Social Construction of the Environment, Identity, Emotions and Community 9.Wild Horses and the Political Ecology of Nature Restoration in the Missouri Ozarks, J. Sanford Rikoon 10. People Want to Protect Themselves a Little Bit: Emotions, Denial, and Social Movement Nonparticipation, Kari Marie Norgaard 11.Community Economic Identity: The Coal Industry and Ideology Construction in West Virginia, Shannon Elizabeth Bell and Richard York Perspectives on Disaster 12.Silent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis, Thomas D. Beamish 13.The BP Disaster as an Exxon Valdez Rerun, Liesel Ashley Ritchie, Duane A. Gill, J. Steven Picou Globalization 14.The Unfair Trade-off: Globalization and the Export of Ecological Hazards, Daniel Faber 15.Driving South: The Globalization of Auto Consumption and Its Social Organization of Space, Peter Freund and George Martin Science, Risk and Knowledge 16.Risk Society and Contested Illness: The Case of Nuclear Weapons Workers, Sherry Cable, Thomas E. Shriver, and Tamara L. Mix 17.The Knowledge-Shaping Process: Elite Mobilization and Environmental Policy, Eric Bonds 18.Hurricane Katrina, Contamination, and the Unintended Organization of Ignorance, Scott Frickel and M. Bess Vincent 19.Media Framing of Body Burdens: Precautionary Consumption and the Individualization of Risk, Norah MacKendrick Social and Environmental Change - Ideas and Actions 20.Individualization: Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World?, Michael Maniates 21.Cleaning the Closet: Toward a New Fashion Ethic, Juliet Schor 22.Poitics by Other Greens: The Importance of Transnational Environmental Justice Movement Networks, David Naguib Pellow 23.On the Trail of Courageous Behavior, Myron Glazer and Penina Glazer