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Environmental Sociology: A Social Constructionist Perspective (Environment and Society)
Environmental Sociology A Social Constructionist Perspective - Environment and Society Author:John A. Hannigan Why is it that not all environmental problems attract the same public attention? In his revealing approach to the environment, John Hannigan demonstrates that society's willingness to recognize and solve environmental problems depends more upon the way these claims are presented by a limited number of interest groups than upon the severity of th... more »e threat they pose.Using examples drawn from the US, UK and Canada, Hannigan provides students with a model for analyzing environmental issues which can form the basis of their own research. He also for the first time places the construction of environmental knowledge in the context of wider debates with sociology on modernity and postmodernity and what it means to live in a "risk society."« less