The scope of the Redclift-Woodgate volume is vast and, overall, the Handbook amounts to an almost encyclopaedic reference text for scholars of environmental questions across the social sciences, be they in sociology, geography, political science or wherever.
A special issue on the missing pillar of sustainability is guest edited by Magnus Boström. Potential contributors are invited to submit a 500-word abstract by March 1, 2010.
The new book edited by Rolf Lidskog, Linda Soneryd and Ylva Uggla is about governing large-scale transboundary environmental risk associated with climate change and pollution.
The new book edited by Hellmuth Lange and Lars Meier titled The New Middle Classes - Globalizing Lifestyles, Consumerism and Environmental Concern challenges a narrow understanding of lifestyles and consumption by analyzing the issue not only in terms of attitudes and preferences but of socio-economic features and governmental policies.
Here is the schedule of sessions of the Research Network 12 ‘Environment and Society’ for the 9th ESA Conference.
The German Sociological Society's Section on Environmental Sociology and the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ are pleased to announce the Second German Environmental Sociology Summit in Leipzig (Germany) from November 5-7, 2009.
The aim of the Coping with Uncertainty conference is to discuss implications of uncertainty at science-policy interfaces connected with environmental, social and economic risks in the Baltic Sea Region.
The new book of Raymond Murphy is about how leaders respond when technological successes create vulnerability and nature ceases to be motherly. It is a major contribution to the analysis of vulnerability, resilience, and the challenge of confronting environmental problems, such as global climate change, and a valuable resource for scholars and general readers seeking to learn more about how extreme weather disasters can be managed. Disasters occur when hazards of nature strike socio-technological vulnerabilities. While science provides valuable indications of risk, it does not yield certainty, yet leaders must make sense of threats. Raymond Murphy's case study of the management of the 1998 ice storm - the most costly disaster ever in Canada, northern New York state, and Maine - presents rare interviews with key political and emergency management leaders that provide an insider's view of the challenge of responding to extreme weather. They document a generally well managed crisis, but also reveal the slippery slope from transparency to withholding critical information as the crisis deepened, and examine conflict resolution between leaders during a disaster.
The Comparative Education Review invites papers for a special 2010 issue on environmental education entitled Educators and the Environment: World Lessons for a Sustainable World.
The Frederick H. Buttel International Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Environmental Sociology is an award of the Research Committee Environment and Society (RC24) of the International Sociological Association (ISA), established March 17, 2005, and given once every four years. The international award is intended for outstanding contributions of scholars to the study of environment-society relations during the four years since the last call for nominations.
