New book by Les Levidow and Susan Carr is available from Routledge for a 20% Discount.

A new book of Nathan Young and Ralph Matthews The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada: Activism Politics and Contested Science has been released. A paperback version is available for course adoption. Order and receive 40% off.

As the time scales of natural change accelerate and converge with those of society, Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society edited by Constance Lever-Lacy takes the reader into largely uncharted territory in its exploration of anthropogenic climate change. Current material is used to highlight the global impact of this issue, and the necessity for multidisciplinary and global social science research and teaching to address the problem.

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.

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.

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 new book of Magnus Boström and Mikael Klintman on challenges for green consumerism through green labelling is available from Palgrave. As conscientious consumers, we have become overwhelmed with alarms about food contamination, over­fishing, clear­felled forests, loss of biodiversity, climate change, chemical pollution, and other environmental and health­related risks. This book is an analysis of a primary set of tools aimed at dealing with these risks: green labels and other eco­standards. The authors address political, regulatory, discursive, and organizational circumstances and raise the questions: how can ecological complexities be translated into a trustworthy and categorical label? Is there a mismatch between the production and consumption of green labels? Is it possible to achieve broad public participation in environmental issues through labelling? This is a timely book that provides a social and policy­oriented analysis of the challenges for green consumerism through green labelling.

This volume edited by C.S.A (Kris) van Koppen, Wageningen University, The Netherlands and William T. Markham, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, US actually originated from a session of the ESA Environment & Society research network. It offers a comparative analysis of organizations and networks involved in nature protection in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, the UK and the USA. It traces their development from their origins, more than a century ago, to the present. Throughout this period, nature protection has remained an enduring concern to civil society and continues to be a major stream within environmentalism. However, strategies, public support, and political success vary greatly among the countries studied. Combining rich empirical evidence and theoretical analysis, the book sheds light on the important challenges nature protection faces today. More information on the book is available on this link: http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/bookentry_main.lasso?id=12526

This book of Martin O'Brien takes a measured look at the 'crisis of waste' in modern society and it does so historically, sociologically and critically. It tells stories about past and present 'crises' of waste and puts them in their appropriate social and industrial contexts. From Charles Dickens to Don DeLillo, from the internal combustion engine to fish fingers, from kitchen grease to the Tour de France this book digs deep into society's dust piles and emerges with untold treasures of the imagination.

Martin O'Brien (2007) A Crisis of Waste? Understanding the Rubbish Society New York: Routledge. ISBN: 978-0-415-96098-4 (hardback)