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The Handbook of Environmental Sociology features a collection of 25 original chapters that define the contours of environmental sociology and invite readers to push boundaries in their exploration of this subdiscipline. This introductory chapter speaks to several themes in sociology that are of enduring interest and part of emerging areas of scholarship. The chapter and the volume itself are divided into the following four thematic areas: (1) Inequality, Political Economy, and Justice; (2) Climate, Energy, and Health; (3) Culture, the State, and Institutions; and (4) Population, Place, and Possibilities. Ultimately, this collection advances environmental sociology by identifying new theoretical lenses for understanding social processes and structural conditions that influence environmental outcomes, introducing new methodological approaches for studying the environment, and exploring new frontiers. Throughout the volume, contributors focus attention on the effects of power and inequality in sha** socio-environmental problems and solutions while hel** to advance a vision of public environmental sociology by identifying the ways the subdiscipline can contribute to ongoing policy debates and public discourses.
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Caniglia, B.S., Jorgenson, A., Malin, S.A., Peek, L., Pellow, D.N. (2021). Introduction: A Twenty-First Century Public Environmental Sociology. In: Schaefer Caniglia, B., Jorgenson, A., Malin, S.A., Peek, L., Pellow, D.N., Huang, X. (eds) Handbook of Environmental Sociology. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77712-8_1
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