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Detailed Table of Contents About the Author Preface 1 Environmental Problems and Society A Panorama of the Book The Environmental Predicament Sustainability Environmental Justice The Rights and Beauty of Nature The Social Organization of Environmental Problems PART I THE MATERIAL 2 Consumption and Materialism The Material Basis of the Human Condition Ecological Dialogue The Hierarchy of Needs The Original Affluent Society Consumption, Modern Style The Leisure Class Positional Goods Goods and Sentiments The Reality of Sentiments Hau: The Spirit of Goods Sentiments and Advertising Green Advertising Goods and Community The Time Crunch Consumption and the Building of Community The Treadmill of Consumption 3 Money and Machines The Needs of Money The Treadmill of Production A Widget Treadmill The Struggle to Stay on the Treadmill Development and the Growth Machine The ?Invisible Elbow? Factory Farms for Iowa Hogs The Social Creation of Treadmills The Treadmills Inside The Dialogue of Production and Consumption The Dialogue of State and Market The Social Creation of Economics The Needs of Technology Technology as a Dialogue Technology as a Social Structure The Social Organization of Convenience The Constraints of Convenience Technological Somnambulism Phenomenology Culture Politics The Needs of Neither 4 Population and Development The Malthusian Argument Population as Culture The Inequality Critique of Malthusianism The Development of Underdevelopment Food for All Limits of the Inequality Perspective The Technologic Critique of Malthusianism A Cornucopian World? The Boserup Effect The Case of Miracle Rice The Demographic Critique of Malthusianism A New Demographic Transition? Women and Development Family Planning and Birth Control The Environment as a Social Actor 5 Body and Health Welcome to the Invironment Living Downstream: Justice and Our Threatened Invironment Mercury and the People of Grassy Narrows A Factory Explosion and the People of Toulouse Environmental Racism and the People of the United States Pesticides and the People of Everywhere The Sociology of Invironmental Justice What Is Justice? Power and Invironmental Justice Making Connections Part II The Ideal 6 The Ideology of Environmental Domination Christianity and Environmental Domination The Moral Parallels of Protestantism and Capitalism The Moral Parallels of Christianity, Science, and Technology The Greener Side of Christianity Non-Western Philosophies and the Environment Individualism and Environmental Domination Individualism, the Body, and Ecology Balancing the Ecological Self and the Ecological Community Gender and Environmental Domination The Ecology of Patriarchy Gender Differences in the Experience of Nature The Controversy over Ecofeminism The Difference That Ideology Makes 7 The Ideology of Environmental Concern Ancient Beginnings Rome Greece China The Moral Basis of Contemporary Environmental Concern The Extent of Contemporary Environmental Concern The Persistence of Environmental Concern Social Status and Environmental Concern Three Theories of Contemporary Environmental Concern Postmaterialism Paradigm Shift Ecological Modernization The Democratic Basis of Contemporary Environmental Concern Democratic Sensibilities Democratic Institutions The Dialogue of Environmental Concern Postscript 8 The Human Nature of Nature The Contradictions of Nature Ancient Problems, Ancient Solutions The Contradictions of Contemporary Environmentalism Nature as a Social Construction Nature and New England?s Agricultural Decline Nature and Biology Nature and Scientific Racism Environment as a Social Construction The Wilderness Ideal Tourism and the Social Construction of Landscape Environmentalism and Social Exclusion The Dialogue of Nature and Ideology Actors and Actants Resonance 9 The Rationality of Risk Rational Risk Assessment Questioning the Rational Risk Assessment Perspective The Culture of Risk Risk and Threats to the Group Culture and Choice Rational Risk Assessment as Cultural Practice The Sociology of Disasters A New Species of Trouble Normal Accidents A Risk Society? Questioning the Risk Society Risk and Democracy The Dialogue of Risk Dialogue and the Precautionary Principle Trust and the Dialogue of Risk Part III The Practical 10 Organizing the Ecological Society The AB Split Virtual Environmentalism The Problem of Collective Action The Tragedy of the Commons Why It Really Isn?t as Bad as All That The Dialogue of Solidarities, or, Why the Lion Spared Androcles A Tale of Two Villages Dialogue, Democracy, and Environmental Problems The ?Top? and ?Bottom? of Social-Environmental Change Reorganizing Communities Recycling in the United States Supplying Water in a Costa Rican Village Growing Local Knowledge in Honduras Reorganizing Our Own Communities A Bicycle-Powered Hauling and Delivery Business Community-Supported Agriculture Smart Growth Reorganizing Societies Reorganizing Ourselves Notes References Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Environmentalism, Environmental responsibility, Environmental ethics