"Environmental sociology is the study of interactions between societies and their natural environment."
The study of the relationship between the natural environment and society, including how human activity impacts the environment.
Environmental Ethics: The study of ethical issues related to the environment, including the value of nature, human responsibility and rights, and environmental justice.
Environmental Policy: The study of laws, regulations, and guidelines that address environmental issues and problems, including resource management, pollution control, and conservation.
Environmental Justice: The study of how social inequalities contribute to environmental problems and how those problems disproportionately affect marginalized communities.
Sustainability: The study of how human activities can be conducted in a way that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Ecological Modernization: The theory that environmental problems can be solved through technological innovation and economic growth, rather than through regulation and enforcement.
Environmental Sociology Theory: The study of theoretical frameworks that guide research on environmental issues, including the social construction of nature, risk society theory, and political ecology.
Environmental Movements: The study of social movements and activism related to environmental issues, including the history of the environmental movement, grassroots organizing, and environmental advocacy.
Environmental Health: The study of how environmental factors such as pollution and climate change affect human health, and how public health policies and interventions can address those problems.
Natural Resource Management: The study of how human societies manage and use natural resources, including land, water, minerals, and forests.
"The field emphasizes the social factors that influence environmental resource management and cause environmental issues, the processes by which these environmental problems are socially constructed and defined as social issues, and societal responses to these problems."
"Environmental sociology emerged as a subfield of sociology in the late 1970s."
"It represents a relatively new area of inquiry focusing on an extension of earlier sociology through inclusion of physical context as related to social factors."
"It emerged in response to the emergence of the environmental movement in the 1960s."
"The study of interactions between societies and their natural environment, social factors influencing environmental resource management and causing environmental issues, processes of socially constructing and defining environmental problems as social issues, and societal responses to these problems."
"The field emphasizes the social factors that influence environmental resource management and cause environmental issues."
"The processes by which these environmental problems are socially constructed and defined as social issues."
"Societal responses to environmental problems."
"It extends earlier sociology through inclusion of the physical context as related to social factors."
"Environmental sociology is the study of interactions between societies and their natural environment."
"It emerged in response to the emergence of the environmental movement in the 1960s."
"Environmental sociology emerged as a subfield of sociology in the late 1970s."
"It represents a relatively new area of inquiry focusing on an extension of earlier sociology through inclusion of physical context as related to social factors."
"The field emphasizes the social factors that influence environmental resource management and cause environmental issues."
"The processes by which these environmental problems are socially constructed and defined as social issues."
"Societal responses to environmental problems."
"The study of interactions between societies and their natural environment, social factors influencing environmental resource management and causing environmental issues, processes of socially constructing and defining environmental problems as social issues, and societal responses to these problems."
"The field emphasizes the social factors that influence environmental resource management and cause environmental issues."
"The field emphasizes the social factors that influence environmental resource management and cause environmental issues, the processes by which these environmental problems are socially constructed and defined as social issues, and societal responses to these problems."