"Environmental sociology is the study of interactions between societies and their natural environment."
Study of the interactions between societies and the environment, including rural environments.
"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."