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Contents

Editors: Jules Pretty, Andrew Ball, Ted Benton, Julia Guivant, David Lee, David Orr, Max Pfeffer and Hugh Ward

 

INTRODUCTION

1. Introduction to environment and society

 

Jules Pretty, Andrew Ball, Ted Benton, Julia Guivant, David Lee, David Orr, Max Pfeffer and Hugh Ward 

Section I: ENVIRONMENTAL THOUGHT: PAST AND PRESENT

2.  Humans and nature: from Locke to Rousseau to Darwin to Wallace

Ted Benton (University of Essex)

3. Anarchism, libertarianism and environmentalism: anti-authoritarian thought and the search for self-organising societies

Damian White (James Madison University) and Gideon Kossoff (Dartington)

4. Ecofeminism: Linking gender and ecology

Mary Mellor (University of Northumbria)

5. Deep ecology

Ted Benton (University of Essex)

6.  Greening the left? From Marx to world-system theory

Ted Benton (University of Essex)

 

7.  Human relationships, nature, and the built environment: problems that any general ethics must be able to address

Warwick Fox (University of Central Lancashire)

 

8.  Anti-Environmentalism: Prometheans, Contrarians and Beyond

Damian White (James Madison University), Chris Wilbert (APU) and Alan Rudy (Michigan State)

Section II: VALUING THE ENVIRONMENT

 

9.  Fundamental economic questions for choosing environmental management instruments

Thomas Crocker (University of Wyoming)

 

10. The valuation of environmental impacts

Ian Bateman (University of East Anglia)

 

11. Economic valuation of ecosystem services

Randall Kramer (Duke University)

12. Tradeoffs and linkages between development, poverty and environment: macro (Environmental Kuznets Curve) and micro household dimensions

David Lee (Cornell University)

 

13. Water policy, economics, and the EU Framework Directive

Joe Morris (Cranfield University)

 

Section III: KNOWLEDGES AND KNOWING

 

14. Ecological design and education

David Orr (Oberlin College)

15. Knowing Systems and the Environment

Richard Bawden (Michigan State)

16. Volunteer environmental monitoring, knowledge creation and citizen-scientist interaction

Max Pfeffer and Linda Wagenet (Cornell University)

17. Environmental ethics

Val Plumwood (Australian National University)

18. Biocultural diversity and sustainability

Luisa Maffi (Terralingua)

Section V: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

 

19. Representative democracy and environmental problem solution

Ron Johnson (University of Bristol)

 

20. Political ecology from landscapes to genomes: science and interests

Ron Herring (Cornell University)

 

21. Protest movements, environmental activism and environmentalism in the UK

Steven Griggs (Birmingham) and David Howarth (University of Essex)

 

22. Faces of the sustainability transition

Tim O’Riordan (University of East Anglia)

 

23. The greening of business – opportunity or contradiction?

Christina Page and Amory Lovins (Rocky Mountain Institute)

 

Section V: ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES

 

24. The human dimensions of global environmental change

Tom Wilbanks (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and Patricia Romero-Lankao (Mexico)

 

25. Healthy environments

Howard Frumkin (CDC, Atlanta)

26. Air pollution – history of actions and effectiveness of change

Ian Colbeck (University of Essex)

 

27. Terrestrial environments, soils and bioremediation

Andrew Ball (Flinders University of South Australia)

 

28. Regenerating aquaculture: enhancing aquatic resources management, livelihoods and conservation

Stuart Bunting (University of Essex)

 

29. Shopping for green food in globalizing supermarkets: sustainability at the consumption junction

Peter Oosterveer (Wageningen University), Julia Guivant (Federal University of Santa Caterina) and Gert Spaargaren (Wageningen University)

 

Section VI: REDESIGNING NATURES

 

30. Healthy ecosystems: an evolving paradigm

David Rapport (University of Western Ontario)

 

31. Environment and human security

Laura Little and Chris Cocklin (Monash University)

 

32. Sustainable agriculture and food systems

Jules Pretty (University of Essex)

 

33. Animals and society

Henry Buller and Carol Morris (University of Exeter)

 

34. Social change and conservation

Madhav Gadgil (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

35. Coral reefs and people

Dave Smith, Sarah Pilgrim and Leanne Cullen (University of Essex)

Section VII: INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES FOR INFLUENCING THE ENVIRONMENT

36. The role of science and scientists in environmental policy

Jon Hastie (University of Essex)

37. Integrated social-ecological systems and adaptive governance for ecosystem services

Carl Folke (Stockholm University, Sweden) Johan Colding, Per Olsson, and Thomas Hahn

38. Contested ground in nature protection: current challenges and opportunities in community-based natural resources and protected areas management

Steven R. Brechin (Syracuse Univ), Grant Murray (Rutgers Univ) and Charles Benjamin (Williams College)

39. Institutions, collective action and effective forest management: learning from studies in Nepal

Harini Nagendra  and Elinor Ostrom (Indiana University) 

40. The precautionary principle in environmental policies

Albert Weale (University of Essex)

41. Environmental risks and public perceptions

Ulrich Beck and Cordula Kropp (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich)