Author(s): Steven Yearley
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 216
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figure and Tables......Page 8
1 Introduction: Studying Environmental Issues Sociologically......Page 10
Part I Cultures of Movement: The Sociology of Environmental Movements and Problems......Page 14
2 Social Movement Theory and the Character of Environmental Social Movements......Page 16
3 Shell, a Sure Target for Global Environmental Campaigning?......Page 35
4 How Environmental Problems Come to be ‘Global’: Sociological Perspectives on the Globalisation of the Environment......Page 50
Part II Studies of Environment, Law and Public Policy......Page 64
5 Bog Standards: Contesting Conservation Value at a Public Inquiry......Page 66
6 Independence and Impartiality in Legal Defences of the Environment......Page 84
7 Modelling the Environment: Participation, Trust and Legitimacy in Urban Air-Quality Models......Page 98
Part III Cultures of Knowing and Proving: Science, Evidence and the Environment......Page 120
8 Green Ambivalence about Science......Page 122
9 Mad about the Buoy: Trust and Method in the Brent Spar Controversy......Page 153
10 Genetically Modified Organisms and the Unbearable Irresolution of Testing......Page 168
11 The Value of Environmental Sociology: Towards a Sociology of the Sustainable Society......Page 185
Notes......Page 194
Bibliographical References......Page 201
C......Page 209
F......Page 210
L......Page 211
P......Page 212
S......Page 213
Z......Page 214
