9780205820535-0205820530-Environment and Society: Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues, 5th Edition

Environment and Society: Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues, 5th Edition

ISBN-13: 9780205820535
ISBN-10: 0205820530
Edition: 5
Author: Charles L. Harper
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Pearson
Format: Paperback 336 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780205820535
ISBN-10: 0205820530
Edition: 5
Author: Charles L. Harper
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Pearson
Format: Paperback 336 pages

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Environment and Society: Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues, 5th Edition (ISBN-13: 9780205820535 and ISBN-10: 0205820530), written by authors Charles L. Harper, was published by Pearson in 2011. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Earth Sciences (Human Geography, Social Sciences, Sociology) books. You can easily purchase or rent Environment and Society: Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues, 5th Edition (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Earth Sciences books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.38.

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A sociological approach to human-environment relations

Environment and Society relates to a diverse audience and encompasses viewpoints from a variety of natural and social science approaches.

This integrative book about human-environment relations connects many issues about human societies, ecological systems, and environments with data and perspectives from different fields of study. Its viewpoint is primarily sociological and it is designed for courses in Environmental Sociology and Environmental Issues, or taught in departments of Sociology, Environmental Studies, Anthropology, Political Science, and Human Geography.

Learning Goals

Upon completing this book, readers should be able to:

  • Understand how environmental problems relate to human behavior, culture, and social institutions
  • Evaluate suggestions for changing the human-environment relationship to a more “sustainable” environment, society, and world order
  • Recognize the importance of worldviews and paradigms that have implicit basic assumptions about the “way the world works” and see how they shape the scholarship of experts in different fields
  • Examine the work and perspectives of economists, political scientists, anthropologists, geographers and policy analysts as they address environmental and ecological issues

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