Environment and Society: A Critical Introduction

This engaging and innovative introduction to the environment and society uses key theoretical approaches to explore familiar objects. It takes topics such as population and scarcity, commodities, environmental ethics, risks and hazards, and political economy, and then applies these to objects ranging from bottled water and tuna, to trees, or French fries. The second edition succeeds in maintaining its balance between theory and application, but now also offers a number of enhanced features. Substantial revisions include new chapters on e–waste, mosquitoes, and uranium; a greater diversity of case studies; improved maps and graphics; new exercises; shorter theory chapters; refocused highlight sections on environmental solutions; and a range of online student resources at www.wiley.com/go/environmentandsociety , including a test bank, notes, suggested reading, and research links.  Students have long–appreciated the innovative and engaging approach that Environment and Society brings to the study of contemporary environmental challenges. Offering insightful and accessible coverage of the key issues in this important field, this book will change the way students think about the relationship between the environment and society today.

Paul Robbins is Professor and Director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin – Madison–. His research interests include understanding human–environment systems, the influence non–humans have on human behavior and organization, and the implications these interactions hold for ecosystem health, local communities, and social justice. He is the author of Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction, Second Edition (Wiley–Blackwell, 2012) and Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are (2007).  John Hintz is Associate Professor of Environmental, Geographic, and Geological Sciences at the Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. His current research focuses on land use conflicts, environmental policy, and the US environmental movement. He has published in a number of journals, including Capitalism Nature Socialism and Ethics , Place and Environment . Sarah A. Moore is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Her research focuses on urban development politics, urban environmental issues, and environmental justice in the United States and Latin America. Her publications include articles in numerous journals including Progress in Human Geography, the Professional Geographer and Society and Natural Resources .

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