TY - BOOK AU - Hannigan, John TI - Environmental sociology: SN - 9780415661898 U1 - 363.7 PY - 2014/// CY - Oxon PB - Routledge KW - EP N1 - Environmental Sociology offers a distinctive, balanced treatment of environmental issues, reconciling Hannigan's much-cited model of the social construction of environmental problems and controversies with an environmental justice perspective that stresses inequality and toxic threats to local communities; 1. Planet in Peril -- 2. Environmental Sociology: Key Perspectives and Controversies -- 3. Social Construction of Environmental Issues and Problems -- 4. Environmental Discourse -- 5. Media and Environmental Communication -- 6. Science, Knowledge and Environmental Problems-- 7. Risk Construction 8. Biodiversity Loss: The Successful 'Career' of a Global Environmental Problem -- 9. Fear of Fracking -- 10. Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography ER -