Steven Yearley 
Sociology, Environmentalism, Globalization [PDF ebook] 
Reinventing the Globe

This authoritative book brings together the sociologies of globalization and the environment in one volume. Steven Yearley argues that environmental issues have received scant attention in the general debate on globalization even though environmentalists have been very successful in capturing the language and imagery of the globe.

Spis treści

The Sociology of Globalization

Environmental Issues and the Compression of the Globe

How Do the World′s Environmental Problems Come to Be `Global′?

Universalizing Discourses and Globalization

Rethinking the Global

O autorze

Steven Yearley is Professor of Sociology at the University of York; author of Science and Sociological Practice (Open University Press, 1984), Science Technology and Social Change (Unwin Hyman, 1988) and The Green Case: A Sociology of Environmental Arguments, Issues and Politics (Harper Collins, 1991); editor of Deciphering Science and Technology (with M Mc Neill and I Varcoe), and Protecting the Periphery: Environmental Policy in Peripheral Regions of the European Union (with S Baker and K Milton).