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Examines environmental policy from a sociological perspective, showing how our petro-dependency causes unprecedented environmental damage and threatens our democracy

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Author:   Sherry Cable
Publisher:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Imprint:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9781439908990

ISBN 10:   1439908990
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   10 August 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface PART I Rationale for Sustainable Environmental Policy 1 The Shape of Sustainable Environmental Policy 2 Modes of Human Subsistence, Environmental Impacts, and Environmental Policies 3 The Poisoning of the Biosphere: The Petro-dependent Mode of Subsistence PART Il The United States: Prototype Petro-dependent Society 4 Petro-dependent Environmental Policies 5 Violations of Ecological Principles: Resource Depletion and Pollution 6 Living in the State of Denial: Conflict and the Contamination of Workplaces, Communities, and Citizens 7 Broken Promises: Environmental Injustices 8 Petro-dependent Obstacles to Sustainable Policies: The Corporate State and Its Institutional and Cultural Reflections PART III Environmental Policy in the Petro-dependent Empire 9 International Environmental Policymaking 10 Global Environmental Problems: Overpopulation, Peak Oil, and Climate Change 11 Sustaining Unsustainability: The Transnational Corporate State PART IV And So . . . 12 Once There Was a Planet in the Way Galaxy. . . APPENDIX Websites and Mission Statements: NGO Partners for the Global Plan of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities References Index

Reviews

Cable looks into why we have had powerful laws that regulate specific impacts on high profile issues while topics tangentially related to our dependence on a petroleum-based economy fall into the 'don't bother me now' category of our collective attention and action... In addition to being an able researcher, Cable is a gifted storyteller... she dedicates most of her work to a broad and deep 'what's wrong with this picture' description of where we are and how we got here... This book puts the blame for our mess right where it belongs - on us as a society. Sustainability, August 2012

Cable looks into why we have had powerful laws that regulate specific impacts on high profile issues while topics tangentially related to our dependence on a petroleum-based economy fall into the 'don't bother me now' category of our collective attention and action... In addition to being an able researcher, Cable is a gifted storyteller... she dedicates most of her work to a broad and deep 'what's wrong with this picture' description of where we are and how we got here... This book puts the blame for our mess right where it belongs - on us as a society. Sustainability, August 2012 Cable offers a sweeping analysis of how humans live outside their means, fostering a false duality between society and biosphere with decidedly unsustainable technological and petroleum energy dependence... Written for a broad audience, the work deftly combines a jargon-free sociological lens on human behavior with biophysical science questions of sustainability. Recommended. - Choice Cable, an experienced and thoughtful environmental sociologist, in her latest book takes on important and difficult issues surrounding the development, implementation, and especially efficacy of environmental policy...This short and accessible book...[i]s well organized, interesting and clearly written. In addition to the broader arguments that run through the book, there are many well-chosen examples of particular environmental problems, events, and legislation that keep the book grounded and engaged with issues that are likely familiar to most undergraduates... [T]his work is nonetheless also worthy of being read by established scholars, since it presents analyses that are relevant to a variety of debates among researchers. - Contemporary Sociology, May 2014

Author Information

Sherry Cable is Professor of Sociology and Faculty Fellow in the Tennessee Teaching & Learning Center at the University of Tennessee. She is the author (with Charles Cable) of Environmental Problems/Grassroots Solutions: The Politics of Grassroots Environmental Conflict.

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