This is a comprehensive survey and assessment of sociological theories of the relations between societies and their "natural" biophysical environment. It touches on and addresses the major perspectives, focal points and debates in environmental sociology.

This comprehensive survey and assessment of sociological theories of the relations between societies and their 'natural' biophysical environment touches on and addresses virtually all of the major perspectives, focal points, and debates in environmental sociology today. At the same time, the book aims to go beyond an inventory of environmental sociological theory by stressing how new ground can be broken in the articulation of environmental sociology with major classical and contemporary sociological theories.