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Closes a collection of essays on the governance of environmental flows amid globalization, reflecting on the fledgling field of environmental flows while also accounting for the broader concern of environmental sociology & political science. The emergence of the environmental flows perspective in light of the sociointellectual context of the development of US & international environmental sociology & political sciences. Key intellectual sources of the environmental flows perspective are discussed, along with how there is continuity in ecological modernization to environmental flows as well as some notable discontinuities. It is concluded that there are two distinct tendencies within environmental social sciences: de-privileging governance & stressing the new character of environmental governance. The potential & shortcomings of the environmental flows perspective are outlined, asserting that global environmental flows indicate how diversified environmental sociology & political science have become. However, while this new research agenda has been advanced, it is contended that issues of power, nation-states, distribution, & identities cannot be dismissed. References. D. Edelman

Closes a collection of essays on the governance of environmental flows amid globalization, reflecting on the fledgling field of environmental flows while also accounting for the broader concern of environmental sociology & political science. The emergence of the environmental flows perspective in light of the sociointellectual context of the development of US & international environmental sociology & political sciences. Key intellectual sources of the environmental flows perspective are discussed, along with how there is continuity in ecological modernization to environmental flows as well as some notable discontinuities. It is concluded that there are two distinct tendencies within environmental social sciences: de-privileging governance & stressing the new character of environmental governance. The potential & shortcomings of the environmental flows perspective are outlined, asserting that global environmental flows indicate how diversified environmental sociology & political science have become. However, while this new research agenda has been advanced, it is contended that issues of power, nation-states, distribution, & identities cannot be dismissed. References. D. Edelman

Comments are made about recent trends in economics & their relationship to the social sciences. The "new classical" approach to economic study is giving way to resource & development approaches in which social processes, market failure, & state intervention are given greater attention. Disagreements & commonalities within these approaches are described. 8 References. D. Generoli

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

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Who Lives in Rural America Today? -- New Directions in Population Change and Diversity -- 1 Unpredictable Directions of Rural Population Growth and Migration -- 2 African Americans in Rural America -- 3 American Indians -- 4 Latinos in Rural America -- Reshuffling and Remaking Rural Families -- 5 What Do Rural Families Look Like Today? -- 6 Older Rural Families -- 7 Rural Children and Youth at Risk -- 8 Rural Women -- 9 Rural Poverty -- Part II: A Transformed Rural Economy -- 10 How People Make a Living in Rural America -- 11 Who Benefits from Economic Restructuring? -- 12 Commuting -- 13 Continuities and Disjunctures in the Transformation of the U.S. Agro-Food System -- 14 Tourism and Natural Amenity Development -- Part III: The Rural Community: Is It Local? Is It a Community? -- Perspectives on Community -- 15 Community Agency and Local Development -- 16 Social Capital -- 17 Civil Society, Civic Communities, and Rural Development -- The Social Institutions That Maintain and Reproduce Community -- 18 The Global/Local Interface -- 19 Competition, Cooperation, and Local Governance -- 20 Religion -- 21 Promoting Educational Achievement -- 22 Rural Health Policy -- Part IV: People and the Environment: Tough Tradeoffs in an Era with Vanishing Buffers -- 23 Transforming Rural America -- 24 Community and Resource Extraction in Rural America -- 25 Fur, Fins, and Feathers -- Part V: Changing National and International Policies: New Uncertainties and New Challenges -- 26 What Role Can Community Play in Local Economic Development? -- 27 Devolution -- 28 Welfare Reform in Rural Areas -- 29 The Impact of Global Economic Practices on American Farming -- 30 Catalytic Community Development -- Conclusion -- References -- Contributors -- Index