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"Designed to introduce students to key concepts and methods in sociology and to engage them in critical thinking, Ten Lessons in Introductory Sociology provides a brief and valuable overview to four major questions that guide the discipline: * Why sociology? * What unites us? * What divides us? * How do societies change? Deftly balancing breadth and depth, the book makes the study of sociology accessible, relevant, and meaningful. Contextualizing the most important issues, Ten Lessons helps students discover "the sociological imagination" and what it means to be part of an engaged public discourse"--

An introduction to environmental sociology / Kenneth A. Gould and Tammy L. Lewis -- The social construction of nature : of computers, butterflies, dogs, and trucks / Stella M. Capek -- Theories in environmental sociology / Justin Myers -- The state and policy : imperialism, exclusion, and ecological violence as state policy / David Naguib Pellow -- Labor productivity and the environment / Allan Schnaibergand and Kenneth A. Gould -- Corporate power : the role of the global media in shaping what we know about the environment / Elizabeth H. Campbell -- The science of nature and the nature of science / Richard York -- Technological change and the environment / Kenneth A. Gould -- Population, demography, and the environment / Diane C. Bates -- Energy, society, and the environment / Shannon Elizabeth Bell -- Environmental inequality and environmental justice / Michael Mascarenhas -- The sociology of environmental health / Norah Mackendrick -- Producing and consuming food : justice and sustainability in a globalized world? / Jason Konefal and Maki Hatanaka -- From farms to factories : the social and environmental consequences of industrial swine production in North Carolina / Adam Driscoll and Bob Edwards -- Understanding disaster vulnerability : floods and hurricanes / Nicole Youngman -- The sociology of climate change / Laura McKinney -- Normalizing the unthinkable : climate denial and everyday life / Kari Marie Norgaard -- Labor and the environment / Brian K. Obach -- U.S. environmental movements / Jill Lindsey Harrison -- Environmental movements in the Global South / Tammy L. Lewis -- The paradoxes of sustainable development : focus on ecotourism / Kenneth A. Gould and Tammy L. Lewis -- Conclusion : unanswered questions and the future of environmental sociology / Kenneth A. Gould and Tammy L. Lewis.

Green Gentrification looks at the social consequences of urban 'greening' from an environmental justice and sustainable development perspective. Through a comparative examination of five cases of urban greening in Brooklyn, New York, it demonstrates that such initiatives, while positive for the environment, tend to increase inequality and thus undermine the social pillar of sustainable development. Although greening is ostensibly intended to improve environmental conditions in neighborhoods, it generates green gentrification that pushes out the working-class, and people of color, and attracts white, wealthier in-migrants. Simply put, urban greening 'richens and whitens, ' remaking the city for the sustainability class. Without equity-oriented public policy intervention, urban greening is negatively redistributive in global cities. This book argues that environmental injustice outcomes are not inevitable. Early public policy interventions aimed at neighborhood stabilization can create more just sustainability outcomes. It highlights the negative social consequences of green growth coalition efforts to green the global city, and suggests policy choices to address them. The book applies the lessons learned from green gentrification in Brooklyn to urban greening initiatives globally. It offers comparison with other greening global cities.