1 Introduction: Studying Environmental Issues Sociologically = 1
Part I Cultures of Movement: The Sociology of Environmental Movements and Problems = 5
2 Social Movement Theory and the Character of Environmental Social Movements = 7
3 Shell, a Sure Target for Global Environmental Campaigning? = 26
4 How Environmental Problems Come to be `Global': Sociological Perspectives on the Globalisation of the
Environment = 41
Part II Studies of Environment, Law and Public Policy = 55
5 Bog Standards: Contesting Conservation Value at a Public Inquiry = 57
6 Independence and Impartiality in Legal Defences of the Environment = 75
7 Modelling the Environment: Participation, Trust and Legitimacy in Urban Air-Quality Models = 89
Part III Cultures of Knowing and Proving: Science, Evidence and the Environment = 111
8 Green Ambivalence about Science = 113
9 Mad about the Buoy: Trust and Method in the Brent Spar Controversy = 144
10 Genetically Modified Organisms and the Unbearable Irresolution of Testing = 159
11 The Value of Environmental Sociology: Towards a Sociology of the Sustainable Society = 176
Notes = 185
Bibliographical References = 192
Index = 200
Part I Cultures of Movement: The Sociology of Environmental Movements and Problems = 5
2 Social Movement Theory and the Character of Environmental Social Movements = 7
3 Shell, a Sure Target for Global Environmental Campaigning? = 26
4 How Environmental Problems Come to be `Global': Sociological Perspectives on the Globalisation of the
Environment = 41
Part II Studies of Environment, Law and Public Policy = 55
5 Bog Standards: Contesting Conservation Value at a Public Inquiry = 57
6 Independence and Impartiality in Legal Defences of the Environment = 75
7 Modelling the Environment: Participation, Trust and Legitimacy in Urban Air-Quality Models = 89
Part III Cultures of Knowing and Proving: Science, Evidence and the Environment = 111
8 Green Ambivalence about Science = 113
9 Mad about the Buoy: Trust and Method in the Brent Spar Controversy = 144
10 Genetically Modified Organisms and the Unbearable Irresolution of Testing = 159
11 The Value of Environmental Sociology: Towards a Sociology of the Sustainable Society = 176
Notes = 185
Bibliographical References = 192
Index = 200