Environment, Society and Natural Resource Management

Theoretical Perspectives from Australasia and the Americas

Edited by Geoffrey Lawrence, Professor of Sociology and Head, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Vaughan Higgins, Associate Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania and Stewart Lockie, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia

As greater significance is placed on the relationship between people and their environment it is increasingly acknowledged that few environmental problems can be solved without considering the social context in which they arise. But what does it mean to incorporate the ‘social’ and what types of social sciences are needed? This incisive book critically reviews the theoretical perspectives that underlie social scientific contributions to natural resource management and argues for both a greater social science presence and for conceptual and methodological clarity within the social sciences themselves.

“对于那些利益ted in land degradation, this book does provide some useful insights, as it is often as a result of poorly integrated land-management strategies that degradation can occur.’
– C. Sullivan, Land Degradation and Development