Community‐based adaptation (CBA) has emerged over the last decade as an approach to
empowering communities to plan for and cope with the impacts of climate change. While …

“This is not only the best environmental sociology text I've used, but it is the best text of any
type I've used in college-level teaching.”–Dr. Cliff Brown, University of New Hampshire Join …

A recurrent critique of the proposition of a causal relation between environmental change
and social conflict is that it fails to account for the complexities and dynamics of processes of …

This paper examines sustainable agriculture's steady rise as a legitimate farm management
system. In doing this, it offers an account of social change that centers on trust and its …

Purpose–The purpose in this paper has been to draw from literature to understand the not‐
so‐direct or non‐implicit impacts of environmental regulations and propose some …

This paper examines the epistemic barriers to sustainable agriculture, which are those
aspects of food production that are not readily revealed by direct perception: such as …

What is an environmental problem? Philosophers of science and sociologists of knowledge
have been writing for more than a decade about the de-centred, multiple object. Yet what if …

Building off of the path-breaking works of Roy Bhaskar—and in particular his philosophical
position of critical realism—this paper works toward a realignment of sociology with the life …

Through an in-depth examination of the interactions between the South African government
and the international AIDS control regime, Jeremy Youde examines not only the emergence …

This article examines the “voices of the Others” of internal orientalism in the United States.
Internal orientalism creates a binary of the imagined spaces of “America” and “the South,” …