Environment and Society: A Critical Introduction, Third Edition, authored by Paul Robbins and published by Wiley-Blackwell on April 4, 2022, offers a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the conceptual tools essential for exploring real-world environmental problems.

This 3rd Edition demonstrates how crucial theoretical approaches—such as environmental ethics, political economy, and social construction—function as powerful conceptual instruments to identify and clarify contemporary environmental issues. Designed for readers without prior background in the subject, the text employs clear language and engaging examples. It begins by meticulously describing nine key conceptual tools before applying them to a diverse range of familiar objects, from bottled water and French fries to trees, wolves, and carbon dioxide, providing deep insight into the intricate relationship between the environment and present-day society.

Divided into two comprehensive parts, the book first delves into major theoretical approaches for interpreting the environment-society relationship, discussing various perspectives on environmental challenges, including new chapters on racialized environments and feminist approaches. Part II then examines a series of objects, each analyzed through a selection of the theoretical tools introduced in Part I. This structure encourages critical thinking about pressing environmental topics such as deforestation, climate change, the global water supply, and hazardous e-waste.

This fully revised Third Edition stresses an even wider array of competing ways of thinking about environmental issues, incorporating additional case studies, up-to-date conceptual understandings, and the newly added chapters mentioned above, making it an indispensable resource for understanding the complexities of environmental studies.

Edition: 3rd
ISBN-10: 1119408237
ISBN-13: 978-1119408239