• TABLE OF CONTENTS


• Chapter 1: Sociology and Global Climate Change: Introduction


• Robert J. Brulle and Riley E. Dunlap


• Chapter 2: The Human (Anthropogenic) Driving Forces of Global Climate Change


• Eugene A. Rosa, Thomas K. Rudel, Richard York, Andrew K. Jorgenson, and Thomas Dietz


• Chapter 3: Market Organizations and Environments


• Charles Perrow and Simone Pulver


• Chapter 4: Consumption and Climate Change


• Karen Ehrhardt-Martinez and Juliet B. Schor with Wokje Abrahamse, Alison Alkon, Jonn Axsen, Keith Brown, Rachel Shwom, Dale Southerton, Hal Wilhite


• Chapter 5: Climate Justice and Inequality: Insights from Sociology


• Sharon L. Harlan, David N. Pellow, J. Timmons Roberts, Shannon E. Bell, William G. Holt, and Joane Nagel


• Chapter 6: Adaptation to Climate Change: Sociological Perspectives


• JoAnn Carmin, Kathleen Tierney, Eric Chu, Lori M. Hunter, J. Timmons Roberts, and Linda Shi


• Chapter 7: Mitigating Climate Change: Sociological Perspectives


• Karen Ehrhardt-Martinez, Thomas K. Rudel, Kari Marie Norgaard, and Jeffrey Broadbent


• Chapter 8: Civil Society, Social Movements, and Climate Change


• Beth Schaefer Caniglia, Robert Brulle, and Andrew Szasz


• Chapter 9: Public Opinion on Climate Change


• Rachael L. Shwom, Aaron M. McCright, Steven R. Brechin, Riley E. Dunlap, Sandra T. Marquart-Pyatt, and Lawrence C. Hamilton


• Chapter 10: Challenging Climate Change: The Denial Countermovement


• Riley E. Dunlap and Aaron M. McCright


• Chapter 11: The Climate Change Divide in Social Theory


• Robert J. Antonio and Brett Clark


• Chapter 12: Methodological Approaches for Sociological Research on Climate Change


• Sandra T. Marquart-Pyatt, Andrew K. Jorgenson, and Lawrence C. Hamilton


• Chapter 13: Bringing Sociology into Climate Change Research and Climate Change into Sociology: Concluding Observations


• Riley E. Dunlap and Robert J. Brulle

Riley E. Dunlap is Dresser Professor and Regents Professor in the Department of Sociology at Oklahoma State University, and previously served as Boeing Distinguished Professor of Environmental Sociology at Washington State University. He is senior editor of the Handbook of Environmental Sociology (Greenwood Press, 2002) and Sociological Theory and the Environment (Rowman Littlefield, 2002).
Dr. Robert Brulle is a Professor of Sociology and Environmental Science in the Department of Sociology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has published numerous scholarly articles, and is the author of Agency, Democracy and the Environment: The U.S. Environmental Movement from the Perspective of Critical Theory (MIT Press) and, with David Pellow, is the co-editor of Power, Justice and the Environment (MIT Press).

Both the causes of and solutions to climate change are grounded in human society. Climate Change and Society summarizes the existing approaches to understanding the social dimensions of climate change from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives, analyzing its origins, impacts, and responses.