The Handbook of Environment and Society focuses on the
interactions between people, societies and economies, and the
state of nature and the environment. Editorially integrated but
written from multi-disciplinary perspectives, The Handbook of
Environment and Society is organised in seven sections: -
Environmental thought: past and present - Valuing the
environment - Knowledges and knowing - Political economy of
environmental change - Environmental technologies - Redesigning
natures - Institutions and policies for influencing the
environment Key themes include: locations where the environment-
society relation is most acute: where, for example, there are
few natural resources or where industrialization is unregulated;
the discussion of these issues at different scales: local,
regional, national, and global; the cost of damage to resources;
and the relation between principal actors in the environment-
society nexus. 'This is a monumental and timely contribution to
scholarship on society and environments. The hand