Rural Sociology and the Environment

Download or read book Rural Sociology and the Environment written by Donald R. Field and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1988-11-03 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With increasing awareness of the limits that natural resource reserves and environmental concerns impose on economic growth, rural sociologists have developed new ways of looking at the relationship between man and his environment. This volume surveys changing sociological views of that relationship and explores a holistic, cooperative model of human/nature interaction that reflects the needs of the post-industrial age. In their introduction Field and Burch review significant landmarks in natural resource sociology and comment on some of the underlying aims of rural sociology. The remaining chapters focus on three distinct periods during which rural sociologists have sought to examine man's relationship and adaptation to the environment.