Understanding the Global Environment

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Globalization is often discussed in terms of its ecological ramifications. Yet, while ecological imbalance is today one of the greatest threats to mankind, globalization is also a reality that is here to stay. The volume, therefore, seeks to address how globalizing and environmental interests can be reconciled. The essays in this volume state that globalization can work both in favour of and against the environment. The major issues discussed in this topical volume are, how globalization can be used to promote environmental reforms; the role of individuals, private organizations and governments in keeping environmental degradation in check and in promoting environmental reform; globalization and ecological inequality; women, the environment and globalization; changing nature of environmental movements; overpopulation and the ecology; the relation between the ecology and the economy; and the effects of global climate changes.ContentsGlobal Climate Change and Diseases Globalization and the Environmental Menace Environment and Globalization A Sociospatial Approach to Globalization: Mapping Ecologies of Inequality Understanding Environmental Crisis: Locating Common Grounds in Principles and Practices Between Deep and Social Ecologists The Ecology and the Economy: What Is Rational? Population, Overpopulation, and the Impact on the Environment Society and Environment Interface: Impacts and Dilemmas A Sociological Approach to the Destruction of the Ecosystem The Promise of Feminist Political Ecology Women and Biodiversity Environmental Hazard and Reproductive Health of Women Analysing Environmental Disasters Disasters and Disaster Research: A Case Study of Floods in Bangladesh The Social Process of Vulnerability to Disasters and Environmental Crisis in Bangladesh (Re)imagining the Local in Global Environmental Narratives: The Story of Between the Rivers Globalization as Transnationalization and Hybridization: The Changing Face of Environmental Movements The Governance of GMOs and the Constraints for a Redefinition of the Public Arena in Brazil Fly Ash: Environmental and Utilization Perspectives

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Samir Dasgupta (D.Litt.) is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India. He is Director of the College Development Council, University of Kalyani and Member of the Advisory Committee of the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, University of Calcutta. His research interests centre on applied sociology, development studies and sociology of globalization, urban sociology, economic sociology, environment studies, and peace studies. Professor Dasgupta has produced 18 doctoral students to date. His publications include: Economic Sociology (Bengali version), 1983, West Bengal State Book Board; Sociology Through Objective Mirror, 1999, University of Kalyani Publication; Global Malady in the Third World—A Reflection, 2002, Prateeti; The Changing Face of Globalization (ed.), 2004, Sage; Globalization and After (ed. with Ray Kiely), 2006, Sage; Discourse on Applied Sociology: Theoretical Perspectives and Discourse on Applied Sociology: Practising Perspectives (ed. with Robyn Driskell), 2007, Anthem Press. Another volume, Globalization and Humanity and Politics of Globalization, is forthcoming. He is the President, Society for Applied Sociology India (SASI) and a member of the editorial board of the journal, Nature and Culture.