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Environmental Sociology: Risk and Sustainability in Modernity examines the encounter between sociology and contemporary environmental issues. It presents the proposal for an environmental sociology considering the dilemmas surrounding sustainable development, ecological modernization, and risk society. In this book, Cristiano Luis Lenzi critically examines these concepts, aiming to show how controversial environmental sociology still is. The book offers a nuanced interpretation of some of the issues and disputes that arise in the debate over these approaches in the sociological literature.

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In Environmental Sociology: Risk and Sustainability in Modernity, Brazilian scholar Cristiano Lenzi revisits longstanding foundational debates and theoretical divides which have conspired to prevent environmental sociology from establishing a strong, holistic identity. Rather than treating ecological modernization (EM), sustainable development (SD), and risk society (RS) as incompatible, he argues that that there is room to profitably combine elements of all three approaches. A must read for those like myself who are actively engaged in the project of rethinking environmental sociology. --John Hannigan, University of Toronto

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Cristiano L. Lenzi is a sociologist and professor of environmental sociology at the School of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities at the University of São Paulo.

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