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.
- ISBN10 1946201065
- ISBN13 9781946201065
- Publish Date 1 January 1991 (first published 3 November 1988)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Society and Natural Resources Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 137
- Language English