"Nature", "environment" and social theory -- The role of the environment historically within social theory -- The uses of "nature" and the nonhuman world in social theory : pre-enlightenment and enlightenment accounts -- Twentieth-century social theory and the nonhuman world -- Right-wing reactions to the environment and environmental politics -- Left-wing reactions to the environment and environmental politics -- Gender, the nonhuman world and social thought -- The environment and economic thought -- Risk, environment and postmodernism -- Ecology, biology and social theory -- Greening social theory.