Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-235) and index.
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Introduction: the environment and social theory -- '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 -- Gender, the nonhuman world and social thought -- The environment and economic thought -- Risk, environment and postmodernism -- Ecology, biology and social theory -- Greening social theory.