Environmental Crisis
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Social Problems - Fall 2025
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Environmental Sociology
Study of how people interact with their natural environment and how social structures, behaviors, and inequalities shape environmental problems
Sustainable development
Development that seeks environmental protection, economic growth, and social well-being
NIMBY
Not in my back yard
Social construction of environment
Environmental problems are shaped by cultural values, media, politics, and power. A “crisis” is socially defined.
Ecological Modernization
We can address environmental problems through technological innovation and rational planning
Tragedy of the commons
Situation of people acting in their own self-interest over a shared resource, depleting it
Brownfields
Former industrial and commercial sites contaminated by pollutants, requiring clean up before redevelopment
Superfund program
US federal program that identifies and cleans up toxic waste sites
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