Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
The authors maintain that rural and environmental sociology have significantly contributed to the knowledge about the relationship between man and his environment. They also highlight the contribution of rural environmental sociology to the discipline of natural resource sociology. The authors address two themes: the history of the study of human-resource relationships, and the evolution of those relationships.Journal of Planning Literature
About the Author
DONALD R. FIELD is currently Associate Dean, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin.WILLIAM R. BURCH, JR., is Hixon Professor of Natural Resource Management in Forestry and Environmental Studies at the Institute of Social and Policy Studies at Yale University.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Eugene A. Wilkening
Introduction: Ecological Visions of Nature in Rural Sociology
The Domination of Nature for Food and Fiber
Expanding the Domain of Nature
Emergence of Nature as a Partner
Rural Sociological Society Natural Resource Research Group Chairs, 1964-1988