Dr. Riley Dunlap, 2010 Davinci Fellow, Regents Professor of Sociology at Oklahoma State University, has played a vital and innovative role in creating the field of environmental sociology, one of the most vibrant areas within the discipline of sociology and a key component of international environmental social science. In contradiction to sociologists who failed to consider either the effects of environment on human societies or the impacts of societies on environmental conditions, Dr. Dunlap insisted that human societies are intimately related to the natural environment. The essay written in collaboration with his colleague Dr. William Catton provided the first definition of and justification for a field of environmental sociology. Many if not most colleges and universities now offer courses in environmental sociology and numerous graduate programs offer training in the field.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 22:09:15 +0000
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