The handbook brings together an outstanding group of scholars who have helped redefine the scope of environmental sociology and expand its reach and impact. Their contributions speak to key themes of the subdiscipline-inequality, justice, population, social movements, and health. Chapter topics include environmental demography, food systems, animals and the environment, climate change, disasters, and much more. The emphasis on public environmental sociology and the forward-thinking approach of this collection is what sets this volumeapart.

Chapter 1. Introduction: A 21st Century Public Environmental Sociology (Beth Schaefer Caniglia).- Part I: Inequality, Political Economy, and Justice.- Chapter 2. Intersectionality and the Environment (Christina Ergas).- Chapter 3. Environmental Justice (Rebecca Maung).- Chapter 4. Ecologically Unequal Exchange and Environmental Load Displacement (Jennifer E. Givens).- Chapter 5. Consumption (Annika Rieger).- Chapter 6. Corporations and the Environment (Simone Pulver).- Chapter 7. Just Transitions and Labor (Erik Kojola).- Part II: Energy, Climate, and Health.- Chapter 8. Sociology of Energy(Stephanie A. Malin).- Chapter 9. Risk (Alissa Cordner).- Chapter 10. Sociology and Climate Change (Danielle Falzon).- Chapter 11. Sociology of Disasters (Lori Peek).- Chapter 12. Environmental Factors in Health (Elisabeth Wilder).- Chapter 13. Food Insecurity (Dorceta E. Taylor).- Part III: Culture, the State, and Institutions.- Chapter 14. Animals in Environmental Sociology (Linda Kalof).- Chapter 15. Religion and the Environment (Lynn Hempel).- Chapter 16. Environmental Governance (Dana R. Fisher).- Chapter 17. Green Criminology (Michael J. Lynch).- Chapter 18. War and the Environment (Michael R. Lengefeld).- Part IV: Population, Place, and Possibilities.- Chapter 19. Environmental Demography (Lori M. Hunter ).- Chapter 20. Land Use and Land Use Change (Thomas K. Rudel).- Chapter 21. Structural Human Ecology (Thomas Dietz).- Chapter 22. Environmental Science and Technology Studies (Scott Frickel).- Chapter 23. Towards an Indigenous Environmental Sociology (Kari Marie Norgaard).- Chapter 24. Environmental Movements in the United States (Erik W. Johnson).- Chapter 25. Socio-Ecological Systems (Beth Schaefer Caniglia).