Environmental Management and Research Methods in Environmental Social Sciences

Author: Zeng Siyu
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This book is suitable for graduate students and researchers in the field of environmental science, especially researchers in environmental management, environmental ethics, and environmental sociology. It is also suitable for environmental management personnel engaged in research and readers interested in environmental issues. The book mainly includes four parts. The first part introduces the basic concepts of environmental management, summarizing the implementation methods of environmental management in China and abroad from several aspects such as law, administration, economic incentives, technology, public education, and basic voluntary negotiation of non-regulatory means, and provides an overview of the environmental management systems of several Western countries. The second part focuses on the origin and development of environmental ethics, elaborating on the relationship between environmental management and environmental ethics, as well as the environmental ethics perspective of sustainable development. The third part is centered on introducing the thoughts of Western environmental sociology, conducting macro and micro analyses of the roots of environmental problems from cultural and structural perspectives, and proposing corresponding solutions. The fourth part primarily discusses research methods in environmental social sciences, including experimental methods, questionnaire surveys, qualitative surveys, content analysis, scenario studies, policy analysis, and other research methods, as well as relevant data statistical analysis techniques.