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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Origins of the Treadmill Theory
1 The Treadmill of Production as an Outcome of Scientific Methods
The Development of the Treadmill Theory
The Development of Environmental Social Movements
Studying Consciousness Raising and Lowering about the Environmental Impacts of the Treadmill
Individual Responses to the Treadmill, and Its Institutional Grounding: Consciousness Construction and Destruction
Components of the Theory
How Did the Treadmill Theory Differ from Other Contemporary Theories of Environmental Degradation?
The Economy as the Driver of Environmental Degradation
Social Class, Economic History, and the Emergence of a Treadmill Economy
Paradoxes of the Treadmill
2 Why Does the Theory Focus on Production Rather Than on Consumption?
Recycle, Reuse, Reduce?
3 Is the Treadmill a Dialectical or a Linear Change Theory?
The Haves, the Have-Mores, and the Have-Nots
Natural Resource Extraction and Increasing Pollution and Toxicity
Part II: Evolution and Application of the Theory
4 How Has the Treadmill Theory Changed under Growing Globalization of Production since 1980?
Transnationalizing the Treadmill
5 Applying the Treadmill to Socioenvironmental Problems: 1980–2008
Academic Responses to the Treadmill
What Forces Have Limited the Diffusion of the Treadmill in Environmental Sociology?
Have Environmental Movements in the United States or Elsewhere Adopted the Treadmill Theory?
Part III: The Future Role of the Treadmill Theory
6 Is the Treadmill More/Still Useful Today for Ecological Analyses? for Social Analyses?
The Treadmill of Production and Environmental Justice
Class versus Race and the Treadmill
7 What Are the Implications of the Treadmill for the Potential Attainment of Socially and Ecologically Sustainable Development Trajectories?
The Failures of Nonstructural Change
Power, Inequality, and Redistribution
8 Conclusion: The Clarifying Lines of Conflict
Production Trends Accelerating the Treadmill of Production
Will the Treadmill Collapse or Be Dismantled?
Antitreadmill Trends: Resistance and Social Movements
A Convergence of Treadmill Resistance and Crises?
Conclusion
Acronyms
Notes
References
Index
About the Authors
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