Towards an Ecosociology

Stevens, Paul

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“…Coevolving in a limited and restricted natural environment, humans, make decisions that violate the ecosystem capacity (Stevens, 2012). Reinforcing social viewpoint based on systems perspective re-invigorates environmental and social sustainability to harmonize with business (Stevens, 2012;Viswanathan, 2012).…”

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Sustainability Practice of a Multinational Oil Company in Nigeria: A Case Study

Anosike¹

2017

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Environmental degradation and socioeconomic dilemma continue to affect agricultural productivity in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. Several works of literature confirm the high level of pollution and contamination of land and water as a result of over 50 years of oil production in the region. The effects of environmental pollution continue to aggravate the hardship of the local people, which generates development friction, threaten oil operation, and mutually contrive relational efforts, by so invoking mistrust between oil companies and the host communities. Sustainability programs of oil companies often provide the channel to engage and promote community relations from which projects are conceived and executed. Despite sustainability efforts of oil companies, the region continues to experience oil spills and environmental degradation.Hence, the current research explores the sustainability efforts of a multinational oil company to establish whether the company's leadership makes environmental considerations and to identify possible corrections that could be adopted to achieve sustainable value. For this purpose, the paper employed a single case study approach using open-ended interview sessions in collecting data. Research data were gathered from a sample of 20 experienced sustainability practitioners of the oil company, partnering nonprofit organizations, and community leaders through face-to-face semi-structured interviews. Data were segmented and categorized. The data analysis process revealed several themes regarding the challenges and shortfalls of sustainability programs in the region. The evidence found suggests that implementing a transparent and inclusive sustainability management system is essential to enable a systems view in contemplating sustainability programs. In so doing, oil MNCs leaders could enable effective environmental consideration in their sustainability programs to help reinvigorate productive agriculture and ensure continuing oil operation.

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Sustainability Practice of a Multinational Oil Company in Nigeria: A Case Study

Anosike¹

2017

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“…23 This scholarship reflects broadly what Dunlap and Catton designated as a 'new ecological paradigm', 10 in which humans -though still distinct from the rest of natureare part of a global ecosystem, and are governed by the same 'ecological laws' as other species, which they cannot flout with impunity. 15 These sociological perspectives on 'environment' play out more concretely when addressing the interactions between 'environment' and 'human health'. We can identify five discrete models for this interaction applied across both social and medical sciences.…”

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Sociology, environment and health: a materialist approach

Fox

Alldred

2016

Public Health

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Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) eprints@whiterose.ac.uk https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Reuse This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. This licence only allows you to download this work and share it with others as long as you credit the authors, but you can't change the article in any way or use it commercially. More information and the full terms of the licence here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Takedown If you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing eprints@whiterose.ac.uk including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request. Sociology, environment and health: a materialist approach Abstract ObjectivesThis paper reviews the sociology of environment and health, and makes the case for a postanthropocentric approach based on new materialist theory. This perspective fully incorporates humans and their health into 'the environment', and in place of human-centred concerns considers the forces that constrain or enhance environmental capacities. Study designThis is not an empirical study. The paper uses a hypothetical vignette concerning child health and air pollution to explore the new materialist model advocated in the paper. MethodsNot applicable: not an empirical paper ResultsNot applicable: not an empirical paper ConclusionA new materialist and post-anthropocentric sociology of environment and health radically reconfigures both sociological theory and its application to research and associated policies on health and the environment. Theoretically, human health is re-thought as one among a number of capacities emerging from humans interactions with the social and natural world.Practically, the focus of intervention and policy shifts towards fostering social and natural interactions that enhance environmental (and in the process, human) potentiality. This approach to research and policy development has relevance for public health practice and policy.

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“…Ecolinguistics is part of a larger ecological 'turn' within social science which includes ecopsychology (Fisher 2002), ecofeminism (Pandey 2011), ecocriticism (Garrard 2011), ecopoetry (Bryson andElder 2002), and ecosociology (Stevens 2012). All of these sub (or super) disciplines incorporate ecological aspects partly to better understand the phenomenon in question and partly to enable the academic discipline to play an active role in address key socio-ecological issues.…”

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Ecolinguistics and Erasure

Stibbe¹

2014

Contemporary Critical Discourse Studies

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Towards an Ecosociology

Cited by 32 publications

References 61 publications

Sustainability Practice of a Multinational Oil Company in Nigeria: A Case Study

Sustainability Practice of a Multinational Oil Company in Nigeria: A Case Study

Sociology, environment and health: a materialist approach

Ecolinguistics and Erasure

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