"Report of the American Sociological Association's Task Force on Sociology and Global Climate Change." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sociology and global climate change: introduction / Robert J. Brulle and Riley E. Dunlap -- The human (anthropogenic) driving forces of global climate change / Eugene A. Rosa, Thomas K. Rudel, Richard York, Andrew K. Jorgenson, and Thomas Dietz -- Organizations and markets / Charles Perrow and Simone Pulver -- Consumption and climate change / Karen Ehrhardt-Martinez and Juliet B. Schor with Wokje Abrahamse, Alison Hope Alkon, Jonn Axsen, Keith Brown, Rachel L. Shwom, Dale Southerton, and Harold Wilhite -- Climate justice and inequality / Sharon L. Harlan, David N. Pellow, and J. Timmons Roberts with Shannon Elizabeth Bell, William G. Holt, and Joane Nagel -- Adaptation to climate change / JoAnn Carmin, Kathleen Tierney, Eric Chu, Lori M. Hunter, J. Timmons Roberts, and Linda Shi -- Mitigating climate change / Karen Ehrhardt-Martinez, Thomas K. Rudel, Kari Marie Norgaard, and Jeffrey Broadbent -- Civil society, social movements, and climate change / Beth Schaefer Caniglia, Robert J. Brulle, and Andrew Szasz -- Public opinion on climate change / Rachael L. Shwom, Aaron M. McCright, Steven R. Brechin with Riley E. Dunlap, Sandra T. Marquart-Pyatt, and Lawrence C. Hamilton -- Challenging climate change: the denial countermovement / Riley E. Dunlap and Aaron M. McCright -- The climate change divide in social theory / Robert J. Antonio and Brett Clark -- Methodological approaches for sociological research on climate change / Sandra T. Marquart-Pyatt, Andrew K. Jorgenson, and Lawrence C. Hamilton -- Bringing sociology into climate change research and climate change into sociology: concluding observations / Riley E. Dunlap and Robert J. Brulle.