Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

Both the causes of and solutions to climate change are grounded in human society. Climate Change and Society summarizes the existing approaches to understanding the social dimensions of climate change from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives, analyzing its origins, impacts, and responses.