McCright, A.M. and T.N.Clark (eds) (2006). Community and ecology: dynamics of place, sustainability and politics, Kidlington: Elsevier.
This edited book brings together perspectives from community sociologists and environmental sociologists about human interactions in ecological communities. The authors argue that humans live in social communities that are embedded ecologically within overlapping biophysical environments. The book is divided into three main sections which address the ecological and social significance of place, the challenges of local sustainability, and local environmental politics. A range of methods are used throughout the volume, including ethnographic interviews, participant observation, visual methods, event/action modelling, narrative analysis of archival data, statistical analysis of archival data, and comparative case studies, with international examples of communities in the UK, US, Canada, Finland, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.