Study Questions

1. Explain the association of human action and environmental problems.

2. From a functionalist perspective, how has human behavior and our way of life contributed to environmental problems?

3. Explain how women contributed to the environmental justice movement.

4. Identify the six factors related to the construction of an environmental problem. From this perspective, how has climate change been defined as a social problem? Or hasn’t it?

5. How have interest groups and grassroots movements contributed to the success of the environmental movement?

6. What are the strategies of radical environmentalists?