Course Outline -- Week 6

ER 290-8
Environmental Sociology

David A. Sonnenfeld, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
Spring 2000

Wk 6 – Society & Natural Resources

Required

Bruce, John and Louise Fortmann. 1991. "Property and Forestry," Journal of Business Administration 20 (1&2):471-96 (R)

Peluso, Nancy. 1993. "Coercing Conservation? The Politics of State Resource Control," Global Environmental Change (June):199-217 (R)

Fortmann, Louise. 1995. "Talking Claims: Discursive Strategies in Contesting Property," World Development 23(6):1053-63 (R)

Buttel, Frederick H. 1996. "Environmental and Resource Sociology: Theoretical Issues and Opportunities for Synthesis," Rural Sociology 61:56-76 (R)

Schurman, Rachel. 1996. "Snails, Southern Hake and Sustainability: Neoliberalism and Natural Resource Exports in Chile," World Development 24(11):1695-1709 (RR)

Peluso, Nancy. 1996. "Fruit Trees and Family Trees in an Anthropogenic Forest," Comparative Studies in Society and History 38(3):510-48 (RR)

Recommended

Peluso, Nancy. 1992. "The Political Ecology of Extraction and Extractive Reserves in East Kalimantan, Indonesia," Development and Change 23(4):49-74 (RR)

Bruce, John, Louise Fortmann, and Calvin Nhira. 1993. "Tenures in Transition, Tenures in Conflict: Examples from the Zimbabwe Social Forest," Rural Sociology 58(4): 626-642 (RR)

Fortmann, L; Antinori, C; Nabane, N. 1997. "Fruits of Their Labors: Gender, Property Rights, and Tree Planting in Two Zimbabwe Villages," Rural Sociology 62(3): 295-314 (RR)

Schurman, Rachel. 1998. "Tuna Dreams: Resource Nationalism and the Pacific Islands' Tuna Industry," Development and Change 29(1):107-36 (RR)

Other

Bonanno and Constance, Caught in the Net

Fairfax, Sally K., et al. 1999. "The Federal Forests Are Not What They Seem: Formal and Informal Claims to Federal Lands," Ecology Law Quarterly 25(4):630-646 (RR)

Fortmann and Bruce, eds., Whose Trees? (V)

Fortmann, Louise and Jonathan Kusel. 1990. "New Voices, Old Beliefs: Forest Environmentalism Among New and Long-Standing Rural Residents," Rural Sociology 55(2):214-232 (RR)

Peluso, Rich Forests, Poor People (V)

Peluso, Nancy, Craig Humphrey and Louise Fortmann. 1994. "The Rock, the Beach and the Tidepool: People and Poverty in Natural Resource-Dependent Areas," Society and Natural Resources 7:23-38 (RR)


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