Course Outline -- Week 11

ER 290-8
Environmental Sociology

David A. Sonnenfeld, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley

Spring 2000

Wk 11 – Environmental Justice

Bullard, ed., Confronting Environmental Racism, intro., ch’s 1, 7-8, 12 (pp. 7-13, 15-39, 107-140, 195-206)

Taylor, Dorceta.  2000.  "The Rise of the Environmental Justice Paradigm," American Behavioral Scientist 43(4):508-580 (RR)

Pellow, David N.  2000.  "Environmental Inequality Formation:   Toward a Theory of Environmental Injustice," American Behavioral Scientist 43(4):581-601 (RR)

Szasz, Andrew and Michael Meuser. 1997. "Environmental Inequalities: Literature Review and Proposals for New Directions in Research and Theory," Current Sociology 45(3):99-120 (R)

Adeola, Francis O.  2000.   "Cross-National Environmental Injustice and Human Rights Issues:  A Review of Evidence in the Developing World," American Behavioral Scientist 43(4):686-706 (RR)

Capek, Stella. 1993. “The Environmental Justice Frame: A Conceptual Discussion and an Application,” Social Problems 40:5-24 (R)

Harvey, "Part IV Prologue," pp. 329-333; and ch. 13, "The Environment of Justice," pp. 366-402 in Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Differences

Mellor, Mary, "Gender and the Environment," ch. 13 (pp. 195-203) in Redclift and Woodgate, eds., International Handbook of Environmental Sociology

Beck, Risk Society (V)

Brown, Phil, No Safe Place (V)

Bryant and Mohai, eds., Race and the Incidence of Environmental Hazards (V)

Bryant, ed. Environmental Justice (V)

Bullard, Dumping on Dixie (V)

Bullard, et al., eds., Unequal Protection (V)

Gottlieb, Forcing the Spring (V)

Kuletz, The Tainted Desert

Mohai, Paul. 1990. "Black Environmentalism," Social Sci. Quarterly 74(4):744-65

Szasz, Ecopopulism (V)

United Church of Christ, Toxic Wastes and Race (V)