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Overview Ecological Imperialism Env. Social Movements
Marx & Ecology Environmental States Built Environment
Weber & the Environment Political Ecology Ecological Modernization
Consumption Env. Inequality/Gender Sustainable Development
Social Constructionism Env. Inequality/Race  

Sociology 532 - Fall 2005

Topical Readings

Introduction

1. Overview of Environmental Sociology

Essential

Catton, William R. Jr. and Riley E. Dunlap. 1978. "Environmental Sociology: A New Paradigm" The American Sociologist 13:41-49

Buttel, Frederick H. 1987. "New Directions in Environmental Sociology," Annual Review of Sociology 13:465-88 (L)

Gramling, Robert and William R. Freudenburg. 1996. "Environmental Sociology: Toward a Paradigm for the 21st Century," Sociological Spectrum 16:347-370

Dunlap, Riley E. and Eugene A. Rosa. 2000. "Environmental Sociology." Pp. 800-813 in Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd ed., Vol. 2., eds. Edgar F. Borgatta and Rhonda J.V. Montgomery (New York: Macmillan). 

Goldman, Michael and Rachel Schurman. 2000. "Closing the 'Great Divide': New Social Theory on Society and Nature, Annual Review of Sociology, 26:533 ff. (L)

Recommended

Dunlap and Michaelson, eds., Handbook of Environmental Sociology

Lutzenhiser, Loren, ed., 2002. "Symposium on Environmental Sociology," Organization and Environment 15(1):1-58. (L)

Redclift and Benton, eds., Social Theory and the Global Environment

Redclift and Woodgate, eds., International Handbook of Environmental Sociology

Other

Bell, An Invitation to Environmental Sociology

Catton, Overshoot

Dunlap, Riley E. and William R. Catton, Jr. 1979. "Environmental Sociology," Annual Review of Sociology 5:243-73 (L)

Dunlap, et al., Sociological Theory and the Environment

Field and Burch, Rural Sociology and the Environment

Freese, Evolutionary Connections

Freudenberg, William R. and Robert Gramling. 1989. "The Emergence of Environmental Sociology," Sociological Inquiry 59:439-452

Goldblatt, Social Theory and the Environment

Humphrey, et al., Environment, Energy, and Society

Laska, Shirley. 1993. "Environmental Sociology and the State of the Discipline," Social Forces 72 (1):1-17 (L)

Mehta and Ouellet, eds., Environmental Sociology

Schnaiberg and Gould, Environment and Society

Szell, György. 1994. "Technology, Production, Consumption, and the Environment," International Social Science Journal 46(2):213-225

Weinberg, Adam. 1994. "Environmental Sociology and the Environmental Movement," The American Sociologist 25:31 ff.

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Theoretical Foundations

2. Marx: Structures of Accumulation & the Environment

Essential

Foster, Marx's Ecology

Recommended

Buttel, Frederick. 2002. "Environmental Sociology and the Classical Sociological Tradition: Some Observations on Current Controversies," pp. 35-50 in Sociological Theory and the Environment, eds. Riley Dunlap, et al.

O'Connor, J., Natural Causes

O'Connor, James. ed. 1999. The Second Contradiction of Capital. CNS Cyberbooks.

Schnaiberg, "The Expansion of Production: Capital, Labor and State Roles," ch. 5 (pp. 205-273) in The Environment

Other

Bunker, Stephen G. 1984. "Modes of Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Progressive Underdevelopment of an Extreme Periphery: The Brazilian Amazon, 1600-1980," American Journal of Sociology 89:1017-1064 (L)

Bunker, Underdeveloping the Amazon

Burkett, Marx and Nature

Dickens, Society and Nature

Dickens, Reconstructing Nature

Foster, John Bellamy. 1999. "Marx's Theory of Metabolic Rift: Classical Foundations for Environmental Sociology," American Journal of Sociology 105(2):366-405.  [full text]

Harvey, David. 1996. "The Dialectics of Social and Environmental Change." Pp. 176-204 in Justice, Nature & the Geography of Difference. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 

Harvey, Conditions of Postmodernity

Marx, Capital, Vol. 1

O'Connor, M., ed. Is Capitalism Sustainable?

Polanyi, The Great Transformation

Smith, N., Uneven Development

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3. Weber: Bureaucracy, Rationality & the Environment

Essential

Murphy, Rationality and Nature

Recommended

Buttel, Frederick H., "Social Institutions and Environmental Change," pp. 40-54 in Redclift and Woodgate, eds., International Handbook of Environmental Sociology

Norgaard, Richard. 1995. "Beyond Materialism: A Coevolutionary Reinterpretation of the Environmental Crisis," Review of Social Economy 53(4):475-492.

Paehlke and Torgerson, Managing Leviathan

Torgerson, Douglas, "Limits of the Administrative Mind: The Problem of Defining Environmental Problems," ch. 9 (pp. 110-127) in Dryzek and Schlosberg, eds., Debating the Earth

Other

Gottlieb, Forcing the Spring

Tarr, The Search for the Ultimate Sink

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4. Consumption & Environment

Essential

Adorno and Horkheimer, "The Culture Industry," pp. 120-167 in Dialectic of Enlightenment

Marcuse, ch. 1, "The New Forms of Control" (pp. 1-12), and ch. 3, "The Conquest of the Unhappy Consciousness" (pp. 56-83) in One-Dimensional Man

Schnaiberg, "The Expansion of Consumption: Does the Tail Wag the Dog?" ch. 4 (pp. 157-204) in The Environment: From Surplus to Scarcity

Recommended

Cohen, and Murphy, eds. Exploring Sustainable Consumption

Mumford, "Normalize Consumption!" pp. 390-400 in Technics and Civilization

Schove, Elizabeth and Alan Warde. 2002. "Inconspicuous Consumption: The Sociology of Consumption, Lifestyles, and the Environment," pp. 230-251 in Sociological Theory and the Environment, eds. Riley Dunlap, et al.

Wilk, "Consumption, Human Needs & Global Environmental Change," Global Environmental Change

Other

Bourdieu, Distinction

Daly, Beyond Growth

Douglas & Isherwood, The World of Goods

Durning, Alan Thein. 1994. "The Conundrum of Consumption." Pp. 40-47 in Beyond the Numbers, ed. Laurie Ann Mazur

Durning, How Much Is Enough?

Ewan, Captains of Consciousness

Goodman and Redclift, Refashioning Nature: Food, Ecology & Culture

Illich, Towards a History of Needs

Schor, Juiliet B., "Can the North Stop Consumption Growth?" pp. 68-84 in Bhaskar and Glyn, eds., The North, the South, and the Environment

Schor and Holt, eds. The Consumer Society Reader

Lury, Consumer Culture

Mazur, ed., Beyond the Numbers

McCracken, Culture and Consumption

Miller, ed., Acknowledging Consumption

Otnes, ed., The Sociology of Consumption

Redclift, Wasted: Counting the Costs…

Redclift and Woodgate, eds., International Handbook of Environmental Sociology

Shiva, Close to Home

Shove, E. and D. Southerton. 2000. "Defrosting the Freezer: From Novelty to Convenience," Journal of Material Culture

Spaargaren, G. 2001. "Theory and Politics of Sustainable Consumption: Outline of a Research Program," unpublished ms.

Special Issue on "Consumption and the Environment," Ecological Economics, 28(3):367-466, Mar. 1999 (L)

Strasser, Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash

Strasser and McGovern, eds., Getting and Spending

Westra and Werhane, eds., The Business of Consumption

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5. Social Construction of Environmental Problems

Essential

Hannigan, Environmental Sociology

Recommended

Downs, Anthony. 1972. "Up and Down with Ecology: the Issue-Attention Cycle," Public Interest 28:38-50

Freudenburg, William R., et al. 1995. "Beyond the Nature/Society Divide: Learning to Think About a Mountain," Sociological Forum 10:361-392

Greider, Thomas and Lorraine Garkovich. 1994. "Landscapes: The Social Construction of Nature and the Environment," Rural Sociology 59:1-24

Rosa, Eugene A. and Thomas Dietz. 1998. "Climate Change and Society: Speculation, Construction, and Scientific Investigation," International Sociology 13:421-455.

Taylor, Peter J. and Frederick H. Buttel. 1992. "How Do We Know We Have Global Environmental Problems?" Geoforum 23:405-416

Other

Burningham, Kate. 1998. "A Noisy Road or Noisy Resident?" Sociological Review 46: 536-563

Harvey, Justice, Nature & the Geography of Difference

Redclift and Benton, eds., Social Theory and the Global Environment

Redclift and Woodgate, eds., International Handbook of Environmental Sociology

Rochlin, Gene I. 1999. "Safe Operation as a Social Construct," Ergonomics 42(11): 1549-1560.

Scarce, Rik. 1997. "Socially Constructing Pacific Salmon," Society and Animals 5(2): 117-135.

Schneider, Joseph W. 1985. "Social Problems Theory: The Constructionist View," Annual Review of Sociology 11:209-229 (L)

Ungar, Sheldon. 1992. "The Rise and (Relative) Decline of Global Warming as a Social Problem," Sociological Quarterly 33:483-501

Ungar, Sheldon. 1995. "Social Scares and Global Warming: Beyond the Rio Convention," Society and Natural Resources 8:443-456

Williams, Jerry and R. Scott Frey. 1997. "The Changing Status of Global Warming as a Societal Problem," Research in Community Sociology 7:279-299

Woodgate, Graham and Michael Redclift. 1998. "From a ‘Sociology of Nature’ to Environmental Sociology," Environmental Values 7:3-24

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The World-System, States & Natural Resources

6. Ecological Imperialism

Essential

Chew, World Ecological Degradation

Recommended

Roberts, J. Timmons and Peter E. Grimes. 2002. "World-System Theory and the Environment: Toward a New Synthesis," pp. 167-196 in Sociological Theory and the Environment, eds. Riley Dunlap, et al.

Goldfrank, et al., eds., Ecology and the World-System

Goldman, Michael. 2001. "The Birth of a Discipline: Producing Authoritative Green Knowledge, World Bank-style," Ethnography 2(2):191-217.

Sachs, Wolfgang. 1993. "Global Ecology and the Shadow of 'Development.'" Pp. 3-21 in Global Ecology, ed. Wolfgang Sachs.

Wheeler, David. 2002. "Beyond Pollution Havens," Global Environmental Politics 2(2): 1-10. (L)

Other

Bunker, Underdeveloping the Amazon

Crosby, Ecological Imperialism

O'Connor, J., Natural Causes

O'Connor, M., ed., Is Capitalism Sustainable?

Redclift, Sustainable Development

Roberts, J. Timmons. 1996. "Global Restructuring and the Environment in Latin America," Pp. 187-210 in R. Korzeniewicz and W.C. Smith, eds., Latin America and the World Economy

WCED, Our Common Future

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7. Environmental States

Essential

Broadbent, Environmental Politics in Japan

Recommended

Jussaume, R. A. 1998. "Globalization, Agriculture, and Rural Social Change in Japan," Environment & Planning A. 30(3):401 ff.

Molotch, Harvey. 1976. "The City as a Growth Machine," American Journal of Sociology 82(2):309-332 (L)

Paehlke, Robert and Douglas Torgerson. 1990. "Environmental Politics and the Administrative State," pp. 285-299 in Paehlke and Torgerson, eds., Managing Leviathan

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

Szasz, Andrew. 1991. "In Praise of Policy Luddism: Strategic Lessons from the Hazardous Waste Wars," Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 2(1):14-29

Other

Dryzek, Politics of the Earth

Fox and Brown, eds., Struggle for Accountability

Hirt, A Conspiracy of Optimism

Jänicke and Weidner, eds., National Environmental Policies

Litfin, ed., The Greening of Sovereignty

Lipschutz and Conca, eds., The State and Social Power

O'Connor, M., ed., Is Capitalism Sustainable?

Paehlke and Torgerson, eds., Managing Leviathan

Richardson, et al., Winning the War of Words

Scott, Seeing Like a State

Sonnenfeld & Mol, eds. 2002. Special issue on "Globalization, Governance & the Environment," American Behavioral Scientist 45(9) (L)

Szasz, Ecopopulism

Vogel, Trading Up

Young, Natural Resources and the State

Young, Resource Regimes

Young, ed., Global Governance

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8. Political Ecology/ Society & Natural Resources

Essential

Peet, Richard and Michael Watts. 1996. "Liberation Ecology: Development, Sustainability, and Environment in an Age of Market Triumphalism." Pp. 1-45 in Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development and Social Movements, eds. Richard Peet and Michael Watts. New York: Routledge.

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

Peluso, Nancy. 1995. "Whose Woods Are These? Counter-Mapping Forest Territories in Kalimantan, Indonesia," Antipode 27(4):383-406

Escobar, Arturo. 1998. "Whose Knowledge? Whose Nature? Biodiversity, Conservation, and the Political Ecology of Social Movements," Journal of Political Ecology 5:54-82. [Online.] Available: <http://www.library.arizona.edu/ej/jpe/volume_5/3escobar.pdf>.

Leach, Melissa and James Fairhead. 2000. "Fashioned Forest Pasts, Occluded Histories? International Environmental Analysis in West African Locales," Development and Change 31(1):35-59 (L)

Recommended

Blaikie, The Political Economy of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries

Blaikie and Brookfield, Land Degradation and Society

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

Buttel, Frederick H. and Craig R. Humphrey. 2002. "Sociological Theory and the Natural Environment," pp. 33-69 in Handbook of Environmental Sociology, eds. Dunlap & Michelson

Goldman, Michael and Rachel Schurman. 2000. "Closing the 'Great Divide': New Social Theory on Society and Nature, Annual Review of Sociology, 26:533 ff. (L)

Leach, Melissa. 2000. "New Shapes to Shift: War, Parks and the Hunting Person in Modern West Africa," Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 6(4):577-595 (L)

Sonnenfeld, David. 1996. "The Ghost of Wesley Vale: Environmentalists' Influence on Innovation in Australia's Pulp and Paper Industry," Competition and Change 1(4): 379-401.

Other

Berry, Chiefs Know Their Boundaries

Berry, No Condition is Permanent

Bonanno and Constance, Caught in the Net

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

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

Buttel, Frederick H. and William L. Flinn. 1977. "The Interdependence of Rural and Urban Environmental Problems in Advanced Capitalist Societies: Models of Linkage," Sociologia Ruralis 17:255-279

Bryant, The Political Ecology of Forestry in Burma, 1824-1994

Bryant and Bailey, Third World Political Ecology

Carroll, Community and the Northwestern Logger

Dunlap, Riley and William Catton, Jr. 2002. "Which Function(s) of the Environment Do We Study? A Comparison of Environmental and Natural Resource Sociology," Society and Natural Resources 15:239-249.

Field and Burch, Rural Sociology and the Environment

Fortmann and Bruce, eds., Whose Trees?

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

Freudenburg, and Gramling, Oil in troubled waters

Gedicks, The new resource wars

Goldman, ed., Privatizing Nature

Greenberg, James B. and Thomas K. Park. 1994. "Political Ecology," Journal of Political Ecology 1(1):1-12. [Online.] Available: <http://www.library.arizona.edu/ej/jpe/volume_1/ascii-foreward.txt>.

Hahn, Steven. 1982. "Hunting, Fishing and Foraging: Common Rights and Class Relations in the Postbellum South," Radical History Review 26:37-64.

Lee, et al., eds., Community and Forestry

Macpherson, Property

McCay, and Acheson, eds. The Question of the Commons

McCay, Oyster Wars and the Public Trust

McEvoy, The Fisherman's Problem

Ostrom, Governing the Commons

Peet and Watts, eds., Liberation Ecologies

Peluso, Rich Forests, Poor People

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

Peluso, Nancy. 1996. "Fruit Trees and Family Trees in an Anthropogenic Forest: Ethics of Access, Property Zones, and Environmental Change in Indonesia," Comparative Studies in Society and History 38(3):510-548.

Peluso, Nancy and Peter Vandergeest. 2001. "Genealogies of the Political Forest and Customary Rights in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand," Journal of Asian Studies 60(3):761-812.

Peluso and Watts, Violent Environments

Rocheleau, et al., Feminist Political Ecology

Roe, Emery M., ed. 1995. Special section on narratives of development and the African environment, World Development 23(6):1007-1069. (L)

Rose, Property and Persuasion

Ryan, Property

Walker, Peter.  "Politics of Nature:  An Overview of Political Ecology."  [Bibliographic review essay.] Available:  <http://www.cruzio.com/~cns/syllabus/walker2.html>. 

Wilk, Richard. (n.d.) "'But the Young Men Don't Want To Farm Any More': Political Ecology and Consumer Culture in Belize." Unpublished ms.

Young, Natural resources and the state

Young, Resource regimes

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Environmental Inequalities

9. Environmental Inequality and Gender

Essential

Agarwal, A Field of One's Own

Recommended

Agarwal, B. 1997. "Environmental Action, Gender Equity and Women's Participation," Development and Change. 28(1):1 ff. (L)

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

Rose, "Women and Property: Gaining and Losing Ground," ch. 8 in Property and Persuasion

Sen, Amartya. 1990. "More than 100 Million Women are Missing," New York Review of Books, Dec. 20, pp. 61-66.

Sturgeon, Ecofeminist Natures

Other

Agarwal, B. 1992. "The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India," Feminist Studies 18(1):119-158. 

Agarwal, B. 1998. "Environmental Management, Equity and Ecofeminism: Debating India's Experience," Journal of Peasant Studies 25(4):55 ff.

Agarwal, B. 2000. "Conceptualizing Environmental Collective Action:  Why Gender Matters," Cambridge Journal of Economics 24(3). 

Blunt & Rose, eds. Writing Women and Space

Jackson, Cecile. 1994. "Gender Analysis and Environmentalisms." Pp. 113-149 in Social Theory and the Global Environment, eds. Redclift and Benton

Jackson, Ceclie. 1996. "Rescuing Gender from the Poverty Trap," World Development 24(3):489 ff.

Jackson, Ceclie. 1998. "Gender, Irrigation, and Environment: Arguing for Agency," Agriculture and Human Values 15(4):313-324

Jackson and Pearson, Feminist Visions of Development

Leach, Rain Forest Relations

Littig, Feminist Perspectives on Environment and Society

Mellor, Feminism & Ecology

Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution

Merchant, Earthcare

Redclift and Woodgate, eds., International Handbook of Environmental Sociology

Sachs, Women Working in the Environment

Salleh, Ecofeminism as Politics

Sandilands, The Good Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy

Schroeder, Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in the Gambia

Shiva, Staying Alive

Silliman & King, eds., Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment, and Development

Strather, Marilyn, After Nature

Warren, Ecofeminism and Why it Matters

Warren, Ecofeminist Philosophy

Warren and Erkal, eds., Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature

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10. Environmental Inequality and Race

Essential

Hurley, Environmental Inequalities

Recommended

Hofrichter, ed. Reclaiming the Environmental Debate

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

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

(Review: Hannigan, "Reconstituting Environmentalism: Environmental Justice as a Defining Concept," pp. 120-125 in Environmental Sociology)

(Review: Murphy, "Environmental Classes and Environmental Conflict," ch. 8 [pp. 163-190] in Rationality and Nature)

Other

Beck, Risk Society

Brown, Phil, No Safe Place

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

Bryant, ed. Environmental Justice

Bullard, ed., Confronting Environmental Racism

Bullard, Dumping in Dixie

Bullard, et al., eds., Unequal Protection

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

Cole and Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement

Faber, The Struggle for Ecological Democracy

Gottlieb, Forcing the Spring

Gregory, Black Corona

Harvey, Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Differences

Hofrichter, ed., Toxic Struggles

Kuletz, The Tainted Desert

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

Mutz, Bryner & Kenney, eds. Justice and Natural Resources

Pulido, Environmentalism and Economic Justice

Roberts & Tofolon-Weiss, Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Front Line

Szasz, Ecopopulism

Taylor, Dorceta. 1997. "American Environmentalism: the Role of Race, Class and Gender in Shaping Activism, 1820-1995," Race, Gender & Class 5(1):16-62.

Taylor, Dorceta, ed. 2000. Special Issue, "Advances in Environmental Justice: Research and Methodology," American Behavioral Scientist 43(4). (L)

Tsoukalas, Theodore. 1998. "Science, Socioenvironmental Inequality, and Childhood Lead Poisoning," Society and Natural Resources 11:743-754.

United Church of Christ, Toxic Wastes and Race

Westra & Lawson, eds., Faces of Environmental Racism

Wright, The Death of Ramon Gonzales

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Resistance & Reform

11. Environmental Social Movements

Essential

Taylor, Ecological Resistance Movements

Recommended

Christen, Catherine, et al. 1998. "Latin American Environmentalism: Comparative Views," Studies in Comparative International Development 33(2):58-87

Escobar, Arturo, Dianne Rocheleau, and Smitu Kothari. 2002. "Environmental Social Movements and the Politics of Place," Development 45(1):28-35. (L)

Hofrichter, ed. Reclaiming the Environmental Debate

Mertig, Angela G., et al. 2002. "The Environmental Movement in the United States," pp. 448-481 in Handbook of Environmental Sociology, eds. Dunlap & Michelson

Sturgeon, Ecofeminist Natures

Other

Bonnano and Constance, Caught in the Net

Brown, et al., No Safe Place

Brulle, Agency, Democracy, and Nature

Dawson, Eco-Nationalism

Dowie, Losing Ground

Dunlap, et al., Public Reactions to Nuclear Waste

Dunlap & Mertig, eds., American Environmentalism

Faber, ed., The Struggle for Ecological Democracy

Freudenburg and Rosa, eds., Public Reaction to Nuclear Power

Gottlieb, Forcing the Spring

Gould, et al., Local Environmental Struggles

Guha, The Unquiet Woods

Jamison, Andrew. 1996. "The Shaping of the Global Environmental Agenda: the Role of Non-Governmental Organisations." Pp. 224-245 in Risk, Environment, and Modernity, eds. Lash et al.

Joppke, Mobilizing Against Nuclear Energy

Keck and Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders

Lee and So, Asia's Environmental Movements

Lipschutz and Conca, eds., The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politics

Lipschutz and Mayer, Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Governance

Luke, Capitalism, Democracy, and Ecology

Luke, Ecocritique

Merchant, Radical Ecology

O'Connor, J., Natural Causes

O'Connor, M., ed., Is Capitalism Sustainable?

Peet and Watts, eds., Liberation Ecologies

Redclift and Benton, eds., Social Theory and the Global Environment

Redclift and Woodgate, eds., International Handbook of Environmental Sociology

Sessions, ed., Deep Ecology for the 21st Century

Smith, et al., eds. Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics

Szasz, Ecopopulism

Walsh, et al., Don't Burn It Here

Yearley, Steven. 1994. "Social Movements and Environmental Change." Pp. 150-168 in Social Theory and the Global Environment, eds. Redclift and Benton

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12. The Built Environment

Essential

Evans, ed., Liveable Cities?

Recommended

Dunlap & Michaelson, eds., Handbook of Environmental Sociology

Taylor, Dorceta. 1998. "The Urban Environment: The Intersection of White Middle-Class and White Working-Class Environmentalism (1820-1950s), Advances in Human Ecology 7:207-292

Other

Abu-Lughod, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities

Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

M. Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

M. Davis, Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

Gottlieb, Environmentalism Unbound

Gregory, Black Corona

Gugler, ed., Cities in the Developing World

Harvey, Social Justice and the City

Inoguchi, et al., eds. Cities and the Environment

Jonas and Wilson, eds., The Urban Growth Machine

Logan and Molotch, Urban Fortunes

Luccarelli, Lewis Mumford and the Ecological Region

Lutzenhiser and Biggart, eds., Market Structure and Energy Efficiency

Marcuse, P., et al., eds. Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order?

Mazmanian and Kraft, Sustainable Communities

Pazzoli, Human Settlements and Planning for Ecological Sustainability

Scott and Soja, eds., The City

Tarr, Search for the Ultimate Sink

Wachs and Crawford, eds., The Car and the City

Weinberg, et al., Urban Recycling

Williams, Stephen W. 1997. "'The Brown Agenda': Urban Environmental Problems and Policies in the Developing World," Geography 82(1):17-26.

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13. Ecological Modernization

Essential

Mol and Sonnenfeld, eds., Ecological Modernisation Around the World

Recommended

Blowers, Andrew. 1997. "Environmental Policy: Ecological Modernisation or the Risk Society?" Urban Studies 34(5-6):845-871

Buttel, Frederick H. 2000. "Classical Theory and Contemporary Environmental Sociology: Some Reflections on the Antecedents and Prospects for Reflexive Modernization Theories in The Study of Environment and Society." In Environment and Global Modernity, eds. Spaargaren, et al.

Cohen, Maurie. 1997. "Risk Society and Ecological Modernisation: Alternative Visions for Post-Industrial Nations," Futures 29(2):105-119

Fisher, Dana and William R. Freudenburg. 2001. "Ecological Modernization and Its Critics: Assessing the Past and Looking Toward the Future," Society and Natural Resources 14:701-709.

Rock, Pollution Control in East Asia

Other

Andersen, Governance by Green Taxes

Angel and Rock, eds., Asia's Clean Revolution

Beck, Ecological Enlightenment, esp. ch. 10, "Sociology and the Ecological Issue"

Beck, Risk Society

Beck, The Reinvention of Politics

Beck, World Risk Society

Beck, Giddens & Lash, eds. Reflexive Modernization

Bond, Patrick. 2000. "Economic Growth, Ecological Modernization or Environmental Justice? Conflicting Discourses in South Africa Today," Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 11(1):33-62.

Bunker, Stephen G. 1996. "Raw Materials and the Global Economy: Oversights and Distortions in Industrial Ecology," Society and Natural Resources 9:419-29

Dryzek, "Industrial Society and Beyond: Ecological Modernization," pp. 136-152 in Politics of the Earth

Dryzek, Rational Ecology

Dryzek and Schlosberg, eds., Debating the Earth

Giddens, Consequences of Modernity, The

Giddens, "Modernity Under a Negative Sign: Ecological Issues and Life Politics," ch. 8 in Beyond Left and Right

Hajer, Politics of Environmental Discourse

Huber, Joseph and David Angel. 1996. "Building Sustainable Industries for Sustainable Societies," Business Strategy and the Environment 5(3):127-36, September

Huber, Joseph. 1997. "Strategies of Sustainable Development in Europe: Towards Industrial Ecology," Social Sciences Review, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, 32(4):65-86.

Lash, et al., eds., Risk, Environment and Modernity

Latour, Bruno. 1998. "To Modernise or Ecologise? That is the Question." Pp. 221-242 in Remaking Reality: Nature at the Millenium, eds. Bruce Braun and Noel Castree. London: Routledge.

Lutzenhiser, Loren. 1994. "Innovation and Organizational Networks: Barriers to Energy Efficiency in the US Housing Industry," Energy policy 22(10):867 ff.

Lutzenhiser, Loren. 2001. "The Contours of U.S. Climate Non-Policy," Society and Natural Resources 14(6):511-523.

Mol, Globalization and Environmental Reform

Mol, Refining Production

Mol, et al., eds., The Voluntary Approach to Environmental Policy

Simonis, Udo E. 1989. "Ecological Modernization of Industrial Society: Three Strategic Elements," International Social Science Journal 121:347-361

Sonnenfeld, David A. 2002. "Social Movements and Ecological Modernization: The Transformation of Pulp and Paper Manufacturing," Development and Change 33(1):1-27.

Spaargaren, G. 2000. "Ecological Modernization Theory and Domestic Consumption," Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 2: 323-335

Spaargaren, G. and A. P. J. Mol. 1992. "Sociology, Environment, and Modernity: Ecological Modernization as a Theory of Social Change," Society and Natural Resources 5(4):323-344.

Spaargaren, et al., eds., Environment and Global Modernity

Weale, New Politics of Production

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14. Sustainable Development

Essential

WCED, Our Common Future, esp. forward (pp. ix-xv), overview (pp. 1-23), ch. 2 (pp. 43-66), and ch. 12 (pp. 308-347)

World Bank. 2002. World Development Report 2003: Sustainable Development in a Dynamic World – Transforming Institutions, Growth, and Quality of Life. Overview. [Online.] Available: <http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2002/09/06/000094946_02082404015955/Rendered/PDF/multi0page.pdf>.

Sachs, Wolfgang. 1993. "Global Ecology and the Shadow of 'Development'."  Pp. 3-21 in Global Ecology,   ed. Sachs

O'Connor, James. 1994. "Is Sustainable Capitalism Possible?" Pp. 152-175 in Is Capitalism Sustainable? ed. O'Connor

Shiva, Staying Alive, Intro., Ch. 1, pp. xiv-13

Norgaard, Richard B. 1999. "Beyond Growth and Globalization," Economic and Political Weekly, September 4, pp. 2570-4.

Recommended

Angel and Rock, eds. Asia's Clean Revolution

Bunker, Stephen G. 1984. "Modes of Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Progressive Underdevelopment of an Extreme Periphery: The Brazilian Amazon, 1600-1980," American Journal of Sociology 89(5):1017-1064. (L)

Harvard Business Review, Business and the Environment

Redclift, Sustainable Development

Wackernagel and Rees, Our ecological footprint

Worster, Donald. 1993. "The Shaky Ground of Sustainability."  Pp. 132-145 in Global Ecology, ed. Sachs

Other

Czech, Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train

Escobar, Encountering Development

Esty, Greening the GATT

Huber, Joseph. 1997. "Towards Industrial Ecology: Strategies of Sustainable Development," Social Sciences Review [Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto] 32(4):65-86.

de Janvry, The Agrarian Question and Reformism in Latin America

Mazmanian and Kraft, Sustainable Communities

O'Connor, J., Natural Causes

O'Connor, M., ed. 1994. Is Capitalism Sustainable?

Pezzoli, Human Settlements and Planning for Ecological Sustainability

Sachs, ed., Global Ecology

Sachs, et al., Greening the North

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