Sociology 532 - Fall 2005
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.
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
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
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
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
The World-System, States & Natural Resources
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
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
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
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
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 40:5-24Cole 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
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
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.
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
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>.
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O'Connor, James. 1994. "Is Sustainable Capitalism Possible?" Pp. 152-175 in Is Capitalism Sustainable? ed. O'Connor
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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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