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CORE ISSUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND RESOURCE SOCIOLOGY SYD 6518 Spring Semester 2016 Thursday Periods 4-6, 10:40 AM - 1:40 PM, Ustler Hall 0108

Instructor / Moderator: Stephen G. Perz, Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law Office: 3115 Turlington Hall Office hours: MWF 12:50 – 1:40 PM Office Phone: 294-7186 E-mail: [email protected]

Course Overview

Environmental and Resource Sociology arose in response to broader environmental concern within and outside of academia, and is now an established specialty within the broader discipline of sociology. This course addresses the origins and current status of ERS, central theoretical debates among ER sociologists, and focal topics of concern to ER sociologists, with emphasis on ERS topics current among ER sociologists at the University of Florida.

This course has multiple goals. First, it seeks to provide a survey of readings on core issues in ERS, and thus serve as the foundation for a larger reading list by ERS graduate students reading for their PhD qualifying exams. Second, it affords an opportunity for ERS graduate students to engage in core ERS issues by leading weekly discussions in which mutual education occurs via social learning. And third, the course provides ERS graduate students the chance to write and present a paper on a relevant ERS topic. The class also incorporates a peer review component to familiarize graduate students with the peer review process used at scholarly journals and increasingly academic conferences.

Required Materials

All readings have been selected on the basis of (among other things) their availability via the web. Therefore, there is no reading packet or book to buy. This is for cost containment, paper conservation, and to focus on primary literature. I will e-mail the readings as PDFs a week or two before they are to be discussed in class.

Grading

Item Percent

Attendance and participation in discussions 20 Presentations of readings 30 Individual project 40 Project presentation 10 Total 100

Attendance and Participation in Discussions. Since the objective of this course is to engage students of sociology in an exchange of sociological ideas, attendance is crucial in order to have a diversity of 2

perspectives represented. I will informally take attendance and encourage contributions from everyone, not to put people on the spot but to broaden discussion.

Presentations of Readings. This semester everyone will share in leading presentations of readings. On a given week, one student will lead the presentation on selected groups of readings, and I will lead other groups. As the number of groups of readings varies, we’ll negotiate this, but in general the expectation is that the workload in leading presentations will end up being roughly even among all class participants (including the professor) by the end of the semester. It is up to you and I as professor to decide how best to structure your presentations. You are welcome to incorporate other reading material (though the rest of the class is not required to read it) and your own experiences. In class, each person is expected to present. Your presentation should run about 15 minutes, and emphasize the underlying assumptions, implications, advances and oversights of the ideas in the reading, rather than just a straight summary. Presentations are intended to stimulate discussion, so you should conclude your presentation with 2-4 discussion questions.

Individual Project. This course covers a variety of topics, but it is nonetheless selective. Therefore, you are expected to develop an individual project paper on a topic of your choice. The topic can be one from among the assigned readings, but your project needs to go beyond that and provide a more in-depth examination. The choice of topic is up to you, but you must send me a title and abstract before proceeding (see the course schedule for deadlines). The topic can be highly theoretical or applied, and can come from your own research. If you are not sure what you want to do, take a look at the course schedule, skim some of the readings, do some on-line searches, talk to your colleagues, and/or consult me. I encourage you to pick a topic for a paper that will serve a purpose beyond this class, ideally a literature review for your qualifying exams or proposal or (better still) a paper for a professional conference or even a journal. Once I’ve approved the abstract, your task is to produce a paper of ~20-25 pages of text double-spaced (plus tables, references, etc.). Drafts of project papers are due to me by e- mail one week before they are to be presented (see course schedule for deadlines). This will allow everyone a chance to see the papers prior to their presentation.

Project Presentation. During the last class meeting, everyone will present their project paper. Project presentations should follow the guidelines for presentations of readings. That is, they should run ~15 minutes, highlight implications, and conclude with questions. We’ll then allow 20-30 minutes for discussion of the project paper.

University Policies and Services

Honesty: As a result of completing the registration form at the University of Florida, every student has signed the following statement: "I understand that the University of Florida expects its students to be honest in all their academic work. I agree to adhere to this commitment to academic honesty and understand that my failure to comply with this commitment may result in disciplinary action up to and including expulsion from the University."

Accommodation for students with disabilities: Students requesting classroom accommodation must first register with the Dean of Students Office. The Dean of Students Office will provide documentation to the student who must then provide this documentation to the Instructor when requesting accommodation.

UF Counseling Services: Resources are available on-campus for students having personal problems or lacking a clear career and academic goals which interfere with their academic performance. These resources include: 1. University Counseling Center, 392-1575, www.counsel.ufl.edu, personal and career counseling; 2. Student Mental Health, Student Health Care Center, 392-1575, www.health.ufl.edu/shcc, personal counseling; 3. Center for Sexual Assault/Abuse, Student Health Care Center, 392-1161, sexual counseling; 4. Career Resource Center, Reitz Union, 392-1601, www.crc.ufl.edu, career development assistance and counseling.

*TENTATIVE* COURSE SCHEDULE AND READINGS CORE ISSUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND RESOURCE SOCIOLOGY

Week 1 – 7 January – Introductions

Introduction

Syllabus

Week 2 – 14 January – Antecedents and Influences on ERS

Human Ecology

Park, Robert. 1936. “Human Ecology.” American Journal of Sociology. 42(1): 1-15.

Duncan, O.D., L.F. Schnore and P.H. Rossi. 1959. “Cultural, Behavioral, and Ecological Perspectives in the Study of Social Organization.” American Journal of Sociology 65(2): 132-153.

Catton, William R., Jr. 1994. “Foundations of Human Ecology.” Sociological Perspectives. 37(1): 75-95.

Political Ecology

Greenberg, J.B. and T.K. Park. 1994. “Political Ecology.” Journal of Political Ecology 1(1): 1-12.

Bryant, R.L. 1997. “Beyond the Impasse: The Power of Political Ecology in Third World Environmental Research.” Area 29(1): 5-19.

Vayda, A. and B. Walters. 1999. “Against Political Ecology.” Human Ecology 27(1): 167-179.

Ecological Marxism

Foster, J.B. 1995. “Marx and Ecology.” Monthly Review 47(3): 108-124.

Burkett, Paul. 2001. Review of Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism. Monthly Review 50(9): 47- 57. 4

Foster, J.B. 1999. “Marx’s Theory of Metabolic Rift: Classical Foundations for Environmental Sociology.” American Journal of Sociology. 105(2):366-405.

Harvey, D. 1998. “Marxism, metaphors, and ecological politics.” Monthly Review 49(11): 17-31.

Week 3 – 21 January – The Emergence and Status of ERS

Beginnings and Reflections

Catton, W.R. Jr. and R.E. Dunlap. 1979. “Environmental Sociology.” Annual Review of Sociology 5: 243- 273.

Freudenberg, W.R. 2008. “Thirty Years of Scholarship on Environment-Society Relationships.” Organization and Environment 21(4): 449-459.

Perspectives, Debates and Reviews

Laska, S.B. 1993. “Environmental Sociology and the State of the Discipline.” Social Forces 72(1): 1-17.

Buttel, F.H. 2002. “Environmental Sociology and the Sociology of Natural Resources: Institutional Histories and Intellectual Legacies.” Society and Natural Resources 15(3): 205-211.

Dunlap, R.E. and W.R. 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(3): 239-249.

Belsky, J.M. 2002. “Beyond the Natural Resource and Environmental Sociology Divide: Insights from a Transdisciplinary Perspective.” Society and Natural Resources 15(3): 269-280.

Mol, A.J.P. 2006. “From Environmental Sociologies to Environmental Sociology? A Comparison of US and European Environmental Sociology.” Organization and Environment 19(1): 5-27.

Pellow, D. and H. Nyseth Brehm. 2013. “An Environmental Sociology for the Twenty-First Century.” Annual Review of Sociology 39: 229-250.

Week 4 – 28 January – Theory, part 1: Treadmills and Ecological Modernization

Treadmills

Gould, K., D. Pellow, and A. Schnaiberg. 2004. “Interrogating the Treadmill of Production: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Treadmill, But Were Afraid to Ask.” Organization & Environment. 17(3):296-316.

Buttell, F.H. 2004. “The Treadmill of Production: An Appreciation, Assessment, and Agenda for Research.” Organization and Environment 17(3): 323-336. 5

Wright, E.O. 2004. “Interrogating the Treadmill of Production: Some Questions I Still Want to Know About and Am Not Afraid to Ask.” Organization and Environment 17(3): 317- 322.

Foster, J.B. 2005. “The Treadmill Of Accumulation: Schnaiberg’s Environment and Marxian Political Economy.” Organization and Environment 18(1): 7-18.

Ecological Modernization

Buttel, F.H. 2000. “Ecological Modernization as Social Theory.” Geoforum 31: 57-65.

Mol, A.P.J. and G. Spaargaren. 2000. “Ecological Modernization Theory in Debate: A Review.” Environmental Politics 9(1): 17-49.

Fisher, D.R. and W.R. Freudenburg. 2001. “Ecological Modernization and its Critics: Assessing the Past and Looking Toward the Future.” Society and Natural Resources. 14: 701-709.

York, R. and E.A. Rosa. 2003. “Key Challenges to Ecological Modernization Theory: Institutional Efficacy, Case Study Evidence, Units of Analysis, and the Pace of Ecoefficiency.” Organization & Environment 16(3): 273-288.

Foster, J.B. 2012. “The Planetary Rift and the New Human Exemptionalism: A Political-Economic Critique of Ecological Modernization Theory.” Organization and Environment 25: 211-237.

Week 5 – 4 February – Theory, part 2: Other Perspectives and New Proposals

DEADLINE TO SUBMIT PAPER TOPICS

Risk Society

Beck, U. 1992. “From Industrial Society to the Risk Society: Questions of Survival, Social Structure and Ecological Enlightenment.” Theory, Culture and Society 9(1): 97-123.

Cable, S., T.E. Shriver and T.L. Mix. 2008. “Risk Society and Contested Illness: The Case of Nuclear Weapons Workers.” American Sociological Review 73: 380-401.

Post-EMT: Environmental Flows

Mol, A.P.J. and G. Spaargaren. 2005. “From Additions and Withdrawals to Environmental Flows: Reframing Debates in the Environmental Social Sciences.” Organization and Environment 18: 91- 107.

Grant, D. 2009. Review of Governing Environmental Flows. American Journal of Sociology 114(5): 1529- 1531.

Bridge, G. 2007. Review of Governing Environmental Flows. Economic Geography 83(4): 449-450.

More Ecological Marxism and Beyond

York, R. and P. Mancus. 2009. “Critical Human Ecology: Historical Materialism and Natural Laws.” Sociological Theory 27(2): 122-149.

Pountain, D. 2012. “The People’s Flag is Deepest Green.” Review of Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth, by J.B. Foster, B. Clark and R. York. The Political Quarterly 82(3): 489-492.

Howard, E. 2012. Review of Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth, by J.B. Foster, B. Clark and R. York. New Political Science 34(2): 252-254.

Week 6 – 11 February – Environmental Concern and Cultural Cognition

Attitudes and Behaviors

Theodori, Gene L. and Al Luloff. 2002. “Position on Environmental Issues and Engagement in Pro- Environmental Behaviors.” Society and Natural Resources. 15(7): 471-482.

Aoyagi-Usui, Midori, Henk Vinken and Atsuko Kuribayashi. 2003. “Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors: An International Comparison.” Human Ecology Review. 10(1):23-31.

Barkan, S.E. 2004. “Explaining Public Support for the Environmental Movement: A Civic Voluntarism Model.” Social Science Quarterly 85: 913-937.

Brulle, R.J., J. Carmichael, and J.C. Jenkins. 2012. “Shifting Public Opinion on Climate Change: An Empirical Assessment of Factors Influencing Concern over Climate Change in the US, 2002-2010.” Climate Change 114: 169-188.

Cultural Cognition and Environmental Concern

Kahan, D.M. 2012. “Cultural Cognition as a Conception of the Cultural Theory of Risk.” Chap. 28 (pp. 725- 759) in Handbook of Risk Theory, eds. S. Roser, R. Hillerbrand, P. Sandin, and M. Peterson. Berlin: Springer Science+Business Media.

Kahan, D.M, E. Peters, M. Wittlin, P. Slovic, L. Larrimore Ouellette, D. Braman, and G. Mandel. 2012. “The polarizing impact of science literacy and numeracy on perceived climate change risks.” Nature Climate Change 2: 732–735

Overdevest, C. and L. Christensen. 2013. “Using ‘Cultural Cognition’ to Predict Environmental Risk Perceptions in a Florida Water-supply Planning Process.” Society and Natural Resources 26(9): 987- 1001.

Brulle, R.J. 2010. “From Environmental Campaigns to Advancing the Public Dialogue: Environmental Communication for Civic Engagement.” Environmental Communication 4: 82-98. 7

Week 7 – 18 February – Social Movements and Environmental Mobilization

Dynamics in Environmental Organizations and Movements

Schlosberg, D. and J.S. Dryzek. 2002. “Political Strategies of American Environmentalism: Inclusion and Beyond.” Society and Natural Resources. 15(9): 787-804.

McCormick, S. 2006. “The Brazilian Anti-Dam Movement: Knowledge Contestation as Communicative Action.” Organization and Environment 19(3): 321-346.

Popular Epidemiology and Citizen Science

Brown, P. 1997. “Popular Epidemiology Revisited.” Current Sociology 45: 137-156.

Frickel, S. 2004. “Just Science? Organizing Scientist Activism in the US Environmental Justice Movement.” Science as Culture 13(4): 449-469.

Blue-green Coalitions

Gould, K.A., T.L. Lewis, and J.T. Roberts. 2004. “Blue-Green Coalitions: Constraints and Possibilities in the Post 9-11 Political Environment.” Journal of World-Systems Research. 10(1): 91-116.

Mayer, B. 2009. “Cross-Movement Coalition Formation: Bridging the Labor-Environment Divide." Sociological Inquiry 79(2): 219-239

Networks

Manring, S.L. 2007. “Creating and Managing Interorganizational Learning Networks to Achieve Sustainable Ecosystem Management.” Organization and Environment 20(3): 325-346.

McAteer, E. and S. Pulver. 2009. “The Corporate Boomerang: Shareholder Transnational Advocacy Networks Targeting Oil Companies in the Ecuadorian Amazon.” Global Environmental Politics 9(1): 1- 30.

Ackland, R. and M. O’Neil. 2011. “Online Collective Identity: The Case of the Environmental Movement.” Social Networks 33: 177-190.

Week 8 – 25 February – Gender Inequality and Ecofeminism

Overviews and Theoretical Debates

Seager, J. 2003. “Rachel Carson Died of Breast Cancer: The Coming Age of Feminist Environmentalism.” Signs 28(3): 945-972.

Banerjee, D., and M.M. Bell. 2007. “Ecogender: Locating Gender in Environmental Social Science.” Society and Natural Resources 20(1): 3-19.

Leach, M. 2007. “Earth Mother Myths and Other Ecofeminist Fables: How a Strategic Notion Rose and Fell.” Development and Change 38(1): 67-85.

Moore, N. 2008. “The Rise and Rise of Ecofeminism as a Development Fable: A Response to Melissa Leach’s ‘Earth Mother Myths and Other Ecofeminist Fables: How a Strategic Notion Rose and Fell.’” Development and Change 39(3): 461-475.

Empirical Studies

Nightingale, A. 2006. “The Nature of Gender: Work, Gender and Environment.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 24(2): 165-185.

Rocheleau, D. and D. Edmunds. 1997. “Women, Men and Trees: Gender, Power and Property in Forest and Agrarian Landscapes.” World Development 25(8): 1351-1371.

Agarwal, B. 2001. “Participatory Exclusions, Community Forestry, and Gender: An Analysis of South Asia and a Conceptual Framework.” World Development 29(10): 1623-1648.

Harris, L.M. 2006. “Irrigation, Gender, and Social Geographies of the Changing Waterscapes of Southeastern Anatolia.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 24(2): 178-213.

Hallum-Montes, R. 2009. “Agricultural Development, Environmental Degradation, and Women’s Work in Highland Guatemala.” Forthcoming in The Latinamericanist 53: 5-28.

Week 9 – 3 March – SPRING BREAK, NO CLASSES

Week 10 – 10 March – Environmental Hazards and Environmental Justice

Environmental Hazards and Responses to Disasters

Kroll-Smith, S. S.R. Couch, and B.K. Marshall. 1997. “Sociology, Extreme Environments, and Social Change.” Current Sociology 45(3): 1-18.

Gramling, R. and N. Krogman. 1997. “Communities, Policy and Chronic Technological Disasters.” Current Sociology 45(3): 41-57.

Picou, S.J., B.K. Marshall, and D.A. Gill. 2004. “Disaster, Litigation, and the Corrosive Community.” Social Forces 82(4): 1493-1522.

Environmental Inequality and Environmental Justice

Pellow, D.N. 2000. "Environmental Inequality Formation: Toward a Theory of Environmental Injustice." American Behavioral Scientist 43(4): 581-601. 9

Bullard, R.D., P. Mohai, R. Saha, and B. Wright. 2007. Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty 1987-2007. Report Prepared for the United Church of Christ, Justice and Witness Ministries. Available at www.ejrc.cau.edu/twart-light.pdf. 167 pages. (Read thru chap 3, then chap 8)

Schroeder, R., K. St. Martin, B. Wilson, and D. Sen. 2008. “Third World Environmental Justice.” Society and Natural Resources 21: 547-555.

Mohai, P., D. Pellow, and J.T. Roberts. 2009. “Environmental Justice.” Annual Review of Environment and Resources 34: 405-430.

Lynch, M.J. and P.B. Stretesky. 2012. “Native Americans and Social and Environmental Justice: Implications for Criminology.” Social Justice 38: 104-124.

Week 11 – 17 March – Environmental Crime and Green Criminology

Overviews

South, N. 2014. “Green Criminology: Reflections, Connections, Horizons.” International Journal for Crime, Justice, and Social Democracy 3: 5-20.

Gibbs, C., M.L. Gore, E.F. McGarrell, and L. Rivers III. 2010. “Introducing Conservation Criminology: Towards Interdisciplinary Research on Environmental Crimes and Risks.” British Journal of Criminology 50: 124-144.

Environmental Sociology and Green Criminology

Zilney, L.A., D. McGurrin, and S. Zahran. 2006. “Environmental Justice and the Role of Criminology.” Criminal justice Review 31: 47-62.

Long, M.A., P.B. Stretesky, M.J. Lynch, and E. Fenwick. 2012. Crime in the Coal Industry: Implications for Criminology and the Treadmill of Production. Organization and Environment. Proofs 19 pages.

Criminology and Green Criminology

White, R. 2009. “Researching Transnational Environmental Harm: Toward and Eco-Global Criminology.” International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice 33: 229-248.

Wolf, B. 2011. “’Green Collar Crime: Environmental Crime and Justice in a Sociological Perspective.” Sociology Compass 5/7: 499-511.

Prominent Topics for Green Criminology

Agnew, R. 2011. “Dire Forecast: A Theoretical Model of the Impact of Climate Change on Crime.” Theoretical Criminology 16: 21-42.

Ruggiero, V. and N. South. 2013. “Green Criminology and the Crimes of the Economy: Theory, Research and Praxis.” Critical Criminology 21: 359-373.

Week 12 – 24 March – Institutions and Environmental Governance

States and Markets in Governance

Knill, C. and D. Lehmuhl. 2002. “Private Actors and the State: Internationalization and Changing Patterns of Governance.” Governance, 15(1): 41-63.

Common Pool Resources

Ostrom, E. and J. Burger, C.B. Field, R.B. Norgaard, and D. Policansky. 1999. “Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges.” Science 284: 278-282.

Ostrom, E. 2009. “A General Framework for Analyzing Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems.” Science 325: 419-422.

Optional reading for the brave: Ostrom, E. 1999. “Coping with Tragedies of the Commons.” Annual Review of Political Science 2(1): 493- 535.

Global Environmental Governance

Sonnenfeld, David A and Mol, Arthur P. J. 2002. “Globalization and the Transformation of Environmental Governance: An Introduction.” American Behavioral Scientist 45(9): 1318-1339.

Biermann, F. and P. Pattberg. 2008. “Global Environmental Governance: Taking Stock, Moving Forward.” Annual Review of Environment and Resources 33: 277-294.

Multi-level Governance

Lemos, M.C. and A. Agrawal. 2006. “Environmental Governance.” Annual Review of Environment and Resources 31: 297-325.

Batterbury, S.P.J. and J.L. Fernando. 2006. “Rescaling Governance and the Impacts of Political and Environmental Decentralization: An Introduction.” World Development 34(11): 1851-1863.

Newig, J. and O. Fritsch. 2009. “Environmental Governance: Participatory, Multi-level – and Effective?” Environmental Policy and Governance 19(3): 197-214.

Reed, M.G. and S. Bruyneel. 2010. “Rescaling Environmental Governance, Rethinking the State: A Three- dimensional View.” Progress in Human Geography 1-8.

Week 13 – 31 March – Development and Globalization

Ecologically Unequal Exchange

Rice, J. 2009. “The Transnational Organization of Production and Uneven Environmental Degradation and Change in the World Economy.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 50(3-4): 215- 236.

Bunker, S.G. 2005. “How Ecologically Uneven Development Puts the Spin on the Treadmill of Production.” Organization and Environment 18(1): 38-54.

Oliver, C. 2005. “The Treadmill of Production under NAFTA: Multilateral Trade, Environmental Regulation, and National Sovereignty.” Organization and Environment 18(1): 55-71.

Ciccantell, P. and D.A. Smith. 2009. “Rethinking Global Commodity Chains: Integrating Extraction, Transport and Manufacturing.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 50(3-4): 361-384.

Roberts, T.J. and B.C. Parks. 2009. “Ecologically Unequal Exchange, Ecological Debt, and Climate Justice: The History and Implications of Three Related Ideas for a New Social Movement.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 50(3-4): 385-409.

Jorgensen, A.K. and B. Clark. 2009. “The Economy, Military, and Ecologically Unequal Exchange Relationships in Comparative Perspective: A Panel Study of the Ecological Footprints of Nations, 1975-2000.” Social Problems 56(4): 621-646.

Land Use Change

Jorgensen, A.K., C. Dick and K. Austin. 2010. “The Vertical Flow of Primary Sector Exports and Deforestation in Less-Developed Countries: A Test of Ecologically Unequal Exchange Theory.” Society and Natural Resources 23(9): 888-897.

Rindfuss, R., B. Entwisle, S.J. Walsh, C.F. Mena, C.M. Erlien, and C.L. Gray. 2007. “Frontier Land Use Change: Synthesis, Challenges, and Next Steps.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 97(4): 739-754.

Rudel, T.K. 2009. “How Do People Transform Landscapes? A Sociological Perspective on Suburban Sprawl and Tropical Deforestation.” American Journal of Sociology 115(1): 129-154.

Week 14 – 7 April – Student Paper Presentations

Week 15 – 14 April – Student Paper Presentations

Week 16 – 21 April – NO CLASS – STUDENT PAPERS DUE