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David A. Sonnenfeld

Professor

Office: 211B Marshall Hall
Phone: +1.315.470.4931/ 6636
Fax: +1.315.470.6915
Email: dsonn@esf.edu

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Affiliations

• Affiliate Faculty, Department of Sociology, Syracuse University
• Research Associate, Environmental Policy Group, Department of Social Science, Wageningen University, the Netherlands

Education

• S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow, Environmental Policy, University of California at Berkeley, 1998-2000
• Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1996
• M.A., Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1991
• B.A. (Honors College), Independent Scholar, with distinction, University of Oregon, 1973

Research Interests

• Environmental sociology, politics and policy
• Globalization, development and sustainability
• Social studies of science and technology
• East and Southeast Asia
• Field research and historical methods

Current Funding

• Quigley, Dianne (PI), David A. Sonnenfeld (co-PI), and Phil Brown (co-PI), "Ethics Education in Science and Engineering", National Science Foundation Ethics Education in Science and Engineering Grant #GEO-1032754, 2010-13, $397,984.

Recent Publications

• Oosterveer, Peter, and David A. Sonnenfeld. 2012. Food, Globalization and Sustainability. London and New York: Earthscan/ Routledge. [link]
• Sonnenfeld, David A., and Arthur P.J. Mol. 2011. Special Issue on "Social Theory and the Environment in the New World (dis)Order," Global Environmental Change 21 (3), August. [link]
• Mol, Arthur P.J., and David A. Sonnenfeld. 2011 [2000]. Ecological Modernisation Around the World: Perspectives and Critical Debates. Chinese edition, tr. Kun Zhang. Beijing: Commercial Press. [link]
• Montefrio, Marvin Joseph F., and David A. Sonnenfeld. 2011. "Forests, Food, or Fuel? Competing Coalitions and Biofuels Policymaking in the Philippines," Journal of Environment and Development 20 (1), March.
• Sonnenfeld, David A., and Arthur P.J. Mol. 2010. "Urban and Industrial Environmental Reform in Southeast Asia". Pp. 198-228 in The New Political Economy of Southeast Asia, eds. Rajah Rasiah and Johannes D. Schmidt. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
• Smith, Ted, David A. Sonnenfeld, and David N. Pellow, eds. 2009 [2006]. Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry. Korean edition, tr. Jeong-ok Kong. Seoul: May Day Publishers. [link]
• Mol, Arthur P.J., David A. Sonnenfeld, and Gert Spaargaren, eds. 2009. The Ecological Modernisation Reader: Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice. London and New York: Routledge. [link]
• Sonnenfeld, David A., ed. 2008. Special Issue on "Globalisation and Environmental Governance: Is Another World Possible?" Global Environmental Change 18 (3), August. [link]
• Sonnenfeld, David A., and Stewart Lockie, eds. 2008. Special Issue on "Communities, Natural Resources, and Environments," Local Environment 13 (5), July.
• Zhang, Lei, Arthur P. J. Mol, and David A. Sonnenfeld. 2007. "The Interpretation of Ecological Modernisation in China," Environmental Politics 16 (4): 659-66 [link]

Virtual Lecture

• "Ecological Modernization Theory: An Introduction", Renmin University, China, October 2009 (on iTunes U) [link]

Courses

• EST 361, History of the American Environmental Movement (3)
• EST 494, Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies (1)
• EST 603, Research Methods and Design (3)
• EST 612, Environmental Policy and Governance (3)
• EST 797, Chinese Environmental Policy (with Zhen Lin) (1) [link]
• EST 797, Research Ethics in Environmental Research (with Dianne Quigley) (1) [link]

Recently Completed Theses

Doctoral

• Little, Peter C., "'Instead of Tumbleweed, We Have Mitigation Systems': An Ethnography of Toxics Risk, Mitigation, and Advocacy in IBM's Deindustrialized Birthplace," Graduate Program in Applied Anthropology, Oregon State University, 2010
• Sawyer, Scott, "The Politics of Reliability: A Sociological Examination of the State of Vermont's Response to Peak Oil and Climate Change." Dept. of Sociology, Washington State University, 2007
• Burke, Bryan E. "System Building for Sociotechnical Change: An Analysis of the Efforts of Energy-Efficiency Advocates in the U.S. Residential Housing System." Dept. of Sociology, Washington State University, 2006

Masters

• Bell, Kyle, "Building Metrobús: Actors and Institutions in the Transfer of Bus Rapid Transit Policy to Mexico City," Dept. of Environmental Studies, SUNY-ESF, 2011 (chair)
• Jo, Nayoung, "The New Community Movement in South Korea in the 1970s: The Power of Community or Governmental Involvement?" Dept. of Environmental Studies, SUNY-ESF, 2011 (chair)
• Ahmed, Osman Y., "Water Policy and Meteorological Drought in Kenya," Graduate Program in Environmental Science, SUNY-ESF, 2009
• Bisch, Steven J., "Effects of Violent and Nonviolent Video Game Play on Levels of Aggressive Thoughts and Feelings in Sensation Seeking Adults," Murrow School of Communication, Washington State University, 2008

Professional Associations

• International Sociological Association, Research Committee on Environment and Society (RC24)
• American Sociological Association, Section on Environment and Technology
• Rural Sociological Society, Natural Resources Research Group
• International Association for Society and Natural Resources
• Association for Asian Studies
• Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences
• Society for Social Studies of Science
• Switzer Environmental Program, Fellow