David A. Sonnenfeld

Professor and Chair

Director, Randolph G. Pack Environmental Institute

Office: 106 Marshall Hall
Phone: +1.315.470.6636
Fax: +1.315.470.6915
Email: dsonn@esf.edu
Summer Office Hrs.: by appt.

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Education:

• S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow, Environmental Politics and 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
• Technological environmental transformation
• East and Southeast Asia
• Field research and historical methods

Recent Publications:

• 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 (in press).
• 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]
• Smith, Ted, David A. Sonnenfeld, and David Naguib Pellow, eds. 2006. Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry. Foreword by Jim Hightower. Philadelphia, Penn.: Temple University Press. [link]
• Sonnenfeld, David A. and Arthur P.J. Mol, eds. 2006. Special Issue on "Environmental Reform in Asia," Journal of Environment and Development 15 (2), June. [link]
• Sonnenfeld, David A. and Arthur P.J. Mol. 2006. "Environmental Reform in Asia: Comparisons, Challenges, Next Steps," Journal of Environment and Development 15 (2): (June): 112-137. [link]
• Sonnenfeld, David A. and Arthur P.J. Mol, eds. 2002. Special Issue on "Globalization, Governance, and the Environment," American Behavioral Scientist 45 (9), May.
• Sonnenfeld, David A. 2002. "Social Movements and Ecological Modernization: the Transformation of Pulp and Paper Manufacturing," Development and Change 33 (1): 1-27. [link]
• Sonnenfeld, David A. 2000. "Contradictions of Ecological Modernisation: Pulp and Paper Manufacturing in South-East Asia," Environmental Politics 9 (1): 235-256.
• Mol, Arthur P.J. and David A. Sonnenfeld, eds. 2000. Ecological Modernisation Around the World: Perspectives and Critical Debates. London and Portland: Frank Cass/ Routledge. [link]

Courses

• EST 612, Environmental Policy and Governance (Spring 2009)
• EST 796, Asian Environmental Policy (Fall 2009)

Current Graduate Students

Doctoral

• Marvin Montefrio, Environmental and Natural Resources Policy
• Xiaoliang Yang, Environmental and Natural Resources Policy
• Peter Little, Applied Anthropology (Oregon State University)

Masters

• Kyle Bell, Environmental Studies
• Nayoung Jo, Environmental Studies
• Qinghua Li, Environmental Studies

Professional Affiliations:

• Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands, Research Associate
• American Sociological Association, Section on Environment and Technology, Secretary-Treasurer (elected, 2006-09)
• International Sociological Association, Research Committee on Environment and Society (RC24)
• Rural Sociological Society, Natural Resources Research Group
• International Association for Society and Natural Resources
• Switzer Environmental Program, Fellow