David A. Sonnenfeld

Professor and Chair

Director, Randolph G. Pack Environmental Institute

Office: 106 Marshall Hall
Phone: +1.315.470.4931/ 6636
Fax: +1.315.470.6915
Email: dsonn@esf.edu
Office Hrs.: MW 3-5 pm & 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), Social Science, with distinction, University of Oregon, 1973

Research interests:

• Environmental sociology/ politics/ policy
• Globalization, development, and sustainability
• Technological environmental transformation
• East and Southeast Asia
• Field research and historical methods

Recent Publications:

• Sonnenfeld, David A., ed. 2008. Special Issue on "Globalisation and Environmental Governance: Is Another World Possible?" Global Environmental Change 18 (3), August.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

Affiliations:

• Research Associate and Guest Professor, Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands [link]
• Secretary-Treasurer, Section on Environment and Technology, American Sociological Association, 2006-09 (elected) [link]
• Faculty Affiliate, Sloan Industry Studies Program [link]
• Fellow, Switzer Environmental Program [link]