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David A. Sonnenfeld
Professor

211B Marshall Hall
1 Forestry Dr.
Syracuse, New York 13210

Phone: (315) 470-4931/470-6636
Email: dsonn@esf.edu

Summer office hours: by appointment

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Affiliations

• Research Associate, Environmental Policy Group, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
• Affiliate Faculty, Department of Sociology, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

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

Current Funding

• Sonnenfeld, David A. (PI), and Xiaoliang Yang (co-PI), "Doctoral Dissertation Research in Science of Science and Innovation Policy: A Global Partnership Approach to Clean Energy Technology Innovation: Carbon Capture and Storage," National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant #SMA-1262278, 2013-15, $25,213.
• Bluemling, Bettina (PI), David A. Sonnenfeld (co-PI), and Lei Zhang (co-PI), "International Environmental Policy Consultancy Project," Small Projects for Innovation of Education and Distance Learning, Wageningen University, the Netherlands, 2012-14, €13,440.
• 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

• *Montefrio, Marvin Joseph F., and David A. Sonnenfeld. 2013. "Global-Local Tensions in Contract Farming of Biofuel Crops Involving Indigenous Communities in the Philippines," Society and Natural Resources 26 (3): 239-253, March  [link]
• Sonnenfeld, David A. 2012. "Rule of Law,"The Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Vol. 7: China, India, and East and Southeast Asia: Assessing Sustainability, eds. Sam Geall, Jingjing Liu, and Sony Pellissery. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing, pp. 320-323 [link]
• Lin, Zhen, *Fan Dai, and David A. Sonnenfeld. 2012. "Resolving Forest Property Rights Disputes in China: The Bailian Case," Systems Research and Behavioral Science 29 (2): 227-231
• 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): 27-49, 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 696, International Environmental Policy Consultancy (with B. Bluemling & L. Zhang) (3-4) [flyer; NL link]
• EST 797, Ethics, Culture and Community-based Environmental Research (with D. Quigley) (1)
• EST 797, Chinese Environmental Policy (with Zhen Lin) (1) [link]

Recently Completed Theses

Doctoral

• Na, Hang Ryeol, "Multilevel Forest Science, Regime and Governance: Case Studies of Korea," Graduate Program in Environmental Science (Environmental and Natural Resource Policy), SUNY-ESF, 2012
• 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

• Webster, Andrea M., "Who Are We Educating About Sustainability? A Quantitative Analysis of Student of Color and Low-income Student Enrollment in Higher Education in New York State, 2009-2010," Dept. of Environmental Studies, SUNY-ESF, 2012 (chair)
• 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)
• 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 (4S)
• Switzer Environmental Program, Fellow