Soc 225b: Environmental Sociology, Politics, and Policy
Spring 2016, Tues 2-4:50pm
Graduate Seminar
Carmen Sirianni
Sociology Department
Brandeis University
Pearlman 210, x62652
sirianni@brandeis.edu
http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/sociology/people/faculty/sirianni.html
Office Hours: Thurs 12-2pm and by appointment
LATTE announcements for notification of snow days and other news
This course examines an array of social movements, civic and nonprofit organizations,
professional and trade associations, and institutional and policy subfields within
environmentalism, especially but not exclusively within the United States. We examine
perspectives especially from sociology, although with interdisciplinary links to political science,
policy analysis, urban and environmental planning, sustainability management, public
administration, urban studies, and history.
Within sociology, we draw upon various analytic approaches: social movements, institutions and
organizations, field theory, urban regimes and governance, community studies and social capital,
economic sociology, sociology of emotions and culture, sociology of place and space, race and
gender.
While we employ analytic approaches of the middle range, we also seek to thematize underlying
normative debates, especially those pertaining to democracy and social justice. Thus, we
consider such concepts as “policy design for democracy,” “civic and democratic
professionalism,” “environmental and climate justice,” “collaborative environmental
governance,” “embedded sustainability” and “corporate citizenship” in market institutions, and
“participatory policy feedback.” Pragmatic innovation in civic repertoires, as well as institutional
and policy designs, are central throughout.
Learning goals:
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To become familiar with major analytic approaches in sociology for studying the
environment, and to appreciate their relative strengths and limits for studying specific
kinds of problems
To map links to other social science disciplines relevant to specific topics and to be able
to think in a cross-disciplinary fashion, where relevant
To appreciate a range of methods for analyzing environmental sociology, politics, and
policy problems
To understand a broad range of ways that civic action embeds, challenges, and
reconfigures organizational, institutional, and policy fields, professional practices, and
market logics
To become increasingly self-reflective about the links between analytic, methodological,
policy, pragmatic, and normative questions
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Students wishing to do projects that are not focused on the U.S. may, of course, do so, but should
raise this possibility as early as possible so that we can try to accommodate further relevant
readings into the syllabus.
Prof. Sara Shostak (Sociology, HSSP) will present some of her research on urban agriculture
later in the term, and we will rearrange and add some readings for this.
Course requirements
There are two broad requirements:
1. Read and Discuss: read all required readings every week and come prepared to engage
in discussion; occasionally make presentations from the readings. In the case of longer
books with multiple and complex case studies (Isabelle Anguelovski, Jason Corburn,
Edward Weber), we will divide up the case presentations, but all should read the analytic
chapters. 25% of grade.
Further readings are provided for those wishing to do further research in particular areas,
or for rounding out QPDs for Ph.D. program in Sociology, or Sociology and Social
Policy.
2. Write: the equivalent of a 20-page paper. This can be in the form of one research paper,
due at the end of the semester (on a topic mutually agreed upon), or several shorter
assignments based on the readings or further research, which can be done at any point
during the term. 75% of grade. Due date for final written work: Thurs May 12.
General GSAS expectations: Success in this 4 credit hour course is based on the
expectation that students will spend a minimum of 9 hours of study time per week in
preparation for class. Academic credit is based on time spent in the classroom, as well as
time spent studying for class. According to NEASC guidelines, students who are
spending three hours per week in a class should be spending nine hours per week in
preparation for class.
University Policy on Academic Accommodations: If you are a student who
requires academic accommodations because of a documented disability, please be
in touch with me as soon as feasible. If you have questions about documenting a
disability please contact Jessica Basile (basile@brandeis.edu x63547).
Accommodations cannot be granted retroactively.
Academic Integrity: You are expected to be familiar with and to follow the
University’s policy on academic integrity
http://www.brandeis.edu/studentlife/srcs/ . If anything is unclear, please ask.
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Keeping Up To Date on Environmental News
Several sources are especially good (but please inform us of others!):
National Public Radio, Living on Earth: www.loe.org (weekly one-hour podcasts, in topical
segments; original reports and interviews, high quality reporting, innovative strategies).
Daily Climate: http://www.dailyclimate.org/ (sign up for daily selection of best articles from
wide range of sources around the world, latest reports summarized, and PDF links available).
Grist: www.grist.org
Relevant Scholarly Journals (in addition to ASR, AJS, APSR, and similar discipline
journals):
Journal of the American Planning Association
Urban Affairs Review
Journal of Urban Affairs
Urban Studies
Environmental History
Landscape and Urban Planning
Society & Natural Resources
Environmental Communication
Journal of Planning Education and Research
Local Environment
Organization and Environment
Environment and Planning, C: Government & Policy
Environment and Urbanization
Global Environmental Change
Websites: mostly of environmental organizations, to enable quick access. We will fill these out
further as the term progresses.
Required readings: these include books available in the bookstore, plus PDFs on LATTE in
each topical section.
Books required:
Dunlap, Riley E., and Robert J. Brulle, eds. 2015. Climate Change and Society:
Sociological Perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press.
Hoffman, Andrew. 2015. How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate. Stanford,
CA: Stanford University Press. (Stanford Briefs, 110 pages).
Jason Corburn, Street Science: Community Knowledge and Environmental Health Justice
(MIT Press 2005).
Anguelovski, Isabelle. Neighborhood as Refuge: Community Reconstruction, Place
Remaking, and Environmental Justice in the City. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT
Press, 2014.
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Edward Weber, Bringing Society Back In: Grassroots Ecosystem Management,
Accountability, and Sustainable Communities. MIT Press, 2003.
Hadden, Jennifer. 2015. Networks in Contention: The Divisive Politics of Climate
Change. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Reference Works and Edited Collections: a short selection.
Dryzek, John S., Richard B. Norgaard, and David Schlosberg. The Oxford Handbook of
Climate Change and Society. Oxford University Press, 2013.
Brown, Arlander C. III. 2015. Conservation Directory 2015: The Guide to Worldwide
Environmental Organizations. New York: Carrel Books.
Trzyna, Thaddeus C., and Julie Didion. 2001.World Directory of Environmental
Organizations. Sixth edition. California Institute of Public Affairs and Sierra
Club/Earthscan.
Bansal, Pratima, and Andrew J. Hoffman. The Oxford Handbook of Business and the
Natural Environment. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Weber, Rachel, and Randall Crane, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Mazmanian, Daniel A., and Michael E. Kraft, eds. Toward Sustainable Communities:
Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy. Second edition.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009.
Hansen, Anders, and Robert Cox. eds. 2015. The Routledge Handbook of Environment
and Communication. New York: Routledge.
Vig, Norman J., and Kraft, Michael E. Environmental Policy: New Directions for the
Twenty-First Century. Ninth edition. Thousand Oaks, California : London: CQ Press,
2015.
Lazarus, Richard J. The Making of Environmental Law. Chicago, Ill.; London: University
of Chicago Press, 2004.
Fiorino, Daniel J. The New Environmental Regulation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
2006.
Klyza, Christopher McGrory, and David J. Sousa. American Environmental Policy:
Beyond Gridlock. 2013. Updated and expanded edition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Paehlke and Torgerson. 2005. Managing Leviathan: Environmental Politics and the
Administrative State. Second edition. Peterborough, Ont.: University of Toronto
Press.
Salzman, James, and H. Barton Thompson, Jr.. 2013. Environmental Law and Policy.
Fourth edition. St. Paul, MN: Foundation Press.
Nolon, John, and Patricia E. Salkin. 2012. Land Use and Sustainable Development Law:
Cases and Materials. Eighth edition. St. Paul, MN: West Academic Publishing.
Historical Works: a selection (see last section).
Jan 19: Introduction, Foundational Debates, Broad Movement Contours
Introduction to the syllabus, readings, learning goals, requirements, class process. Analytic
approaches within sociology and across related disciplines of political science, policy
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analysis, urban and environmental planning, sustainability management, public
administration, urban studies, and history.
The “treadmill of production” versus “ecological modernization.” Sustainability as an
analytic, political, and policy problem within institutional and policy fields, urban regimes,
institutional logics. Policy and institutional design and policy feedback in the early postwar
decades (1945-1972). The emergence, promise, and limits of command-and-control
regulation.
Required Reading:
Robert J. Antonio and Brett Clark, “ The Climate Change Divide in Social Theory,” In
Dunlap, Riley E., and Robert J. Brulle, eds.. 2015. Climate Change and Society:
Sociological Perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press, 333-68.
Carmen Sirianni and Stephanie Sofer, “Environmental Organizations,” in The State of
Nonprofit America, second edition, ed. Lester Salamon (Brookings Press, 2012),
pp. 294-328.
Websites:
Sierra Club: www.sierraclub.org
National Wildlife Federation: www.nwf.org
National Audubon Society: www.audubon.org
Natural Resources Defense Council: www.nrdc.org
Environmental Defense Fund: www.edf.org
Further reading:
Brulle, R. J. (2000). Agency, Democracy, and Nature: The US Environmental
Movement from a Critical Theory Perspective. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Carmichael, Jason T., J. Craig Jenkins, and Robert J. Brulle. 2012. “Building
Environmentalism: The Founding of Environmental Movement Organizations in
the United States, 1900-2000.” The Sociological Quarterly 53: 422-53.
Longhofer, Wesley, and Evan Schofer. 2010. “National and Global Origins of
Environmental Association.” American Sociological Review 75(4): 505–33.
Bertels, Stephanie, Andrew J. Hoffman, and Rich DeJordy. 2014 (preproduction
draft). “The Varied Work of Challenger Movements: Identifying the Challenger
Roles in the U.S. Environmental Movement.” Organizations Studies.
McLaughlin, Paul, and Marwan Khawaja. 2009. “The Organizational Dynamics of
the U.S. Environmental Movement: Legitimation, Resource Mobilization, and
Political Opportunity.” Rural Sociology 65(3) : 422–39.
Mitchell, Robert Cameron. 1989. “From Conservation to Environmental Movement:
The Development of the Modern Environmental Lobbies.” Pp. 81-113 in
Government and Environmental Politics: Essay on Historical Developments since
World War Two, ed. Michael J. Lacey. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University
Press.
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Landy, Marc, et al.. The Environmental Protection Agency: Asking the Wrong
Questions: From Nixon to Clinton. Expanded edition. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1994.
Gould, K. A., Pellow, D. N., & Schnaiberg, A. 2008. Treadmill of Production:
Injustice and Unsustainability in the Global Economy. Routledge.
Gould, K. A., Pellow, D. N., & Schnaiberg, A. (2004). “Interrogating the treadmill of
production: Everything you wanted to know about the treadmill but were afraid to ask.”
Organization & Environment, 17, 296-316.
Mol, A. P. J. 1997. “Ecological modernization: Industrial transformations and environmental
reform.” in The international handbook of environmental sociology, eds. M. Redclift and
G. Woodgate, 138 -149. London: Edward Elgar.
Andrews, Kenneth T., and Edwards, B. (2005). The organizational structure of local
environmentalism. Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 10, 213-234.
Carmichael, Jason T., J. Craig Jenkins, and Robert J. Brulle. 2012. “Building
Environmentalism: The Founding of Environmental Movement Organizations in
the United States, 1900-2000.” Sociological Quarterly 53, no. 3 (June 2012):
422–53.
Johnson, Erik W., Agnone, Jon, McCarthy, John D. (2010) “Movement
Organizations, Synergistic Tactics and Environmental Public Policy.” Social
Forces, 88(5), 2267-2292.
Mol, Arthur P. 2003. Globalization and Environmental Reform: The Ecological
Modernization of the Global Economy. New edition. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT
Press.
Lyon, Thomas, ed. 2010. Good Cop/Bad Cop: Environmental NGOs and Their
Strategies toward Business. Washington, DC: Routledge, 2010.
Brulle, Robert J, and Jenkins, J. Craig. 2005. “Foundations and the Environmental
Movement: Priorities, Strategies, and Impact” in Faber, Daniel and McCarthy,
Debra, Foundations for Social Change: Critical Perspectives on Philanthropy
and Popular Movements Rowman & Littlefield.
Brulle, R., L. H. Turner, J. Carmichael, and J. C. Jenkins. 2007. “Measuring social
movement organization populations: A comprehensive census of US
environmental movement organizations.” Mobilization: An International
Quarterly 12:255-270.
Pellow, D. N. (DATE). “Framing Emerging Environmental Movement Tactics:
Mobilizing Consensus, Demobilizing Conflict.” Sociological Forum, 14(4), 659.
Andrews Kenneth T.; Caren, N. (n.d). “Making the News: Movement Organizations,
Media Attention, and the Public Agenda.” American Sociological Review, 75(6),
841-866.
Delfin, J. (n.d). Foundation Impact on Environmental Nongovernmental
Organizations: The Grantees' Perspective. Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector
Quarterly, 37(4), 603.
Johnson E, Saito Y, Nishikido M. The Organizational Demography of Japanese
Environmentalism. Sociological Inquiry [serial online]. November 2009;
79(4):481-504.
Egri, Carolyn P. & Susan Herman. 2000. “Leadership in the North American
Environmental Sector: Values, Leadership Styles, and Contexts of Environmental
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Leaders and Their Organizations”, Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 43,
No. 4, pp. 571-604.
Smith, A. M., & Pulver, S. (2009). “Ethics-Based Environmentalism in Practice:
Religious-Environmental Organizations in the United States.” Worldviews:
Environment Culture Religion, 13(2), 145-179.
Buttel, F. H. (2004). “The treadmill of production: An appreciation, assessment, and
agenda for research.” Organization & Environment, 17, 323-336.
Foster, J. B. (1999). Marx’s theory of metabolic rift: Classical foundations for
environmental sociology. American Journal of Sociology, 105, 366-405.
Hoffman, A. J. and S. Bertels (2009). "Who is Part of the Environmental Movement?
Assessing Network Linkages between NGOs and Corporations." SSRN eLibrary
Carmin, Joann and Deborah B. Balser. 2002. "Selecting Repertoires of Action in Environmental
Movement Organizations: An Interpretive Approach" Organization and
Environment, 15, pp. 365-388.
Hayden, Anders. When Green Growth Is Not Enough: Climate Change, Ecological
Modernization, and Sufficiency. 2014. Mcgill-Queens University Press.
McLaughlin, P., & Khawaja, M. (2000). The organizational dynamics of the U.S.
environmental movement: Legitimation, resource mobilization, and political
opportunity. Rural Sociology, 65, 422-439.
Mertig, Angela G., Riley E. Dunlap, and Denton E. Morrison. 2001. “The
Environmental Movement in the United States.” Pp. 448-481 in The Handbook of
Environmental Sociology, Riley E. Dunlap and William Michelson, eds.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.
Jan 26: Public Opinion, Culture, and Emotions in the Climate Debate
Trends in public opinion on environmental issues over time, by socio-demographic group.
The problem of high issue support, but chronically low salience (i.e. relative to other issues).
Deep cultural and political divisions on climate change in the US: WHY?
The role of costs, taxes, benefits, economy, time horizons, critical events, policy tools,
mobilization of bias, in the formation of public opinion. The role of the “sociology of
emotions” in understanding denial of climate change in everyday life. The role of the media.
Organizations supporting systematic climate denial. Framing choices in a politics of hope.
Required Reading:
Hoffman, Andrew. 2015. How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate. Stanford, CA:
Stanford University Press (Stanford Briefs, 110 pages).
Norgaard, Kari Marie. 2006. “ ‘People Want To Protect Themselves A Little Bit’: Emotions,
Denial, and Social Movement Non-Participation in the Case of Global Climate Change,”
Sociological Inquiry 76(3): 372-396.
Rachel Shwom et al., “Public Opinion on Climate Change.” 2015. In Dunlap, Riley E., and
Robert J. Brulle, eds.. 2015. Climate Change and Society: Sociological Perspectives.
New York: Oxford University Press, 269-99.
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Dunlap and McCright. 2015. “Challenging Climate Change: The Denial Countermovement.”
In Dunlap, Riley E., and Robert J. Brulle, eds.. 2015. Climate Change and Society:
Sociological Perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press, 300-32.
Further reading:
Cox, J. Robert. 2013. Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere. Third
edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
Crow, Deserai A., and Maxwell T. Boykoff. 2014. Culture, Politics and Climate
Change: How Information Shapes Our Common Future. New York: Routledge.
Norgaard, Kari Marie. Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday
Life. 1 edition. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 2011.
Dryzek, John S., Richard B. Norgaard, and David Schlosberg. The Oxford Handbook
of Climate Change and Society. Oxford University Press, 2013 (selections).
Lester, Libby. 2010. Media and Environment: Conflict, Politics and the News.
Malden, MA: Polity, 2010.
McCright, A.M., and Shwom, R. 2010. “Newspaper and Television Coverage.” Pp. 405413 in Climate Change Science and Policy, edited by Stephen H. Schneider, Armin
Rosencranz, Michael D. Mastrandrea, and Kristin Kuntz-Duriseti. Washington, D.C.:
Island Press.
Agnone J. 2007. Amplifying public opinion: the policy impact of the US
environmental movement. Social Forces 85:1593–62.
Feb 2, Feb 9: Environmental Justice, Street Science, and Place Making
The rise of grassroots anti-toxics and environmental justice (EJ) movements. Racism and
environmental harm. Citizens as scientists using local knowledge, and melding this with
professional science (“street science”). Various factors: racial and class discrimination,
agglomeration economies, relative land values, “coming to the nuisance.”
The emergence of the “collaborative EJ problem-solving model.” The role of communitybased organizations, local health and planning departments, schools of medicine and public
health, universities, as well as National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC),
Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE) at U.S. EPA, and other innovative
federal, state, and local programs. Climate justice as an emergent approach.
Required Reading:
Feb 2: EJ as Street Science:
Jason Corburn, Street Science: Community Knowledge and Environmental Health Justice
(MIT Press 2005).
Jason Corburn, “Civic Innovation, Deliberation, and Health Impact Assessement:
Democratic Planning and Engagement in San Francisco,” in Jennifer Girouard
and Carmen Sirianni, eds., Varieties of Civic Innovation: Deliberative,
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Collaborative, Narrative, and Network Approaches (Vanderbilt University Press,
2014), pp. 45-74.
Carmen Sirianni, Investing in Democracy: Engaging Citizens in Collaborative
Governance (Brookings Press 2009), 184-197, 207-213.
Jason Corburn, Healthy City Planning: From Neighborhood to National Health
Equity (New York: Routledge, 2013), chapter 4, pages 79-102 (“Favela Health in
Rio de Janiero, Brazil”).
Feb 9: EJ as Place Making, Neighborhood Refuge and Resilience
Anguelovski, Isabelle. Neighborhood as Refuge: Community Reconstruction, Place
Remaking, and Environmental Justice in the City. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT
Press, 2014.
Further reading:
Shostak, Sara. Exposed Science: Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population
Health. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.
Malin, Stephanie A. The Price of Nuclear Power: Uranium Communities and Environmental
Justice. Rutgers University Press, 2015.
Taylor, Dorceta. 2014. Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and
Residential Mobility. New York: NYU Press.
Pellow and Brulle, eds. 2005. Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of
the Environmental Justice Movement. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Agyeman, Julian. Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental
Justice. New York: NYU Press, 2005.
Bullard, Robert D., and Beverly Wright. Race, Place, and Environmental Justice
After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New
Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2009.
Luke Cole and Sheila Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of
the Environmental Justice Movement (New York University Press, 2000).
Rechtschaffen, Clifford et al. Environmental Justice: Law, Policy & Regulation. Second
edition. Durham, N.C: Carolina Academic Press, 2009.
Walker, Gordon. 2012. Environmental Justice: Concepts, Evidence and Politics. New York:
Routledge.
Schlosberg, David. Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature.
Oxford University Press, 2009.
McCarthy, D. (n.d). Environmental Justice Grantmaking: Elites and Activists Collaborate to
Transform Philanthropy. Sociological Inquiry, 74(2), 250.
Stretesky, P.B., Huss, S., Lynch, M.L., Zahran, S. and Childs, B. 2011. “The Founding of
Environmental Justice Organizations across U.S. Counties during the 1990s and 2000s:
Civil Rights and Environmental Cross-Movement Effects.” Social Problems Vol. 58, No.
3 (August 2011), pp. 330-360.
Pellow, D. N. (2001). “Environmental Justice and the Political Process: Movements,
Corporations, and the State.” The Sociological Quarterly, 42(1), 47-67.
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Gerrard, Michael B., and Sheila R. Foster. The Law of Environmental Justice: Theories and
Procedures to Address Disproportionate Risks. 2nd edition. Chicago, Ill: American Bar
Association, 2009.
Winter break: Feb 15-19
Feb 23, March 1: Sustainable Cities and Communities
The sustainable communities movement has emerged from multiple streams, including
architects and planners in green building and new urbanist design, bicycle associations and
equitable transportation, AARP and walkable communities, open space councils and urban
forestry, environmental justice and urban rivers, public health and urban agriculture, and city
climate action planning. We will look at several dimension of this movement.
Required reading:
Feb 23:
Kathleen Tierney, The Social Roots of Risk: Producing Disasters, Promoting
Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2014), chap 6 (“Communities and Societies
at Risk”); chapter 7, pages 160-196 (“Defining Resilience in Relation to Risk”).
Eric Klinenberg, Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (University of
Chicago Press, 2003), chapter 2 (“Race, Place, and Vulnerability: Neighborhoods and the
Ecology of Support”), pages 70-128.
Sampson, Robert J. 2012. Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring
Neighborhood Effect. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, chapter 8.
Lowndes, Vivien. 2001. “Rescuing Aunt Sally: Taking Institutional Theory Seriously
in Urban Politics.” Urban Studies 38, no. 11 (October 2001): 1953–71.
Sirianni, Carmen. 2007 “Neighborhood Planning as Collaborative Democratic
Design: the Case of Seattle,” Journal of the American Planning Association 73:4
(December 2007), 373-87.
Seattle Climate Action Plan 2013:
http://www.seattle.gov/environment/documents/2013_CAP_20130612.pdf also LATTE
PDF.
March 1:
Michele A. Meyer, Jennifer E. Cross, et al., “Green School Building Success: Innovation
through a Flat Team Approach,” in Rebecca L. Henn and Andrew J. Hoffman.
Constructing Green: The Social Structures of Sustainability (MIT Press, 2013), 219-38.
Ion Bogdan Vasi, 2006. "Organizational Environments and Compatibility: The Diffusion of
the Program against Global Climate Change among Local Governments in the U.S."
Sociological Forum. 21(3): 439-466.
Rachel Krause, “Climate Policy Innovation in American Cities,” in WolinskyNahmias, Yael. Changing Climate Politics: U.S. Policies and Civic Action (CQ
Press, 2015), pp. 82-107.
Shandas, Vivek, and W. Barry Messer. 2008. “Fostering Green Communities
Through Civic Engagement: Community-Based Environmental Stewardship in
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the Portland Area.” Journal of the American Planning Association 74, no. 4
(September): 408–18.
Ozawa, Connie P. 2014. “Developing Effective Participatory Processes for a
Sustainable City.” Pp. 210-227 in Mazmanian, Daniel A., and Hilda Blanco, eds.,
Elgar Companion to Sustainable Cities: Strategies, Methods, and Outlook.
Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
Matthew I. Slavin and Kent Snyder, “Strategic Climate Action Planning in Portland,”
in Slavin, Sustainability in America’s Cities, chapter 2, pages 21-44.
Websites:
ICLEI: Local Governments for Sustainability: http://www.iclei.org/
Urban Land Institute: www.uli.org
Smart Growth America: http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org
Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities:
http://www.fundersnetwork.org/
Congress for the New Urbanism (www.cnu.org )
U.S. Green Building Council: http://www.usgbc.org/
Center for Neighborhood Technology: http://www.cnt.org/
American Institute of Architects (especially Communities By Design):
http://www.aia.org/
Alliance for Biking and Walking: http://www.bikewalkalliance.org
National Charrette Institute: http://www.charretteinstitute.org/
Million Trees NYC: http://milliontreesnyc.org/
PlaNYC2030: http://www.nyc.gov/html/planyc/html/home/home.shtml (plus reports
online)
New York State Urban and Community Forestry:
http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/4957.html
Chicago Wilderness: http://www.chicagowilderness.org
Natural Resources Defense Council: NRDC: http://www.nrdc.org/ (Cities and Communities
section)
Chicago Climate Action Plan: http://www.chicagoclimateaction.org/ .
ICLEI: Local Governments for Sustainability, Corporate Report 2012-2013:
http://archive.iclei.org/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/Global/governance/ICLEICorporate_Report2012-final-www.pdf . LATTE pdf.
Further reading:
Portney, Kent E. 2013. Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously: Economic Development,
the Environment, and Quality of Life in American Cities. Second edition.
Cambridge: MIT Press.
Weir, Margaret. 2000. “Planning, Environmentalism, and Urban Poverty: The
Political Failure of National Land Use Planning Legislation, 1970-1975.” Pp.
193-215 in Robert Fishman, ed. The American Planning Tradition: Culture and
Policy. Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press.
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Hoffman, Andrew J., and Rebecca Henn. 2008. “Overcoming the Social and
Psychological Barriers to Green Building.” Organization & Environment 21, no.
4 (December 1, 2008): 390–419.
Henn, Rebecca L., and Andrew J. Hoffman, eds. 2013. Constructing Green: The
Social Structures of Sustainability. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Duckles, Beth M. 2013. “Conveying Greenness: Sustainable Ideals and Organizational
Narratives about LEED-Certified Buildings.” Pp. 263-84 in Rebecca L. Henn and
Andrew J. Hoffman, eds., Constructing Green: The Social Structures of Sustainability.
Cambridge: MIT Press.
MacBride, Samantha. 2013. Recycling Reconsidered: The Present Failure and Future
Promise of Environmental Action in the United States. Cambridge, MA: The MIT
Press, 2013.
Kevin Fox Gotham and Miriam Greenberg. Crisis Cities: Disaster and
Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2014.
Carmen Sirianni and Jennifer Girouard, “The Civics of Urban Planning,” The Oxford
Handbook of Urban Planning, eds. Rachel Weber and Randall Crane. Oxford
University Press, 2012, pp. 669-90.
Carmen Sirianni and Diana Schor, “City Government as Enabler of Youth Civic
Engagement: Policy Designs and Implications,” in Policies for Youth Civic
Engagement, edited by James Youniss and Peter Levine (Nashville: Vanderbilt
University Press, 2009), pp. 121-63.
Clarence Stone, et al., In a New Era: The Politics of Neighborhood Revitalization in
the Post-Industrial City (2015).
Klingle, Matthew. 2007. Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle. New
Haven: Yale University Press.
Marion Orr and Valerie C. Johnson, eds. Power in the City: Clarence Stone and the
Politics of Inequity (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008).
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York: Routledge.
Moore, Steven A. 2007. Alternative Routes to the Sustainable City: Austin, Curitiba,
and Frankfurt. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
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Epperson, Bruce D. 2014. Bicycles in American Highway Planning: The Critical
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Marcotullio, Robert I. McDonald, Susan Parnell, et al., eds. Urbanization,
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities: A Global
Assessment. New York, NY: Springer, 2013.
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Ronald J. Daniels, Donald F. Kettl, and Howard Kunreuther, eds. On Risk and
Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina. Philadelphia: University of
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Cerulo, Karen A. Never Saw It Coming: Cultural Challenges to Envisioning the
Worst. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2006.
Clarke, Lee. Worst Cases: Terror and Catastrophe in the Popular Imagination
(Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2005).
Eden, Lynn. Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons
Devastation. Ithaca, N.Y.; Bristol: Cornell University Press, 2006.
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Community Recovery in the Aftermath of Disaster. Fairfax, Va: Public Entity Risk
Institute, 2009.
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Recovery. University of Chicago Press.
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Environment and Community in Baltimore. New York: Routledge.
Sharp, Elaine B. Does Local Government Matter? How Urban Policies Shape Civic
Engagement. Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 2012.
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Meaning of Modern Austin. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011.
Campanella, Thomas J. 2006. “Urban Resilience and the Recovery of New Orleans.”
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Anguelovski, Isabelle. 2013. “New Directions in Urban Environmental Justice:
Rebuilding Community, Addressing Trauma, and Remaking Place.” Journal of
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and Sustainability. Hong Kong University Press, 2013.
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Washington, DC: Island Press, 2012.
Cohen, Steven. 2011. Sustainability Management: Lessons from and for New York
City, America, and the Planet. Columbia University Press.
Gehl, Jan. 2010. Cities for People. Washington, DC: Island Press.
Portney, Kent E. Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously: Economic Development, the
Environment, and Quality of Life in American Cities. Second edition. Cambridge:
MIT Press, 2013.
Corburn, Jason. Toward the Healthy City: People, Places, and the Politics of Urban
Planning. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 2009.
Walker, Richard A. 2008. The Country in the City: The Greening of the San
Francisco Bay Area. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Gandy, Matthew. 2003. Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City.
Cambridge: MIT Press.
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Calthorpe, Peter. 2013. Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change. 2nd edition.
Washington, DC: Island Press.
Coyle, Stephen J., and Andrés Duany. Sustainable and Resilient Communities: A
Comprehensive Action Plan for Towns, Cities, and Regions. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley,
2011.
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and Practices. Washington, D.C: Island Press, 2008.
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Welfare, 3rd Edition. 3rd edition. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press,
2012.
Agyeman, Julian. Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental
Justice. New York: NYU Press, 2005.
Carmen Sirianni, Investing in Democracy: Engaging Citizens in Collaborative
Governance (Brookings Press 2009), chapter 5.
Zavestoski, Stephen, and Julian Agyeman, eds. Incomplete Streets: Processes,
Practices, and Possibilities. London ; New York: Routledge, 2014.
Platt, Rutherford H. 2013. Reclaiming American Cities: The Struggle for People,
Place, and Nature since 1900. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
Goldstein, Bruce Evan, ed. Collaborative Resilience: Moving Through Crisis to
Opportunity. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 2011.
Daniel Fiorino. 2010. “Sustainability as a Conceptual Focus for Public
Administration.” Public Administration Review. Special Issue: 578-588.
Carmen Sirianni and Lewis A. Friedland, Civic Innovation in America (University of
California Press 2001), chapter 3.
Frederick Murphy, ed. Community Engagement, Organization, and Development for
Public Health Practice. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company, 2012.
Mostafavi, Mohsen, and Gareth Doherty, eds. Ecological Urbanism. Baden,
Switzerland: Lars Muller, 2010.
Pearson, Leonie, Peter Newton, and Peter Roberts, eds. Resilient Sustainable Cities:
A Future. Routledge, 2013.
Kahn, Matthew E. Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment. Washington,
D.C: Brookings Institution Press, 2006.
Adger, W. Neil, Irene Lorenzoni, and Karen L. O’Brien. Adapting to Climate
Change. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Fitzgerald, Joan. Emerald Cities: Urban Sustainability and Economic Development.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Concepts, Cases, and Solutions. Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2012.
Henderson, Elizabeth, Robyn Van En, and Joan Dye Gussow. Sharing the Harvest: A
Citizen’s Guide to Community Supported Agriculture. Revised & enlarged
edition. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007.
Ladner, Peter. 2011. The Urban Food Revolution: Changing the Way We Feed Cities.
Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers.
Alkon, Alison Hope, and Julian Agyeman, eds. Cultivating Food Justice: Race,
Class, and Sustainability. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 2011.
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Hassanein, Neva. Changing the Way America Farms: Knowledge and Community in
the Sustainable Agriculture Movement. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
1999.
Lyson, Thomas A. Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community.
Medford, MA: Lebanon, NH: Tufts, 2004.
Cockrall-King, Jennifer. Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food
Revolution. Amherst, N.Y: Prometheus Books, 2012.
Nordahl, Darrin. Public Produce: The New Urban Agriculture. Washington: Island
Press, 2009.
Viljoen, André, and Katrin Bohn. Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing
Productive Cities. New York: Routledge, 2014.
Hodgson, Kimberly, Marcia Caton Campbell, and Martin Bailkey. Urban
Agriculture: Growing Healthy, Sustainable Communities. Chicago, Ill: APA
Planners Press, 2010.
Giseke, Undine, ed. Urban Agriculture for Growing City Regions: Connecting
Urban-Rural Spheres in Casablanca. Routledge, 2015.
Lawson, Laura J. City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
Rich, Sarah, and Matthew Benson. 2012. Urban Farms. New York: Harry N.
Abrams.
Dana R. Fisher, Erika S. Svendsen, and James J.T. Connolly. 2015. Urban
Environmental Stewardship and Civic Engagement: How Planting Trees
Strengthens the Roots of Democracy. New York: Routledge.
Rothman, Hal K. 2004. The New Urban Park: Golden Gate National Recreation Area
and Civic Environmentalism. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
Bartley, Elizabeth M. Chicago’s Urban Trees and Forests: Assessments, Effects and
Values. New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2014.
Reid Helford, “Constructing Nature as Constructing Science: Expertise, Activist
Science, and the Public Conflict in the Chicago Wilderness,” chapter 6 (119-42)
in Paul Gobster and R. Bruce Hull, Restoring Nature: Perspectives from the
Social Sciences and Humanities (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2000).
Joanne Vining, Elizabeth Tyler, and Byoung-Suk Kweon, “Public Values, Opinions,
and Emotions in Restoration Controversies,” chapter 7 in Restoring Nature (143161).
Austin, Gary. Green Infrastructure for Landscape Planning: Integrating Human and
Natural Systems. Routledge, 2014.
Sandberg, L. Anders, Adrina Bardekjian, and Sadia Butt, eds. Urban Forests, Trees,
and Greenspace: A Political Ecology Perspective. New York: Routledge, 2014.
Press, Daniel. Saving Open Space: The Politics of Local Preservation in California.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Kuser, John E., ed. Urban and Community Forestry in the Northeast. New York:
Springer, 2007.
Randolph T. Hester, Jr., Design for Ecological Democracy. The MIT Press, 2010.
Christine Mondor, David Deal, and Stephen Hockley, “Building Up to Organizational
Sustainability: How the Greening of Places Transforms Organizations,” in Henn
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and Hoffman. Constructing Green: The Social Structures of Sustainability,
chapter 9, pages 197-217, LATTE PDF.
Gerrit Knapp, et al., “LEED in the Nation’s Capital: A Policy and Planning
Perspective on Green Building in Washington, DC,” in Slavin, Sustainability in
America’s Cities, chapter 5, pages 91-111.
Austin, Gary. Green Infrastructure for Landscape Planning: Integrating Human and
Natural Systems. Routledge, 2014.
Yudelson, Jerry, and Ulf Meyer. The World’s Greenest Buildings: Promise Versus
Performance in Sustainable Design. New York: Routledge, 2013.
Athens, Lucia. Building an Emerald City: A Guide to Creating Green Building
Policies and Programs. second edition. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2009.
Farr, Douglas. Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature. 1 edition.
Hoboken, N.J: Wiley, 2007.
Duany, Andrés, and Emily Talen, eds. 2013. Landscape Urbanism and Its
Discontents: Dissimulating the Sustainable City. Gabriola Island, BC: New
Society Publishers.
Matthew Slavin, ed., Sustainability in America’s Cities: Creating the Green
Metropolis. Second edition. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2011.
Jeffrey Hou, Julie M. Johnson, and Laura J. Lawson. Greening Cities, Growing
Communities (University of Washington Press, 2009).
Mapes, Jeff. 2009. Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities.
Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press.
ICLEI. Toronto, Canada. Moving From Assessment to Action on Climate Change.
April 2012.
Picketts et al. 2013. Learning with practitioners: climate change adaptation
priorities in a Canadian community. Climatic Change 118:321–337.
Michael R. Boswell, Adrienne I. Greve, and Tammy L. Seale. Local Climate Action
Planning. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2011.
Bulkeley, Harriet. Cities and Climate Change. New York, NY: Routledge, 2013.
Tanner et al, . 2009. Ten Asian Cities [PDF].
Luccarelli, Mark, and Per Gunnar Roe. Green Oslo: Visions, Planning and Discourse.
Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2012.
Schlager, Edella C., Kirsten H. Engel, and Sally Rider, eds. Navigating Climate
Change Policy: The Opportunities of Federalism. Tucson: University of Arizona
Press, 2011.
Kent Portney and Jeffrey Berry, “The Impact of Local Environmental Advocacy Groups on
City Sustainability Policies and Programs,” in Dana Fisher, Carmen Sirianni, and
Kenneth “Andy” Andrews, eds., Conflict and Collaboration in Environmental
Governance (forthcoming). LATTE pdf.
Daniel A. Mazmanian, “Los Angeles’ Clean Air Saga – Spanning the Three Epochs,”
in Mazmanian and Kraft 2009.
Seattle Office of Sustainability and Environment, Seattle Climate Action Plan. April
2013. PDF.
Stephen R. J. Sheppard, Visualizing Climate Change: A Guide to Visual
Communication of Climate Change and Developing Local Solutions (New York:
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Routledge, 2012), chapter 11, pages 319-51 (“Visual Media: Knowing Climate
Change when You See It – in Pictures”).
Pablo Suarez, et al., “Serious Fun: Scaling Up Community-Based Adaptation through
Experiential Learning,” in E. Lisa F. Schipper, Jessica Ayers, Hannah Reid,
Saleemul Huq, and Atiq Rahman, eds. Community-Based Adaptation to Climate
Change: Scaling It up (London: Routledge, 2014), chapter 9, pages 136-51.
LATTE PDF.
Colding, Johan et al. 2013. “Urban Green Commons: Insights on Urban Common
Property Systems.” Global Environmental Change 23(5):1039–51.
Eames, Malcolm and Jonas Egmose. 2011. “Community Foresight for Urban
Sustainability: Insights from the Citizens Science for Sustainability (SuScit)
Project.” Technological Forecasting and Social Change 78(5): 769–84.
Ling, Christopher, Kevin Hanna, and Ann Dale. 2009. “A Template for Integrated
Community Sustainability Planning.” Environmental Management 44(2): 228–42.
Sheppard, Stephen R. J. et al. 2011. “Future Visioning of Local Climate Change: A
Framework for Community Engagement and Planning with Scenarios and
Visualisation.” Futures 43(4): 400–412.
Schmidt-Thome, Philipp, and Johannes Klein, eds. Climate Change Adaptation in
Practice: From Strategy Development to Implementation (Wiley-Blackwell,
2013), chapter 2, “Participatory Climate Change Adaptation in Kalundborg,
Denmark.”
Kridtina Hill, “Climate-Resilient Urban Waterfronts,” in Aerts, Jeroen, Wouter
Botzen, Malcolm Bowman, Piet Dircke, and Philip Ward. Climate Adaptation and
Flood Risk in Coastal Cities (Routledge 2013), chapter 7.
Susanne C. Moser and Maxwell T. Boykoff, eds. Successful Adaptation to Climate
Change: Linking Science and Policy in a Rapidly Changing World. Routledge,
2013.
Schipper, E. Lisa F., Jessica Ayers, Hannah Reid, Saleemul Huq, and Atiq Rahman,
eds. Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change: Scaling It up. London:
Routledge, 2014.
McGuire, Chad J. Adapting to Sea Level Rise in the Coastal Zone: Law and Policy
Considerations. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2013.
Jane Bicknell, David Dodman, and David Satterthwaite, eds. Adapting Cities to
Climate Change: Understanding and Addressing the Development Challenges.
Routledge, 2009.
W. Neil Adger, , Irene Lorenzoni, and Karen L. O’Brien, eds. Adapting to Climate
Change: Thresholds, Values, Governance. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2009.
Boulter, Sarah, Jean Palutikof, David John Karoly, and Daniela Guitart, eds. Natural
Disasters and Adaptation to Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2013.
Pelling, Mark. Adaptation to Climate Change: From Resilience to Transformation.
New York: Routledge, 2010.
Selin, Henrik, and Stacy D. VanDeveer, eds. Changing Climates in North American
Politics: Institutions, Policymaking, and Multilevel Governance. 1 edition.
Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 2009. [esp Gore & Robinson, Moser]
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Inderberg, Tor Håkon, Siri Eriksen, Karen O’Brien, and Linda Sygna, eds. Climate
Change Adaptation and Development: Transforming Paradigms and Practices.
New York: Routledge, 2015.
Markandya, Anil, Ibon Galarraga, and Elisa Sainz de Murieta, eds. Routledge
Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change Adaptation. New York:
Routledge, 2014.
March 8: Watershed and Rivers Movement
Watershed associations, councils, and alliances. Save-the-bay and estuary groups. Friends-ofthe-river groups. The watershed approach to environmental protection. National Estuary
Program. The watershed movement and “watershed democracy.” New forms of multistakeholder collaboration. Volunteer watershed monitoring.
The role that federal agencies can play in helping to develop tools and networks for the
watershed movement and partnerships.
Required Reading:
Lee, Caroline W. “Is There a Place for Private Conversation in Public Dialogue?
Comparing Stakeholder Assessments of Informal Communication in Collaborative
Regional Planning.” American Journal of Sociology 113 (2007): 41-96.
Carmen Sirianni, “Bringing the State Back in Through Collaborative Governance:
Emergent Mission and Practice at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,” in
Jennifer Girouard and Carmen Sirianni, Varieties of Civic Innovation:
Deliberative, Collaborative, Narrative, and Network Approaches (Vanderbilt
University Press, 2014), 203-238.
Anne Taufen Wessells, “Ways of Knowing the Los Angeles River Watershed:
Getting from Engaged Participation to Inclusive Deliberation,” in Jennifer Girouard and
Carmen Sirianni, eds., Varieties of Civic Innovation (Vanderbilt University Press, 2014),
23-45.
Robert Gottlieb, Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City.
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007, chapter 4 (“Re-Envisioning the Loss Angeles River”), pages
135-172.
The River Network: http://www.rivernetwork.org/
American Rivers:
River Keepers:
Further reading:
Anne Rademacher, Reigning the River: Urban Ecologies and Political
Transformation in Kathmandu (Duke University Press Books, 2011).
Paul Sabatier, Will Focht, Mark Lubell, et al. Swimming Upstream: Collaborative
Approaches to Watershed Management. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2005.
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Kibel, Paul Stanton. 2007. Rivertown: Rethinking Urban Rivers. Cambridge: MIT
Press.
McCool, Daniel. River Republic: The Fall and Rise of America’s Rivers. Columbia
University Press, 2014.
Lowry, William R. 2003. Dam Politics: Restoring America’s Rivers. Washington,
D.C: Georgetown University Press.
Schlager, Edella and William Blomquist, eds. Embracing Watershed Politics.
Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008.
Riley, Ann L., and Luna B. Leopold. 1998. Restoring Streams in Cities: A Guide for
Planners, Policymakers, and Citizens. 2nd edition. Washington, D.C.: Island
Press.
March 15: Land Trusts: Movement and Business Model
Land trusts have emerged as an important component in conservation over the past half
century, with notable growth especially in recent years. The core model and its variants:
buying land, conservation easements, investing in nature. We will look at the major
organizations (national, state, local, international) in the land trust movement (e.g. The
Nature Conservancy, Trust for Public Land, Land Trust Alliance) and the promises and
pitfalls of the land trust as a set of organizational and financial tools.
Reading:
Richard Brewer, Conservancy: The Land Trust Movement in America (Dartmouth College
Press, 2003), chapter 10, “The Nature Conservancy” (TNC), pages 185-215.
TNC, Conservation by Design. http://www.nature.org/media/aboutus/conservation-bydesign-20th-anniversary-edition.pdf .
Sally Fairfax et al., Buying Nature (MIT Press 2005), chapter 8 (pages 203-243), “Meagdeals
and Management Mosaics in the 1990s.”
Land Trust Alliance, 2010, National Land Trust Census
http://www.landtrustalliance.org/land-trusts/land-trust-census/2010-final-report (2015
may be soon available)
The Nature Conservancy: http://www.nature.org/
Land Trust Alliance: https://www.landtrustalliance.org/
March 22: Grassroots Ecosystem Management: the Opportunities and Challenges of
Collaboration in the Western U.S.
Ecosystem partnerships as a form of democratic management and public accountability. The
grassroots ecosystem management (GREM) movement in the American West: environmental
and conservation groups, commodity interests (ranching, farming, irrigation, timber), local
community institutions, state and federal agencies. The critics of collaboration. Successive
regimes for land governance in the history of the American West. Does GREM represent a
new form of governance and democratic accountability? Is it time to rethink what public
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management of public lands means? The challenge of drought for land and water
management.
Required Reading:
Edward Weber, Bringing Society Back In: Grassroots Ecosystem Management,
Accountability, and Sustainable Communities (MIT Press, 2003).
Martin Nie. 2008. The Governance of Western Public Lands: Mapping Its Present
and Future. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, chapter 5 (“Governing the
National Forests”) and chapter 6 (“Prospects and Alternatives for Governing
Western Public Lands”)
Further reading:
Turner, James Morton. 2013. The Promise of Wilderness: American Environmental
Politics since 1964. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Keiter, Robert B. 2003. Keeping Faith with Nature: Ecosystems, Democracy, and
America’s Public Lands. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
Brulle, R.J. and Benford, R.D. 2012. “From Game Protection to Wildlife
Management: Frame Shifts, Organizational Development, and Field Practices.“
Rural Sociology.
Pellow, David N. (1999). "Negotiation and confrontation: Environmental
policymaking through consensus." Society & Natural Resources 12(3): 189-203.
March 29, April 5: Markets, Corporate Cultures, Capitalism, and Sustainability
While business often resists command-and-control regulation, it also can adjust strategies
under a variety of constraints and opportunities in the broader fields in which it has to
operate. We will examine a range of innovative strategies, differences among business
lobbies on issues of climate, and the intersection of social movements, entrepreneurial
opportunities, consumer power, and employee empowerment for sustainable solutions.
“Embedded sustainability” and “green finance” as models for developing the field. But: is
capitalism the problem? What do we even mean when we say this?
Required Reading:
March 29:
Charles Perrow and Simone Pulver, “Organizations and Markets,” chapter 3 in Dunlap and
Brulle, eds., Climate Change and Society.
Karen Ehrhardt and Juliet B Schor, et al. 2015. “Consumption and Climate Change,” chapter
4 in Dunlap and Brulle, eds., Climate Change and Society.
Ion Bogdan Vasi, Winds of Change: The Environmental Movement and the Global
Development of the Wind Energy Industry (Oxford UP, 2011), chapter 4, pages 116-141
(“From Thinking Globally about Climate Change to Acting Locally on the Energy
Challenge,” on university and corporate strategies), and pages 170-182 (“Environmental
Activism and the Development and Operation of Wind Farms in the U.S.”).
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Biggart, Nicole Woolsey, and Loren Lutzenhiser. 2007. “Economic Sociology and the
Social Problem of Energy Inefficiency.” American Behavioral Scientist 50, no. 8
(April 1, 2007): 1070–87.
Shwom, Rachel. 2011. “A Middle Range Theory of Energy Politics: The U.S. Struggle for
Energy Efficient Appliances.” Environmental Politics. 20:5:706–727.
Evans R, and Tamara Kay. 2009. “How environmentalists ‘greened’ trade policy:
strategic action and the architecture of field overlap.” American Sociological
Review 73:970–91.
April 5:
Laszlo, Chris, and Nadya Zhexembayeva. 2011. Embedded Sustainability: The Next Big
Competitive Advantage. Stanford, CA: Stanford Business Books. Chapters 1 and 10.
Henderson, Rebecca, Ranjay Gulati, and Michael Tushman, eds. 2015. Leading Sustainable
Change: An Organizational Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press.
(selections).
Esty, Daniel C. 2009. Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to
Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage. Revised & Updated edition.
Hoboken, N.J: Wiley. Selections.
Eric Pooley, The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the
Earth (Hyperion, 2010), pp. 55-101.
Klein, Naomi. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate. Simon & Schuster,
2014. Selection.
Websites:
Environmental Defense Fund: www.edf.org
Carbon Disclosure Project: www.cdp.net
CERES: http://www.ceres.org/
Kate Gordon (for the Risky Business Project), Risky Business: The Economic Risk of Climate
Change in the United States. June 2014.
http://riskybusiness.org/uploads/files/RiskyBusiness_Report_WEB_7_22_14.pdf
(website for updates: http://riskybusiness.org ).
Further reading:
Hoffman, Andrew J. 2002. From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of
Corporate Environmentalism. Expanded Edition. Stanford, CA: Stanford
Business Books.
Bansal, Pratima, and Andrew J. Hoffman, eds.. The Oxford Handbook of Business
and the Natural Environment. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Hoffman, Andrew, and William Ocasio. 2001. “Not All Events are Attended Equally:
Toward a Middle-Range Theory of Industry Attention to External Events.”
Organization Science 12(4): 414-34.
Hoffman, Andrew J., and Marc J. Ventresca. Organizations, Policy, and the Natural
Environment: Institutional and Strategic Perspectives. Stanford, CA: Stanford
Business Books, 2002.
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Jermier, John M. 2013. Corporate Environmentalism and the Greening of
Organizations. Sage. Six volumes.
Crane, Andrew, Abagail McWilliams, Dirk Matten, Jeremy Moon, and Donald S.
Siegel, eds. 2009. The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility. New
York: Oxford University Press.
Layzer, Judith A. 2014. Open for Business: Conservatives’ Opposition to
Environmental Regulation. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Prakash, A., & Potoski, M. (2007). Collective action through voluntary environmental
programs: A club theory Approach. Policy Studies Journal, 35, 773-792.
Pulver, S. 2007. “Making sense of corporate environmentalism: an environmental
contestation approach to analyzing the causes and consequences of the climate
change policy split in the oil industry.” Organization & Environment, 20, 44-83.
Sonnenfeld, D. A. (2002). Social movements and ecological modernization: The
transformation of pulp and paper manufacturing. Development and Change, 33, 127.
Shwom, R. 2009. "Strengthening sociological perspectives on organizations and the
environment" Organization & Environment, 22: 271-292.
Hoffman, A. J. (1999). Institutional evolution and change: Environmentalism and the
US chemical industry. Academy of Management Journal, 42, 351-371.
Grant, D., Jones, A. W., & Trautner, M. N. (2004). “Do facilities with distant
headquarters pollute more? How civic engagement conditions the environmental
performance of absentee managed plants.” Social Forces, 83,189-214.
Rao, Hayagreeva. 2008. Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical
Innovations. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
London, T., Rondinelli, D. 2003. “How Corporations and Environmental Groups
Cooperate: Assessing Cross-Sector Alliances and Collaborations.” Academy of
Management Executive 17:61-76.
Cohen, M.J., Ecological modernization and its discontents: The American
environmental movement's resistance to an innovation-driven future. Futures,
2006. 38(5): p. 528-547.
Van Huijstee Mariette; Pollock Leo; Glasbergen, P. (n.d). Challenges for NGOs
Partnering with Corporations: WWF Netherlands and the Environmental Defense
Fund. Environmental Values, 20(1), 43-74.
April 12, April 19: Direct Action, Climate Protest, and Global Civil Society in Climate
Talks:
Direct action and protest in the U.S. on climate change, fracking, the XL pipeline, divestment
and other issues.
The Paris “Conference of Parties” (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) meeting
of November 30-December 12, 2015, offered various strategic options for national and global
civil society organizations, as well as member states and other organizations. We will use a
major sociological study of the contentious politics of civil society organizations at
Copenhagen (2009) to help understand the background, opportunities, and limits of the Paris
meeting. We will also add scholarly and journalistic accounts as these appear. Diverse
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approaches to framing and action repertoires, conflict and collaboration across the
organizational field.
Required Reading:
Hadden, Jennifer. 2015. Networks in Contention: The Divisive Politics of Climate Change.
New York: Cambridge University Press.
Suzanne Staggenborg, “Grassroots Environmentalism in Pittsburgh,” in Dana Fisher, Carmen
Sirianni, and Kenneth Andrews, eds., Conflict and Collaboration in Environmental
Governance (draft).
UNFCCC, COP21, Paris Agreement, December 12, 2015 (LATTE PDF)
350.org: www.350.org
Climate Action Network (U.S.): http://www.usclimatenetwork.org/
Further reading:
Murphy, Gillian. 2005. “Coalitions and the Development of the Global Environmental
Movement: A Double-edged Sword.” Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 10(2),
235-250.
Park, Hyung Sam. (2008). Forming Coalitions: A Network-Theoretic Approach to the
Contemporary South Korean Environmental Movement. Mobilization: An International
Quarterly, 13(1), 99-114.
Carmin, JoAnn. Cross-Movement Activism: A Cognitive Perspective on the Global Justice
Activities of US Environmental NGOs. Environmental Politics. May 2009; 18(3): 351370.
Lewis, T. L. (2000). “Transnational conservation movement organizations: Shaping the
protected area systems of less developed countries.” Mobilization: An International
Quarterly, 5, 103-121.
Jaffee, D. (2007). Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival:
University of California Press.
April 22-29: Spring break, no classes
May 12: final written work due
Historical studies: a selection (some we will weave into topic sections)
Barry, John M. 1998. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It
Changed America. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Beauregard, Robert A. 2006. When America Became Suburban. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press.
Bocking, Stephen. 1997. Ecologists and Environmental Politics: A History of
Contemporary Ecology. New Haven: Yale University Press.
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Bocking, Stephen. 2004. Nature’s Experts: Science, Politics, and the Environment.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Brooks, Karl Boyd. 2006 Public Power, Private Dams: The Hells Canyon High Dam
Controversy. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Brooks, Karl Boyd. Before Earth Day: The Origins of American Environmental Law,
1945-1970. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009.
Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. Reprint edition.
W. W. Norton & Company, 1992.
Cronon, William. 1995. Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
Davis, Devra. 2002 When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales Of Environmental Deception
And The Battle Against Pollution. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Deverell, William, and Greg Hise. 2006 Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History
of Metropolitan Los Angeles. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Dewey, Scott. 1998. “Working for the Environment: Organized Labor and the Origins
of Environmentalism in the United States, 1948-1970.” Environmental History
3(1): 45–63.
Dewey, Scott Hamilton. 2000. Don’t Breathe the Air: Air Pollution and U.S.
Environmental Politics, 1945-1970. College Station: Texas A&M University
Press.
Donahue, Brian. Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in a New
England Town. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2001.
Dunaway, Finis. 2008. Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American
Environmental Reform. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Egan, Michael. 2009. Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival: The Remaking of
American Environmentalism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Elkind, Sarah S. 1998. Bay Cities and Water Politics: The Battle for Resources in
Boston and Oakland. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
Fiege, Mark. 1999. Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the
American West. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Fox, Stephen. 1981. American Conservation Movement: John Muir And His Legacy.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Gandy, Matthew. 2003. Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City.
Cambridge: MIT Press.
Garone, Philip. 2011. The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California’s Great Central
Valley. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Gottdiener, Mark, Claudia C. Collins, and Dvid R. Dickens. 1999. Las Vegas: The
Social Production of an All-American City. Malden, Mass: Wiley-Blackwell.
Gowdy-Wygant, Cecilia. 2013. Cultivating Victory: The Women's Land Army and the
Victory Garden Movement. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Gregg, Sara M. 2010. Managing the Mountains: Land Use Planning, the New Deal,
and the Creation of a Federal Landscape in Appalachia. New Haven: Yale
University Press.
Gutfreund, Owen D. 2004. Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping
of the American Landscape. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Hagen, Joel. 1992. An Entangled Bank: The Origins of Ecosystem Ecology. New
Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Harvey, Mark W. T. 1994. A Symbol of Wilderness: Echo Park and the American
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Wilderness Act. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
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Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955-1985. New York: Cambridge
University Press.
Hays, Samuel P. 2006. Wars in the Woods: The Rise of Ecological Forestry in
America. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press.
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Century of the U.S. Forest Service. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
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Conservation Movement, 1890-1920. Cambridge: Harvard University Press..
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since World War Two. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Hou, Shen. 2013. The City Natural: Garden and Forest Magazine and the Rise of
American Environmentalism. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Huffman, Thomas R. 1994. Protectors of the Land and Water: Environmentalism in
Wisconsin, 1961-1968. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Hurley, Andrew. 1995. Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial
Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980. Chapel Hill: The University of North
Carolina Press.
Jacoby, Karl. 2001. Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the
Hidden History of American Conservation. University of California Press..
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Kehoe, Terence. 1997. Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: From Cooperation to
Confrontation. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
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Klingle, Matthew. 2007. Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle. New
Haven: Yale University Press.
Lanoo, Michael J. 2010. Leopold's Shack and Ricketts's Lab: The Emergence of
Environmentalism. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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America. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Lifset, Robert D. 2014. Power on the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and the
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Longhurst, James. 2010. Citizen Environmentalists. Medford, MA: Tufts University
Press.
Longhurst, James. 2015. Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road.
Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Louter, David. 2006. Windshield Wilderness: Cars, Roads, and Nature in
Washington’s National Parks. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Markowitz, Gerald, and David Rosner. 2002. Deceit and Denial: The Deadly
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the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
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Struggle for the Soul of the West. New York: Henry Holt.
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McCool, Daniel. 2014. River Republic: The Fall and Rise of America’s Rivers. New
York: Columbia University Press.
McNeill, I.R. 2003. “The Nature of Environmental History: Observations on the
Nature and Culture of Environmental History.” History and Theory 42: 5–43.
Melosi, Martin V. 2011. Precious Commodity: Providing Water for America’s Cities.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Melosi, Martin V. 2000. The Sanitary City: Environmental Services in Urban
America from Colonial Times to the Present. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press.
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Routledge.
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Water Act, 1945-1972. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
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Environmental Thought in America. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press.
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of “Silent Spring.” Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
Nash, Linda. Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and
Knowledge. 2007. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Neuzil, Mark. 2008. The Environment and the Press: From Adventure Writing to
Advocacy. Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press.
Norton, Peter D. 2011. Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American
City. Cambridge, MA. MIT Press.
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Obach, Brian K. 2004. Labor and the Environmental Movement: The Quest for
Common Ground. Cambridge: MIT Press.
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Flood Control. Durham N.C.: Duke University Press Books.
Orsi, Jared. 2004. Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Pincetl, Stephanie S. 1999. Transforming California: A Political History of Land Use and
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Pisani, Donald J. 2002. Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau,
National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935. Berkeley: University of
California Press.
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Water. Revised edition. New York: Penguin.
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Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism. New York:
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of American Environmentalism. New York: Cambridge University Press.
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Made the First Green Generation. Hill and Wang.
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Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
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Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring. New York: Cambridge University
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History. New Haven: Yale University Press.
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Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America. Chapel Hill: University of
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Summers, Gregory. 2006. Consuming Nature: Environmentalism in the Fox River
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the United States, 1880-1970. Translated by Thomas Dunlap. Pittsburgh, Pa:
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