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John Bellamy Foster - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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henri lefebvre s marxian ecological critique recovering a foundational contribution to Environmental Sociology
Environmental Sociology, 2020Co-Authors: John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, Brian M Napoletano, Pedro S UrquijoAbstract:French Marxist sociologist, Henri Lefebvre, was one of the foremost social theorists of the twentieth century, celebrated for his critiques of everyday life, urban revolution, and the production of...
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The Sociology of Ecology Ecological Organicism Versus Ecosystem Ecology in the Social Construction
2016Co-Authors: Of Ecological Science, John Bellamy Foster, Brett ClarkAbstract:Environmental Sociology has been divided in recent years by a debate between realists and constructionists centering on the knowledge claims of ecological science. Following a consid-eration of this debate and its relation to both Environmental Sociology and the “Sociology of ecology, ” a “realist constructionism ” is advanced, taking as its concrete case the conflict in the 1920s and 1930s between Jan Christian Smuts’s organicist ecology and Arthur Tansley’s ecosystem ecology. A central analytical issue (derived from Marx and Engels) is the “double transfer ” of ideas from society to nature and back again and how this was manifested in the early 20th-century ecology in the form of a justification for ecological racism/apartheid
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2013Co-Authors: John Bellamy Foster, Brett ClarkAbstract:Environmental Sociology has been divided in recent years by a debate between realists and constructionists centering on the knowledge claims of ecological science. Following a consideration of this debate and its relation to both Environmental Sociology and the “Sociology of ecology, ” a “realist constructionism ” is advanced, taking as its concrete case the conflict in the 1920s and 1930s between Jan Christian Smuts’s organicist ecology and Arthur Tansley’s ecosystem ecology. A central analytical issue (derived from Marx and Engels) is the “double transfer ” of ideas from society to nature and back again and how this was manifested in the early 20th-century ecology in the form of a justification for ecological racism/apartheid
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the planetary rift and the new human exemptionalism a political economic critique of ecological modernization theory
Organization & Environment, 2012Co-Authors: John Bellamy FosterAbstract:Environmental Sociology must address two challenges, emanating both from without and within. The world is faced with a growing planetary rift, as planetary boundaries are being crossed. At the same time a new exemptionalism in the form of ecological modernization theory has arisen within Environmental Sociology, resurrecting many aspects of the human exemptionalist model characteristic of post–Second World War modernization theory that Environmental Sociology in its formative years opposed. The answer to these two challenges, it is argued, lies in the development of a political-economic and rational-historical critique of the capitalist Environmental regime in the traditions of Marx and Weber. This demands, however, the outright rejection of the new exemptionalism.
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marx s theory of metabolic rift classical foundations for Environmental Sociology
American Journal of Sociology, 1999Co-Authors: John Bellamy FosterAbstract:This article addresses a paradox: on the one hand, Environmental Sociology, as currently developed, is closely associated with the thesis that the classical sociological tradition is devoid of systematic insights into Environmental problems; on the other hand, evidence of crucial classical contributions in this area, particularly in Marx, but also in Weber, Durkheim, and others, is too abundant to be convincingly denied. The nature of this paradox, its origins, and the means of transcending it are illustrated primarily through an analysis of Marx's theory of metabolic rift, which, it is contended, offers important classical foundations for Environmental Sociology.
Brett Clark - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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henri lefebvre s marxian ecological critique recovering a foundational contribution to Environmental Sociology
Environmental Sociology, 2020Co-Authors: John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, Brian M Napoletano, Pedro S UrquijoAbstract:French Marxist sociologist, Henri Lefebvre, was one of the foremost social theorists of the twentieth century, celebrated for his critiques of everyday life, urban revolution, and the production of...
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sustainability and Environmental Sociology putting the economy in its place and moving toward an integrative socio ecology
Sustainability, 2016Co-Authors: Stefano B Longo, Brett Clark, Thomas E Shriver, Rebecca ClausenAbstract:The vague, yet undoubtedly desirable, notion of sustainability has been discussed and debated by many natural and social scientists. We argue that mainstream conceptions of sustainability, and the related concept of sustainable development, are mired in a “pre-analytic vision” that naturalizes capitalist social relations, closes off important questions regarding economic growth, and thus limits the potential for an integrative socio-ecological analysis. Theoretical and empirical research within Environmental Sociology provides key insights to overcome the aforementioned problems, whereby the social, historical, and Environmental relationships associated with the tendencies and qualities of the dominant economic system are analyzed. We highlight how several Environmental Sociology perspectives—such as human ecology, the treadmill of production, and metabolic analysis—can serve as the basis for a more integrative socio-ecological conception and can help advance the field of sustainability science.
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The Sociology of Ecology Ecological Organicism Versus Ecosystem Ecology in the Social Construction
2016Co-Authors: Of Ecological Science, John Bellamy Foster, Brett ClarkAbstract:Environmental Sociology has been divided in recent years by a debate between realists and constructionists centering on the knowledge claims of ecological science. Following a consid-eration of this debate and its relation to both Environmental Sociology and the “Sociology of ecology, ” a “realist constructionism ” is advanced, taking as its concrete case the conflict in the 1920s and 1930s between Jan Christian Smuts’s organicist ecology and Arthur Tansley’s ecosystem ecology. A central analytical issue (derived from Marx and Engels) is the “double transfer ” of ideas from society to nature and back again and how this was manifested in the early 20th-century ecology in the form of a justification for ecological racism/apartheid
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2013Co-Authors: John Bellamy Foster, Brett ClarkAbstract:Environmental Sociology has been divided in recent years by a debate between realists and constructionists centering on the knowledge claims of ecological science. Following a consideration of this debate and its relation to both Environmental Sociology and the “Sociology of ecology, ” a “realist constructionism ” is advanced, taking as its concrete case the conflict in the 1920s and 1930s between Jan Christian Smuts’s organicist ecology and Arthur Tansley’s ecosystem ecology. A central analytical issue (derived from Marx and Engels) is the “double transfer ” of ideas from society to nature and back again and how this was manifested in the early 20th-century ecology in the form of a justification for ecological racism/apartheid
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the metabolic rift and marine ecology an analysis of the ocean crisis within capitalist production
Organization & Environment, 2005Co-Authors: Rebecca Clausen, Brett ClarkAbstract:This article develops a theoretical foundation for understanding the human influence on the oceans and the resulting oceanic crisis as it relates to the depletion of fish stock and the expansion of aquaculture. Drawing on Environmental Sociology and insights from the historical materialist tradition, the authors study the nature-society dialectic as it relates to human interactions with the ocean for the capture of fish. We extend Marx’s concept of the metabolic rift to the marine environment to (a) understand the human transformations of the ocean ecosystem, (b) examine the anthropogenic (human-generated) causes of fish stock depletion, (c) study the development of aquaculture in response to the oceanic crisis, and (d) reveal the ecological consequences of ongoing capitalist production in relation to the ocean environment.
Damian F White - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a political Sociology of socionatures revisionist manoeuvres in Environmental Sociology
Environmental Politics, 2006Co-Authors: Damian F WhiteAbstract:Abstract Grow or die/treadmill of production (GOD/TOP) discourses have played a valuable role in insisting that the antagonism between capitalist political economy and ecology should be a central concern of Environmental Sociology. However, this article raises questions as to the extent to which emphatic versions of this argument are sufficiently subtle for grasping what is at stake in the current Environmental debate. In neo-liberal times, ‘Nature’ may well be made and remade as a commodity as ever before. However, a range of developments from the Sociology of Environmental science to the rise of non-equilibrium ecology, critical political ecology to the desire to develop post-naturalistic agential and cultural materialisms in human geography and science and technology studies all point to considerable complexities in unravelling winners and losers in this process. Engagement with the uneven spread, revisions, reversals and pathologies of ecological modernisation introduces further points of uncertainty ...
Riley E Dunlap - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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key topics in Environmental Sociology 1990 2014 results from a computational text analysis
Environmental Sociology, 2018Co-Authors: Jeremiah Bohr, Riley E DunlapAbstract:ABSTRACTEnvironmental Sociology is a growing field producing a diverse body of literature while also moving into the mainstream of the larger discipline. The twin goals of this paper are to introdu...
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reflections on early contributions to Environmental Sociology
2015Co-Authors: Riley E DunlapAbstract:The author discusses his collaboration with William Catton that led to several early articles aimed at providing an intellectual foundation for a field of Environmental Sociology. The differing backgrounds and interests they each brought to their collaboration and the context in which it developed are outlined, along with the author’s assessment of the major goals of their key publications. The growth of Environmental Sociology and increased disciplinary attention to ecological problems, spurred by the growing societal salience of such problems, suggests that Sociology has begun to shed the human exemptionalist paradigm that dominated the discipline when the field of Environmental Sociology was launched.
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promoting a paradigm change reflections on early contributions to Environmental Sociology
Organization & Environment, 2008Co-Authors: Riley E DunlapAbstract:The author discusses his collaboration with William Catton that led to several early articles aimed at providing an intellectual foundation for a field of Environmental Sociology. The differing backgrounds and interests they each brought to their collaboration and the context in which it developed are outlined, along with the author's assessment of the major goals of their key publications. The growth of Environmental Sociology and increased disciplinary attention to ecological problems, spurred by the growing societal salience of such problems, suggests that Sociology has begun to shed the human exemptionalist paradigm that dominated the discipline when the field of Environmental Sociology was launched.
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handbook of Environmental Sociology
Contemporary Sociology, 2003Co-Authors: David N Pellow, Riley E Dunlap, William MichelsonAbstract:Environmental Sociology: An Introduction by Riley E. Dunlap, William Michelson, and Glenn Stalker Sociological Theory and the Natural Environment by Frederick H. Buttel and Craig R. Humphrey Theory and the Sociological Study of the Built Environment by William Michelson and Willem van Vliet-- Socio-Behavioral Qualities of the Built Environment by Sherry Ahrentzen Macro-Environments and People: Cities, Suburbs, and Metropolitan Areas by David Popenoe and William Michelson Designing the Built Environment by Leslie Kilmartin Rural Environments and Agriculture by Don E. Albrecht and Steve H. Murdock Energy, Society, and Environment by Loren Lutzenhiser, Craig K. Harris, and Marvin E. Olsen Natural Hazards and Disasters by Joanne M. Nigg and Dennis Mileti Technological Hazards and Disasters by Steve Kroll-Smith, Stephen R. Couch, and Adeline G. Levine Risk, Technology, and Society by Thomas Dietz, R. Scott Frey, and Eugene A. Rosa Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change by Thomas Dietz and Eugene A. Rosa Social Impact Assessment and Technology Assessment by Kurt Finsterbusch and William R. Freudenburg The Environmental Movement in the United States by Angela G. Mertig, Riley E. Dunlap and Denton R. Morrison Environmental Concern: Conceptual and Measurement Issues by Riley E. Dunlap and Robert Emmet Jones Environmental Sociology in Nonacademic Settings by Barbara A. Payne and Christopher Cluett
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which function s of the environment do we study a comparison of Environmental and natural resource Sociology
Society & Natural Resources, 2002Co-Authors: Riley E Dunlap, William R. CattonAbstract:Natural resource Sociology and Environmental Sociology have different historical roots, organizational identities, institutional bases of support, and scholarly orientations, yet both share a common concern with understanding the Environmental bases of human societies. Differences as well as similarities between the research foci of the two fields are illustrated by distinguishing between three fundamental functions that ecosystems serve for human societies: supply depot, waste repository, and living space. While natural resource sociologists pay relatively greater attention to the supply depot function (ecosystems as the source of natural resources), their work inevitably touches on the other two functions as well and therefore is not necessarily narrower in focus than that of Environmental sociologists. Yet, despite their common concerns, the differing bases of support, orientations, and clienteles for the two fields suggest that there is good reason for both to retain their separate identities.
Rebecca Clausen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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sustainability and Environmental Sociology putting the economy in its place and moving toward an integrative socio ecology
Sustainability, 2016Co-Authors: Stefano B Longo, Brett Clark, Thomas E Shriver, Rebecca ClausenAbstract:The vague, yet undoubtedly desirable, notion of sustainability has been discussed and debated by many natural and social scientists. We argue that mainstream conceptions of sustainability, and the related concept of sustainable development, are mired in a “pre-analytic vision” that naturalizes capitalist social relations, closes off important questions regarding economic growth, and thus limits the potential for an integrative socio-ecological analysis. Theoretical and empirical research within Environmental Sociology provides key insights to overcome the aforementioned problems, whereby the social, historical, and Environmental relationships associated with the tendencies and qualities of the dominant economic system are analyzed. We highlight how several Environmental Sociology perspectives—such as human ecology, the treadmill of production, and metabolic analysis—can serve as the basis for a more integrative socio-ecological conception and can help advance the field of sustainability science.
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the metabolic rift and marine ecology an analysis of the ocean crisis within capitalist production
Organization & Environment, 2005Co-Authors: Rebecca Clausen, Brett ClarkAbstract:This article develops a theoretical foundation for understanding the human influence on the oceans and the resulting oceanic crisis as it relates to the depletion of fish stock and the expansion of aquaculture. Drawing on Environmental Sociology and insights from the historical materialist tradition, the authors study the nature-society dialectic as it relates to human interactions with the ocean for the capture of fish. We extend Marx’s concept of the metabolic rift to the marine environment to (a) understand the human transformations of the ocean ecosystem, (b) examine the anthropogenic (human-generated) causes of fish stock depletion, (c) study the development of aquaculture in response to the oceanic crisis, and (d) reveal the ecological consequences of ongoing capitalist production in relation to the ocean environment.