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Environmental Sociology

A guide to resources for environmental justice and sociology. For Soc 4950 and intro

From Prof. Scanlan's List: Recommended

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Books on Environmental Justice/Injustice

  1. Adamson, Joni, Mei Mei Evans and Rachel Stein, Eds. 2002.The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press. OhioLINK
  2. Ako, Rhuks. 2013. Environmental Justice in Developing Countries: Perspectives from Africa and Asia-Pacific. New York:Routledge. OhioLINK
  3. Agyeman, Julian. 2013. Introducing Just Sustainabilities: Policy, Planning and Practice. London: Zed Books. OhioLINK
  4. Agyeman, Julian. 2005. Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental Justice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 
  5. Agyeman, Julian, Robert D. Bullard, and Bob Evans. 2003. Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 
  6. Agyeman, Julian, Peter Cole, Randolph Haluza-DeLay, and Pat O'Riley, Eds. 2010. Speaking for Ourselves Environmental Justice in Canada. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press. OhioLINK
  7. Auyero, Javier and Debora Alejandra Swistun. 2009. Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine ShantytownNew York: Oxford University Press. 
  8. Bryant, Bunyan (ed.). 1995. Environmental Justice: Issues, Policies, and Solutions. Washington, D.C.: Island Press. OhioLINK
  9. Bullard, Robert D. 2005. The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. 
  10. Bullard, Robert D. 2000. Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality. Boulder, CO: Westview. 
  11. Bullard, Robert D. 1994. Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. 
  12. Bullard, Robert D. 1993. Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots. Boston, MA: South End Press. 
  13. Bullard, Robert and Beverly Wright, (eds.) 2009. Race, Place, and Environmental Justice after Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. OhioLINK
  14. Carmin, JoAnn and Julian Agyeman. 2011. Environmental Inequalities beyond Borders: Local Perspectives on Global Injustices. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. OhioLINK
  15. Carruthers, David. 2008. Environmental Justice in Latin America. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 
  16. Carson, Rachel. 1962. Silent Spring. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. 
  17. Clapp, Jennifer. 2001. Toxic Exports: The Transfer of Hazardous Wastes from Rich to Poor Countries. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  18. Clifford, Mary and Terry D. Edwards. 2011. Environmental Crime. Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett.
  19. Cuesta, Camacho David E. 1998. Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles: Race, Class, and the Environment. Durham: Duke University Press.
  20. Dyson, Michael Eric 2006. Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster. New York: Basic Books.
  21. Erikson, Kai T. 1978. Everything in Its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood. New York: Simon and Schuster.
  22. Faber, Daniel. 2008. Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice: The Polluter-industrial Complex in the Age of Globalization. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
  23. Gottlieb, Robert and Anupalma Joshi. 2010. Food Justice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  24. Harrison, Jill Lindsey. 2011. Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  25. Hill, Barry E. Environmental Justice: Second Edition. Washington, D.C.: the Environmental Law Institute.
  26. Johnson, Glenn S., Shirley A. Rainey-Brown, and Richard D.S. Gragg, III. 2012. Environmental Justice Reader – II: A Survey and Review of Critical Issues in Disenfranchised and Vulnerable Communities in the Twenty-First Century. Ronkonkoma, NY: Linus Publications.
  27. Kallen, Evelyn. 2004. Social inequality and social injustice: A human rights perspective. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  28. LaDuke, Winona. 1999. All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life. Boston: South End Press.
  29. Lerner, Steve Lerner. 2005. Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  30. Levy, Barry S., and Victor W. Sidel. 2006. Social Injustice and Public Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  31. Mascarenhas, Michael. 2012. Where the Waters Divide: Neoliberalism, White Privilege, and Environmental Racism in Canada. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
  32. Meyer, Art, and Jocele Meyer. 1991. Earth-keepers: Environmental Perspectives on Hunger, Poverty, and Injustice. Scottdale, PA: Herald.
  33. Morrone, Michele and Geoffrey L. Buckley (eds.). 2011. Mountains of Injustice: Social and Environmental Justice in Appalachia. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.
  34. Mutz, Kathryn, Gary Bryner, and Douglas Kenney, (eds.). 2001. Justice and Natural Resources: Concepts, Strategies, and Applications. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
  35. Newton, David E. 2009. Environmental Justice: A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
  36. Park, Lisa Sun-Hee and David Pellow. 2011. The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America’s Eden. New York: NYU Press.
  37. Pavel, M. Paloma. 2009. Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the next American Metropolis. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  38. Pellow, David Naguib and Lisa Sun-Hee Park. 2002. The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy. New York: NYU Press.
  39. Pellow, David N. 2002. Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  40. Pulido, Laura. 1996. Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
  41. Rechtschaffen, Clifford, Eileen Gauna, and Catherine O’Neill. 2009. Environmental Justice: Law, Policy & Regulation. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
  42. Roberts, J. Timmons and Bradley Parks. 2006. A Climate of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  43. Roberts, J. Timmons and Melissa Tofflon-Weiss. 2001. Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  44. Robinson, Joanna. 2006. Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  45. Sawyer, Suzana. 2004. Crude Chronicles Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  46. Schlosberg, David. 2007. Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  47. Shevory, Thomas. 2007. Toxic Burn: The Grassroots Struggle against the WTI Incinerator. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  48. Shiva, Vandana. 2005. Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace. Cambridge, MA: South End Press.
  49. Shrader-Frechette, Kristin. 2011. Taking Action, Saving Lives: Our Duties to Protect Environmental and Public Health. New York: Oxford University Press.
  50. Shrader-Frechette, Kristin. 2005. Environmental Justice: Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press.
  51. Smith, Ted, David A. Sonnenfeld, and David Naguib Pellow, (eds.). 2006. Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  52. Spiegel, Samuel J. 2009. “Occupational Health, Mercury Exposure, and Environmental Justice: Learning From Experiences in Tanzania.” American Journal of Public Health 99(S3): S550-S558.
  53. Sze, Julie. 2006. Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  54. Terry, Geraldine, and Caroline Sweetman (eds.). 2009. Climate Change and Gender Justice. Rugby, UK: Practical Action.
  55. Walker, Gordon. 2012. Environmental Justice: Concepts, Evidence and Politics. London: Routledge.
  56. Washington, Sylvia Hood, Heather Goodall, and Paul C. Rosier. 2006. Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice. Lanham, MD: Lexington.
  57. Westra, Laura. 2009. Environmental Justice and the Rights of Ecological Refugees. New York: Routledge.
  58.     58.White, Rob. 2008. Crimes against Nature: Environmental Criminology and Ecological Justice. New York: Willan.
  59. Widener, Patricia. 2011. Oil Injustice: Resisting and Conceding a Pipeline in Ecuador. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
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Environmental Justice Movement and Activism

  1. Barry, Joyce M. Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.
  2. Blum, Elizabeth D. 2008. Love Canal Revisited: Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental Activism. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press.
  3. Camacho, David E. (ed.) 1998. Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles: Race, Class and the Environment. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  4. Checker, Melissa. 2005. Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town.
  5. Cole, Luke W., and Sheila R. Foster. 2001. From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement. New York: NYU Press.
  6. Davies, Kate. 2013. The Rise of the U.S. Environmental Health Movement. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
  7. Faber, Daniel Richard. 1998. The Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Environmental Justice Movements in the United States. New York: Guilford Press.
  8. House, Silas and Jason Howard. 2011. Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal. Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press.
  9. Novotny, Patrick. 2000. Where We Live, Work and Play: The Environmental Justice Movement and the Struggle for a New Environmentalism. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.
  10. Ottinger, Gwen and Benjamin R. Cohen (eds.). 2011. Technoscience and Environmental Justice: Expert Cultures in a Grassroots Movement. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  11. Pellow, David N. 2007. Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  12. Pellow, David and R. Brulle. 2005. Power, Justice and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  13. Roberts, J. Timmons and Melissa M. Toffolon-Weiss. 2001. Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  14. Sandler, Ronald and Phaedra C. Pezzullo. 2007. Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  15. Stein, Rachel. 2004. New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
  16. Szasz, Andrew. 1998. Ecopopulism: Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.