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Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research Beth Schaefer Caniglia Andrew Jorgenson Stephanie A. Malin Lori Peek David N. Pellow Xiaorui Huang Editors Handbook of Environmental Sociology Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research SeriesEditor RichardSerpe,DepartmentofSociology KentUniversity,Kent,OH,USA The handbook series includes the latest and up-to-date overviews on topics that are of key significance to contemporary sociological and related social scienceresearch,includingrecenttopicsandareasofscholarship.Severalof thevolumesdiscussimportanttopicsfromaninterdisciplinarysocialscience perspective, covering sociology, anthropology, psychology, and psychiatry. This prestigious series includes works by some of the top scholars in their fields. These foundational works seek to record where the field has been, to identifyitscurrentlocation,andtoplotitscourseforthefuture. 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Pellow Xiaorui Huang Editors Handbook of Environmental Sociology Editors BethSchaeferCaniglia AndrewJorgenson TheSolutionsJournal DepartmentofSociologyand NewOrleans,LA,USA EnvironmentalStudiesProgram BostonCollege ChestnutHill,MA,USA StephanieA.Malin LoriPeek DepartmentofSociology DepartmentofSociology ColoradoStateUniversity andNaturalHazardsCenter FortCollins,CO,USA UniversityofColoradoBoulder Boulder,CO,USA DavidN.Pellow XiaoruiHuang EnvironmentalStudiesProgram DepartmentofSociology UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara BostonCollege SantaBarbara,CA,USA ChestnutHill,MA,USA ISSN1389-6903 ISSN2542-839X (electronic) HandbooksofSociologyandSocialResearch ISBN978-3-030-77711-1 ISBN978-3-030-77712-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77712-8 #SpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG2021 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsaresolelyandexclusivelylicensedbythePublisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting,reuseofillustrations,recitation,broadcasting,reproductiononmicrofilmsorinany otherphysicalway,andtransmissionorinformationstorageandretrieval,electronicadaptation, computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilarmethodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. 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Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:Gewerbestrasse11,6330Cham,Switzerland Contents 1 Introduction:ATwenty-FirstCenturyPublicEnvironmental Sociology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 BethSchaeferCaniglia,AndrewJorgenson, StephanieA.Malin,LoriPeek,andDavidN.Pellow PartI Inequality,PoliticalEconomy,andJustice 2 IntersectionalityandtheEnvironment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 ChristinaErgas,LauraMcKinney,andShannonElizabethBell 3 EnvironmentalJustice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 RebeccaMaungandDavidN.Pellow 4 EcologicallyUnequalExchangeandEnvironmentalLoad Displacement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 JenniferE.GivensandXiaoruiHuang 5 Consumption. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 AnnikaRiegerandJulietB.Schor 6 CorporationsandtheEnvironment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 SimonePulverandBenManski 7 JustTransitionsandLabor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 ErikKojolaandJulianAgyeman PartII Energy,Climate,andHealth 8 SociologyofEnergy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 StephanieA.Malin,AdamMayer,andJillLindseyHarrison 9 Risk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 AlissaCordner 10 SociologyandClimateChange:AReviewandResearch Agenda. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . .. . . . . 189 DanielleFalzon,J.TimmonsRoberts,andRobertJ.Brulle 11 SociologyofDisasters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 LoriPeek,TriciaWachtendorf,andMichelleAnnetteMeyer v vi Contents 12 EnvironmentalFactorsinHealth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 ElisabethWilderandPhilBrown 13 FoodInsecurity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 DorcetaE.Taylor PartIII Culture,theState,andInstitutions 14 AnimalsinEnvironmentalSociology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 LindaKalofandCameronT.Whitley 15 ReligionandtheEnvironment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 LynnHempel 16 EnvironmentalGovernance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333 DanaR.Fisher,LorienJasny,JoshRedmond, andFredericHeaume 17 GreenCriminology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 MichaelJ.Lynch,MichaelA.Long,andPaulB.Stretesky 18 WarandtheEnvironment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381 MichaelR.Lengefeld,GregoryHooks,andChadL.Smith PartIV Population,Place,andPossibilities 19 EnvironmentalDemography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405 LoriM.HunterandDanielH.Simon 20 LandUseandLandUseChange. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 ThomasK.Rudel 21 StructuralHumanEcology. . . . . .. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . .. . . . 439 ThomasDietzandRichardYork 22 EnvironmentalScienceandTechnologyStudies. . . . . . . . . . . 457 ScottFrickelandFlorenciaArancibia 23 TowardsanIndigenousEnvironmentalSociology. . . . . . . . . 477 KariMarieNorgaardandJamesV.Fenelon 24 EnvironmentalMovementsintheUnitedStates. . . . . . . . . . . 495 ErikW.JohnsonandJordanBurke 25 Socio-EcologicalSystems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517 BethSchaeferCanigliaandBrianMayer 1 Introduction: A Twenty-First Century Public Environmental Sociology Beth Schaefer Caniglia, Andrew Jorgenson, Stephanie A. Malin, Lori Peek, and David N. Pellow Welcome to the Handbook of Environmental future research agenda and an action-oriented Sociology. This volume offers a comprehensive approach to inform readers how to use environ- overviewofenvironmentalsociology,whilealso mentalsociology’smajorlessonstohelpsupport endeavoringtoexpandthepublicrelevanceofthe pathways to more sustainable, just, and demo- field. Given the fundamental and timely lessons cratic futures. This work is relevant for public of environmental sociology, we are excited to policy, people’s lives, and the well-being of all sharethemajorfindingsofleadingscholarswork- species. ing in this area. As a whole, their research Formallyestablishedin1976withthecreation provides a roadmap to help us navigate this oftheAmericanSociologicalAssociation(ASA) moment of great global uncertainty, marked by SectiononEnvironmentalSociology,thesubdis- climate change and disaster, natural resource ciplinehasmaturedandevolvedoverthedecades depletion, pandemic, and record levels of eco- (for overviews see, Buttel, 1987; Catton & nomic inequality. The chapters presented here Dunlap, 1978; Dietz et al., 2020; Dunlap & focus on communicating the major insights of Michelson,2001;Pellow&Brehm,2013).Envi- environmental sociology, while also setting a ronmental sociology has grown from a series of conversations and debates among a relatively small group of scholars in the U.S. to its present B.S.Caniglia statusasadiverseandvibrantglobalcommunity TheSolutionsJournal,NewOrleans,LA,USA producing new knowledge, training new A.Jorgenson generations of students and professionals, and DepartmentofSociologyandEnvironmentalStudies inspiring action across multiple scales (Legun Program,BostonCollege,ChestnutHill,MA,USA et al., 2020a, 2020b; Redclift & Woodgate, e-mail:[email protected] 2010; White, 2004). Through the years, the sub- S.A.Malin fieldhasincreasinglyinfluencedresearchers,pol- DepartmentofSociology,ColoradoStateUniversity,Fort Collins,CO,USA icy makers, and civil society on every continent e-mail:[email protected] andineverysector(Laska,1993). L.Peek Environmental sociology has grown by leaps DepartmentofSociologyandNaturalHazardsCenter, and bounds, with scholars producing impactful UniversityofColoradoBoulder,Boulder,CO,USA research that appears in leading generalist and e-mail:[email protected] interdisciplinary journals and as research D.N.Pellow(*) monographs published by prestigious university EnvironmentalStudiesProgram,UniversityofCalifornia presses. The subdiscipline has experienced SantaBarbara,SantaBarbara,CA,USA e-mail:[email protected] remarkableinternalgrowth,whilesimultaneously #TheAuthor(s),underexclusivelicensetoSpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG2021 1 B.SchaeferCanigliaetal.(eds.),HandbookofEnvironmentalSociology, HandbooksofSociologyand SocialResearch,https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77712-8_1 2 B.S.Canigliaetal. creating and strengthening bridges with other richly textured understanding of the nuances of subfields within sociology such as criminology, the subject area. In this way, this volume will sociology of development, women and gender serve as an overview and introduction for studies, racial and ethnic studies, collective students of the field, as well as an insightful behavior and social movements, and global and treatment that experts can use in their own transnational sociology. Equally important, great researchandpublications. strides have been made to bring environmental In working with the authors to develop their sociology into interdisciplinary conversations chapters,wewereespeciallyinterestedinadvanc- concerning the study of socio-environmental ing areas of environmental sociology that offer relationships—aligning environmental the most generative frameworks for explaining sociologists with scholars and researchers work- and responding to today’s pressing socio- ing in public health, epidemiology, climate sci- environmental problems. What sets this volume ence,politicalscience,geography,anthropology, apart from most environmental sociology urban planning, law, civil engineering, and vari- collections is our emphasis on much-needed ous other scientific and applied disciplines and interventions that respond to the environmental fields(Jorgensonetal.,2019). impacts of social inequalities. To achieve this Environmentalsociologycoursesarenowreg- goal, authors have identified various social fault ularly taught at the undergraduate and graduate lines—suchasthosebasedonrace,class,gender, levelatcollegesanduniversitiesaroundtheworld andgeographiclocation—thatoftentranslateinto as part of disciplinary curricula. They are also environmental conflict and deepen pre-existing offeredasfoundationalcoursesforinterdisciplin- injustices. From there, many of the contributors ary programs, suchas environmental studies and havebeguntoadvancewhatPrasad(2018)refers sustainability studies. As global and regional toasavisionforproblem-solvingsociology. environmental crises continue to unfold, and From the outset, our collective goal has been youthtakealeadingroleinadvocatingforclimate to provide an overview of environmental sociol- justice, demand for these classes only continues ogy that takes significant heed of the nexus of torise. environmentaldegradationandstructuralinequal- ity. The importance of inequality and power is a central theme across much of the discipline of Broader Contributions sociology. However, environmental sociology has tended to relegate attention to inequality to This Handbook of Environmental Sociology thesubfieldtoenvironmentaljusticeorthestudy brings together a spectrum of emerging scholars ofdisastersorclimatechange.Inthisvolume,we and leading thinkers in the field to present have endeavored to unify scholarship that chapters that define the contours and further examinestheroleofinequalityatmultiplescales pushthe boundaries ofenvironmental sociology. across the realm of environmental sociology. As As editors, we asked the contributors to provide such,readerswillfindchaptersthatfocusnotonly historical, theoretical, and methodological con- ontheways thatracial,ethnic,gender,andother text for their chapters. This means that we positionalities predict personal environmental encouraged authors to look to the past to help outcomes, but also on how organizations, identify what is already well established. This institutions,andsocio-ecologicalsystemschannel processhasclarifiedgapsandallowedtheauthors environmentalharmsandbenefits.Thisemphasis toenvisionwhatissues,questions,andneedswill is intentional, and we hope this collection will bemostpressinginthefuture. provide guidance to public and private sector We convened a group of contributors whose decision-makers who wish to foster justice and work and outlooks are broad and deep to ensure equity—which are necessary to advance that each chapter provides a thorough, yet con- sustainability goals—in the communities and cise,overviewoftheselectedtopic,alongwitha organizations that they lead. We also believe 1 Introduction:ATwenty-FirstCenturyPublicEnvironmentalSociology 3 these chapters will be helpful to members of the broaderpolicymaking.Ifwearetomovetoward public who are engaged in these issues, or who more resilient futures, this century will need to wishtobecomeso. see not just more scholarly publications from This collection is further distinguished by its environmental sociologists, but more scholarly emphasis on the implications and elements of leadership in major social and institutional praxis that can lessen or resolve environmental spheres of influence. The work included in this problems through addressing their biophysical, volume can facilitate reasoned and evidence- political-economic, and socio-cultural causes informed choices that can advance collective and outcomes. In that regard, this book reflects socialandenvironmentalwell-being. ourcommitmentnotonlytopolicy-relevantsoci- This volume also features writings that will ology, but to public sociology. When he was appeal to a multidisciplinary audience. While President of the ASA, Michael Burawoy et al. almostalloftheauthorsaresociologistsbytrain- (2004: 104) defined public sociology as a “soci- ing, most of them have extensive experience ology that seeks to bring sociology to publics workingacrossdisciplinaryborderswithscholars beyond the academy, promoting a dialogue from a range of other fields both within and aboutissuesthataffectthefateofsociety,placing outsidethesocialsciences.Manyoftheenviron- the values to which we adhere under a micro- mentalissuesidentifiedinthisHandbookrequire scope.” Three decades earlier, Alfred McClung thecollaboration ofmultidisciplinaryorinterdis- Lee served as the ASA President and wrote that ciplinary teams working from a convergence “The great challenge of social science is the research framework to fully characterize and development and wide dissemination of social respond to the threats at hand (Peek et al., wisdom...” (Lee, 1973: 6). Given the enormity 2020b). Another hallmark of this book is that ofwhatisatstakeforhumankindandtheEarth— we have brought together scholars who are used with regard to anthropogenic climate change in to traversing a wide range of epistemologies, particular and environmental risks across a wide methodologies, and ontologies which is also a spectrum—the importance of sharing sociologi- hallmark of sociology and the social sciences calknowledgewiththepublicisparamounttoall more broadly (Frailing & Brown, 2020; Peek of our survival. The recent global COVID-19 et al., 2020a). In other words, we’ve assembled pandemicand theasymmetric social impacts has a group of scholars whose contributions reflect a broughtthatpointintosharpanddeadlyrelief. rich diversity of concepts, theories, ways of Extending Burawoy and Lee’s ideas, one of knowing,andresearchapproaches. our goals with this volume is to help promote a Theauthorlineuppurposelyincludesamixof new form of public environmental sociology. more seasoned academics as well as rising next While environmental sociology has experienced generation scholars in the field. Regardless of measured success in influencing policy makers career stage, however, all have made important andwithinacademiccircles,weaimforthisvol- contributions in their particular area, or areas, of ume to begin making the sub-field even more environmental sociology. The chapters in this accessible to members of the public, so that the volume were peer-reviewed by leading experts, research can influence public discourses and andoneormore editors helped toshepherdeach inform policy (also see Jorgenson, 2018; Picou, chapter through the process. In the end, many 2008). Why not see environmental sociologists people contributed generously to the content in consulted on the nightly news alongside thisvolume. economists and legal analysts, for example? Or consider, why aren’t environmental sociologists tapped to lead major environmental agencies? Major Themes Across Chapters Sociologists have the methodological skill sets, theoretical lenses, and institutional knowledge The Handbook speaks to several themes in soci- that could help inform public opinion and shape ology that are of enduring interest and part of