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Scopus Author ID: 6602576228
ISNI: 0000000116290397

Keywords

comparative environmental politics, sociology of environment and natural resources, sustainability transitions, ecological modernization, illiberalism and the environment, water governance, climate change, research ethics

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United States, Australia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand

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Employment (4)

College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York: Syracuse, NY, US

2022-09-01 to present | Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Environmental Policy (Environmental Studies)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld

College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York: Syracuse, NY, US

2007-09-01 to 2022-08-31 | Professor of Sociology and Environmental Policy (Environmental Studies)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld

Washington State University: Richland, WA, US

2001-10 to 2007-08 | Asst./ Associate Professor (Community and Rural Sociology)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld

Washington State University: Richland, WA, US

1996-08 to 2001-10 | Assistant Professor (Sociology)
Employment
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David A. Sonnenfeld

Education and qualifications (1)

University of California Santa Cruz: Santa Cruz, CA, US

1989-09 to 1996-08 | Ph.D. (Sociology)
Education
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld

Professional activities (2)

Syracuse University: Syracuse, NY, US

2009 to present | Affiliate Faculty (Sociology)
Invited position
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld

Wageningen University: Wageningen, Gelderland, NL

2004 to present | Research Associate (Environmental Policy Group)
Invited position
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld

Works (47)

Protecting and Benefitting from Nature: Insights and Policy Dilemmas from Africa

Society & Natural Resources
2025-02-24 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2025.2466171
Contributors: Frank Matose; Lotsmart Fonjong; David A. Sonnenfeld
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Climate change in Africa: Impacts, adaptation, and policy responses

Global Environmental Change
2024-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102912
Contributors: Lotsmart Fonjong; Frank Matose; David A. Sonnenfeld
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Redefining ethics and ethics research directions for environmental studies/sciences from student evaluations

Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences
2022-07-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s13412-022-00776-8
Part of ISSN: 2190-6483
Part of ISSN: 2190-6491
Contributors: Dianne Quigley; David A. Sonnenfeld; Phil Brown; Tracie Ferreira
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld

Mangrove use and management within the Sine-Saloum Delta, Senegal

Ocean and Coastal Management
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2019.105001
EID:

2-s2.0-85075443780

Part of ISBN:

09645691
Contributors: Gallup, L.; Sonnenfeld, D.A.; Dahdouh-Guebas, F.
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David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier
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Survey on Using Ethical Principles in Environmental Field Research with Place-Based Communities

Science and Engineering Ethics
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-017-9981-4
EID:

2-s2.0-85039992926
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld

Liberalism, Illiberalism, and the Environment

Society and Natural Resources
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2018.1436375
EID:

2-s2.0-85043517031

Part of ISBN:

15210723 08941920
Contributors: Sonnenfeld, D.A.; Taylor, P.L.
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David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

Neglected environmental health impacts of China's supply-side structural reform

Environment International
2018-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2018.03.006
Part of ISSN: 0160-4120
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld

Scientific Publishing in the 21st Century: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Environmental Social Sciences

Society and Natural Resources
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2017.1243432
EID:

2-s2.0-84992075125
Contributors: Sonnenfeld, D.A.; Taylor, P.L.
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

Water Crises and Institutions: Inventing and Reinventing Governance in an Era of Uncertainty

Society and Natural Resources
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2017.1274208
EID:

2-s2.0-85011928662
Contributors: Taylor, P.L.; Sonnenfeld, D.A.
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David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

Water Crises and Governance: Reinventing Collaborative Institutions in an Era of Uncertainty

Routledge
2017-12 | Book
ISBN: 978-1-138-29976-4
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld

Looking Back on Our First Year and Forward to the Second

Society and Natural Resources
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2016.1116848
EID:

2-s2.0-84948650633
Contributors: Taylor, P.L.; Sonnenfeld, D.A.
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

Research ethics training on place-based communities and cultural groups

Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s13412-015-0236-x
EID:

2-s2.0-85006216419
Contributors: Quigley, D.; Sonnenfeld, D.; Brown, P.; Silka, L.; He, L.; Tian, Q.
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

Introduction from the New Editors-in-Chief (2015–2017)

Society and Natural Resources
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2015.997652
EID:

2-s2.0-84920022875
Contributors: Sonnenfeld, D.A.; Taylor, P.L.
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

Social construction of the environment and smallholder farmers' participation in 'low-carbon', agro-industrial crop production contracts in the Philippines

Ecological Economics
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.04.017
EID:

2-s2.0-84928165036
Contributors: Montefrio, M.J.F.; Sonnenfeld, D.A.; Luzadis, V.A.
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David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

Ecological modernisation around the world: An introduction

Ecological Modernisation Around the World: Perspectives and Critical Debates
2014 | Book chapter
EID:

2-s2.0-85071328580
Contributors: Mol, A.P.J.; Sonnenfeld, D.A.
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David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

Explaining sectoral discrepancies between national and provincial statistics in China

China Economic Review
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2014.07.004
EID:

2-s2.0-84908376556
Contributors: Ma, B.; Song, G.; Zhang, L.; Sonnenfeld, D.A.
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

Routledge international handbook of social and environmental change

2014 | Book
DOI: 10.4324/9780203814550
ISBN:

9780415782791

ISBN:

9780203814550

EID:

2-s2.0-85062254743
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David A. Sonnenfeld

Wildlife conservation and protected areas in China: A law and policy bibliography

Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/13880292.2014.953394
EID:

2-s2.0-84988378396
Contributors: Sonnenfeld, D.A.; Snyder, K.D.
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

Ecological modernization theory: Taking stock, moving forward

Routledge International Handbook of Social and Environmental Change
2013 | Book chapter
Part of DOI: 10.4324/9780203814550
EID:

2-s2.0-84930963343
Contributors: Mol, A.P.J.; Spaargaren, G.; Sonnenfeld, D.A.
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

Global-Local Tensions in Contract Farming of Biofuel Crops Involving Indigenous Communities in the Philippines

Society and Natural Resources
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2012.682114
EID:

2-s2.0-84873917084
Contributors: Montefrio, M.J.F.; Sonnenfeld, D.A.
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

Socio-ecological transformations and the social sciences

Routledge International Handbook of Social and Environmental Change
2013 | Book chapter
Part of DOI: 10.4324/9780203814550
EID:

2-s2.0-85062256592
Contributors: Lockie, S.; Sonnenfeld, D.A.; Fisher, D.R.
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

Food, globalization and sustainability

2012 | Book
DOI: 10.4324/9781849776790
ISBN:

9781849712613

EID:

2-s2.0-84922502755

ISBN:

9781849712606
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld

Resolving forest property rights disputes in China: The Bailian case

Systems Research and Behavioral Science
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/sres.2109
EID:

2-s2.0-84868612539
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld

Forests, fuel, or food? competing coalitions and biofuels policy making in the philippines

Journal of Environment and Development
2011 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/1070496510394321
EID:

2-s2.0-79952035870
Contributors: Montefrio, M.J.F.; Sonnenfeld, D.A.
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David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

Is the concept of a green economy a useful way of framing policy discussions and policymaking to promote sustainable development?

Natural Resources Forum
2011 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-8947.2011.01347.x
EID:

2-s2.0-79951745862
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David A. Sonnenfeld

Social theory and the environment in the new world (dis)order

Global Environmental Change
2011 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.03.019
EID:

2-s2.0-79960041602
Contributors: Sonnenfeld, D.A.; Mol, A.P.J.
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

The ecological modernisation reader : environmental reform in theory and practice

2009 | Book
ISBN:

9780415453707

ISBN:

9780415453714
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld

Communities, natural resources, and environments: African and Asian experiences

Local Environment
2008 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/13549830701809601
EID:

2-s2.0-50349100937
Contributors: Lockie, S.; Sonnenfeld, D.A.
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

Globalisation and environmental governance: Is another world possible?

Global Environmental Change
2008 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.06.002
EID:

2-s2.0-53049098865
Contributors: Sonnenfeld, D.A.
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David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

The interpretation of ecological modernisation in China

Environmental Politics
2007 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/09644010701419170
EID:

2-s2.0-34547585372
Contributors: Zhang, L.; Mol, A.P.J.; Sonnenfeld, D.A.
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David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

Challenging the chip : labor rights and environmental justice in the global electronics industry

2006 | Book
ISBN:

9781592133307
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Corporate social responsibility in Thailand's electronics industry

Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry
2006 | Book
EID:

2-s2.0-84901877870
Contributors: Foran, T.; Sonnenfeld, D.A.
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David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

Environmental reform in Asia

Journal of Environment and Development
2006 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/1070496506288370
EID:

2-s2.0-33646270413
Contributors: Sonnenfeld, D.A.; Mol, A.P.J.
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David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

Environmental reform in Asia: Comparisons, challenges, next steps

Journal of Environment and Development
2006 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/1070496506287135
EID:

2-s2.0-33646241063
Contributors: Sonnenfeld, D.D.; Mol, A.P.J.
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

Global electronics

Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry
2006 | Book
EID:

2-s2.0-84901883317
Contributors: Sonnenfeld, D.A.
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

The quest for sustainability and justice in a high-tech world

Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry
2006 | Book
EID:

2-s2.0-34249843907
Contributors: Smith, T.; Sonnenfeld, D.A.; Pellow, D.N.
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David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

Ecological modernization, governance, and globalization: Epilogue

American Behavioral Scientist
2002 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/0002764202045009009
EID:

2-s2.0-0038457457
Contributors: Sonnenfeld, D.A.; Mol, A.P.J.
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

Globalization and the transformation of environmental governance

American Behavioral Scientist
2002 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/0002764202045009003
EID:

2-s2.0-0038511057
Contributors: Sonnenfeld, D.A.; Mol, A.P.J.
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

Social movements and ecological modernization: The transformation of pulp and paper manufacturing

Development and Change
2002 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-0036184282
Contributors: Sonnenfeld, D.A.
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David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

Contradictions of ecological modernisation: Pulp and paper manufacturing in South-east Asia

Environmental Politics
2000 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/09644010008414518
EID:

2-s2.0-0034078020
Contributors: Sonnenfeld, D.A.
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David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

Ecological modernisation around the world : perspectives and critical debates

2000 | Book
DOI: 10.4324/9781315877808
EID:

2-s2.0-85071289662

ISBN:

9780714650647

ISBN:

9780714681139
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David A. Sonnenfeld

From brown to green?: Late Industrialization, Social Conflict, and Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Thailand's Pulp Industry

Organization & Environment
1998 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/0921810698111003
EID:

2-s2.0-0031813125
Contributors: Sonnenfeld, D.A.
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David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

Globalization of the Washington Apple Industry: Its Evolution and Impacts

The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
1998 | Journal article
DOI: doi.org/10.48416/ijsaf.v7i.361
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David A. Sonnenfeld

Logging v Recycling: Problems in the Industrial Ecology of Pulp Manufacturing in South-East Asia

Greener Management International
1998 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld

Social movements, environment, and technology in Indonesia's pulp and paper industry

Asia Pacific Viewpoint
1998 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-0031840516
Contributors: Sonnenfeld, D.A.
Source: Self-asserted source
David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

The Ghost of Wesley Vale: Environmentalists' Influence on Innovation in Australia's Pulp and Paper Industry

Competition & Change
1996-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/102452949600100403
Part of ISSN: 1024-5294
Part of ISSN: 1477-2221
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David A. Sonnenfeld

Mexico's "green revolution", 1940-1980: towards an environmental history

Environmental History Review
1992 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-0027101341
Contributors: Sonnenfeld, D.A.
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David A. Sonnenfeld via Scopus - Elsevier

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