Articles & Chapters
Journal Symposia
- Sonnenfeld, David A., and Peter Leigh Taylor, eds. 2018. Special Issue on "Society and Natural Resources in an Illiberal World,"Society & Natural Resources, Vol. 31, No. 5 (May) [link]
- Taylor, Peter Leigh, and David A. Sonnenfeld, eds. 2017. Special Issue on "Water Crises and Institutions: Governance Challenges in an Era of Uncertainty," Society & Natural Resources, Vol. 30, No. 4 (April) [link]
- Sonnenfeld, David A., and Arthur P.J. Mol, eds. 2011. Symposium on "Social Theory and the Environment in the New World (dis)Order", Global Environmental Change, Vol. 21, No. 3 (August) [link]
- Sonnenfeld, David A., ed. 2008. Special Issue on "Globalisation and Environmental Governance," Global Environmental Change, Vol. 18, No. 3 (August) [link]
- Sonnenfeld, David A., and Stewart Lockie, eds. 2008. Special Issue on "Communities, Natural Resources, and Environments," Local Environment, Vol. 13, No. 5 (July) [link]
- Sonnenfeld, David A., and Arthur P.J. Mol, eds. 2006. Special Issue on "Environmental Reform in Asia," The Journal of Environment and Development, Vol. 15, No. 2 (June) [link]
- Sonnenfeld, David A., and Arthur P.J. Mol, eds. 2002. Special Issue on "Globalization, Governance, and the Environment," American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 45, No. 9 (May) [link]
- Mol, Arthur P.J., and David A. Sonnenfeld, eds. 2000. Special Issue on "Ecological Modernisation," Environmental Politics, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring)
Journal Articles
- Zhang, Wei, Lei Zhang, Ying Li, Yuling Tian, Xiaoran Li, Xue Zhang, Arthur P.J. Mol, David A. Sonnenfeld, Jianguo Liu, Zeyu Ping, and Long Chen. 2018. "Neglected Environmental Health Impacts of China's Supply-side Structural Reform," Environment International, No. 115, pp. 97-103. [link]
- Sonnenfeld, David A., and Peter Leigh Taylor. 2018. "Liberalism, Illiberalism, and the Environment," Society & Natural Resources, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 515-524. [link]
- Taylor, Peter Leigh, and David A. Sonnenfeld. 2017. "Water Crises and Institutions: Inventing and Reinventing Governance in an Era of Uncertainty," Society & Natural Resources, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 395-403. [link]
- Sonnenfeld, David A., and Peter Leigh Taylor. 2017. "Scientific Publishing in the 21st Century: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Environmental Social Sciences," Society & Natural Resources, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 1-2. [link]
- Quigley, Dianne, David A. Sonnenfeld, Phil Brown, Linda Silka, Linlang He, and Qing Tian. 2016. "Research Ethics Training on Place-based Communities and Cultural Groups," Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 479-489. [link]
- Montefrio, Marvin Joseph F., David A. Sonnenfeld, and Valerie A. Luzadis. 2015. "Social construction of the environment and smallholder farmers' participation in ‘low-carbon’, agro-industrial crop production contracts in the Philippines," Ecological Economics 116 (August): 70-77. [link]
- Sonnenfeld, David A., and Kristen Denninger Snyder. 2014. "Wildlife Conservation Areas and Protected Areas in China: A Law and Policy Bibliography," Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy 17 (3): 152-163. [link]
- Ma, Ben, Guojun Song, Lei Zhang, and David A. Sonnenfeld. 2014. "Explaining Sectoral Discrepancies between National and Provincial Statistics in China," China Economic Review 30: 353-369. [link]
- Montefrio, Marvin Joseph F., and David A. Sonnenfeld. 2013. "Global-Local Tensions in Contract Farming of Biofuel Crops Involving Indigenous Communities in the Philippines," Society & Natural Resources, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 239-253 [link]
- Lin, Zhen, Fan Dai, and David A. Sonnenfeld. 2012. "Resolving Forest Property Rights Disputes in China: The Bailan Case," Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 227-231 [link]
- Sonnenfeld, David A., and Arthur P.J. Mol. 2011. "Social Theory and the Environment in the New World (dis)Order," Global Environmental Change, Vol. 21, No. 3 (August), pp. 771-774
- Montefrio, Marvin Joseph F., and David A. Sonnenfeld. 2011. "Forests, Food, or Fuel? Competing Coalitions and Biofuels Policymaking in the Philippines," The Journal of Environment and Development, Vol. 20, No. 1 (March), pp. 27-49 [link]
- Sonnenfeld, David A. 2008. "Globalisation and Environmental Governance: Is Another World Possible?" Global Environmental Change, Vol. 18, No. 3 (August), pp. 341-342
- Lockie, Stewart, and David A. Sonnenfeld. 2008. "Communities, Natural Resources, and Environments: African and Asian Perspectives," Local Environment, Vol. 13, No. 5 (July), pp. 385-391
- Zhang, Lei, Arthur P.J. Mol, and David A. Sonnenfeld. 2007. "The Interpretation of Ecological Modernisation in China," Environmental Politics, Vol. 16, No. 4 (August), pp. 659-668 [link]
- Foran, Tira, and David A. Sonnenfeld. 2007. "Corporate Social Responsibility in Thailand's Electronics Industry," Chulalongkorn Social Sciences Journal 38(1-2), pp. 193-224. [in Thai]
- Sonnenfeld, David A. and Arthur P.J. Mol. 2006. "Environmental Reform in Asia: Guest Editors' Note," The Journal of Environment and Development, Vol. 15, No. 2 (June), pp. 107-111
- Sonnenfeld, David A. and Arthur P.J. Mol. 2006. "Environmental Reform in Asia: Comparisons, Challenges, Next Steps," The Journal of Environment and Development, Vol. 15, No. 2 (June), pp. 112-137 [link] [figures]
- Sonnenfeld, David A. 2002. "The Politics of Production and Production of Nature in Silicon Valley's Electronics Industry," International Journal of Business and Society, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 1-24
- Sonnenfeld, David A. and Arthur P.J. Mol. 2002. "Globalization and the Transformation of Environmental Governance," American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 45, No. 9 (May), pp. 1318-1339
- Sonnenfeld, David A. and Arthur P.J. Mol. 2002. "Globalization, Governance, and the Environment," American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 45, No. 9 (May), pp. 1456-1461
- Sonnenfeld, David A. 2002. "Social Movements and Ecological Modernization: the Transformation of Pulp and Paper Manufacturing," Development and Change, Vol. 33, No. 1 (January), pp. 1-27 [link]
- Mol, Arthur P.J. and David A. Sonnenfeld. 2000. "Ecological Modernisation Around the World," Environmental Politics, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring), pp. 3-14
- Sonnenfeld, David A. 2000. "Contradictions of Ecological Modernisation: Pulp and Paper Manufacturing in South-East Asia," Environmental Politics, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring), pp. 235-256
- Sonnenfeld, David A. 1999. "Vikings and Tigers: Finland, Sweden and Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Southeast Asia's Pulp and Paper Industries," Journal of World-Systems Research Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring), pp. 26-47 [link]
- Sonnenfeld, David A. 1998. "Logging v. Recycling: Problems in the Industrial Ecology of Pulp Manufacturing in South-East Asia," Greener Management International, No. 22 (Summer), pp. 108-122
- Sonnenfeld, David A., Thomas Schotzko, and Raymond Jussaume. 1998. "Globalization of Washington's Apple Industry: Its Evolution and Impacts," International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 7, pp. 151-180. [full text]
- Sonnenfeld, David A. 1998. "Social Movements, Environment, and Technology in Indonesia's Pulp and Paper Industry," Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Vol. 39, No. 1 (April), pp. 95-110 [link]
- Sonnenfeld, David A. 1998. "From Brown to Green? Late Industrialization, Social Conflict, and Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Thailand's Pulp and Paper Industry," Organization & Environment, Vol. 11, No. 1 (March), pp. 59-87 [link]
- Sonnenfeld, David A. 1996. "The Ghost of Wesley Vale: Environmentalists' Influence on Innovation in Australia's Pulp and Paper Industry," Competition and Change, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 379-401
Book Chapters
- Na, Hang Ryeol, Jack P. Manno, David A. Sonnenfeld, and Gordon M. Heisler. 2015. "Governance of Forests: Regional Institutions in East Asia." Pp. 303-320 in Routledge Handbook of Environment and Society in Asia, eds. Paul G. Harris and Graeme Lang. London and New York: Routledge.
- Mol, Arthur P.J., Gert Spaargaren, and David A. Sonnenfeld. 2014. "Ecological Modernization Theory: Where Do We Stand?" Pp. 35-66 in Ökologische Modernisierung: Zur Geschichte und Gegenwart eines Konzepts in Umweltpolitik und Sozialwissenschaften, eds. Martin Bemmann, Birgit Metzger, and Roderich von Detten. Frankfurt and New York: Campus Verlag.
- Lockie, Stewart, David A. Sonnenfeld, and Dana R. Fisher. 2014. "Socio-Ecological Transformations and the Social Sciences." Pp. 1-12 in Routledge International Handbook on Social and Environmental Change.
- Mol, Arthur P.J., Gert Spaargaren, and David A. Sonnenfeld. 2014. "Ecological Modernisation Theory: Taking Stock, Moving Forward." Pp. 15-30 in Routledge International Handbook on Social and Environmental Change.
- Sonnenfeld, David A. 2012. "Rule of Law." Pp. 320-323 in China, India, and East and Southeast Asia: Assessing Sustainability, eds. Sam Geall, Jingjing Liu, and Sony Pellissery. The Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Vol. 7. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing.
- Sonnenfeld, David A., and Arthur P.J. Mol. 2010. "Urban and Industrial Environmental Reform in Southeast Asia". Pp. 198-228 in The New Political Economy of Southeast Asia, eds. Rajah Rasiah and Johannes D. Schmidt. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
- Mol, Arthur P.J., Gert Spaargaren, and David A. Sonnenfeld. 2009. "Ecological Modernisation: Three Decades of Policy, Practice and Theoretical Reflection". Pp. 3-14 in The Ecological Modernisation Reader: Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice, eds. Arthur P.J. Mol, David A. Sonnenfeld, and Gert Spaargaren.
- Sonnenfeld, David A., and Michael T. Rock. 2009. "Ecological Modernisation in Asian and Other Emerging Economies". Pp. 359-371 in The Ecological Modernisation Reader: Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice, eds. Arthur P.J. Mol, David A. Sonnenfeld, and Gert Spaargaren.
- Spaargaren, Gert, Arthur P.J. Mol, and David A. Sonnenfeld. 2009. "Ecological Modernisation: Assessment, Critical Debates, and Future Directions."Pp. 501-520 in The Ecological Modernisation Reader: Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice, eds. Arthur P.J. Mol, David A. Sonnenfeld, and Gert Spaargaren.
- Smith, Ted, David A. Sonnenfeld, and David N. Pellow. 2006. "The Quest for Sustainability and Justice in a High-Tech World." Pp. 1-11 in Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry, eds. Ted Smith, David A. Sonnenfeld, and David Naguib Pellow.
- Sonnenfeld, David A. "Global Electronics." 2006. Pp. 13-16 in Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry, eds. Ted Smith, David A. Sonnenfeld, and David Naguib Pellow.
- Foran, Tira, and David A. Sonnenfeld. 2006. "Corporate Social Responsibility in Thailand's Electronics Industry." Pp. 70-82 in Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry, eds. Ted Smith, David A. Sonnenfeld, and David N. Pellow.