Allan Schnaiberg

Professor of Sociology
Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research
Northwestern University
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1968
a-schnaiberg@northwestern.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Downloadable Research Papers

His areas of interest include environmental sociology, economy and society, and family. Schnaiberg's model of the treadmill of production encompassed variations in inequalities and environmental problems across historical periods and across societies. His work is macrostructural, focusing on major economic, political, and social institutions. It is also microstructural, tracing how economic changes have had an impact on family systems. His 2001 book, Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development, involved former IPR fellows on a social and political history of U.S. recycling programs. They traced the programs' transformation from an environmental and social focus to an economic focus. He is currently working with other Northwestern alumni on a monograph on the evolution of his theory on the treadmill, and a new edition of Schnaiberg and Gould's (1994, 2000) Society and Environment: The Enduring Conflict.

Selected Books and Articles

"The Economy and the Environment." Chapter 31 in The Handbook of Economic
Sociology, edited by Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg. (Forthcoming, 2004)

"Interrogating The Treadmill Of Production: Everything You Wanted To Know About
The Treadmill, But Were Afraid To Ask," (with Ken Gould & David Pellow). Organization & Environment. (Forthcoming, 2004)

The Environment: From Surplus to Scarcity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
(pdf version now available at http://media.northwestern.edu/sociology/schnaiberg)

“The Treadmill of Production and the Environmental State.” Reprinted in Craig
Humphrey, Frederick Buttel, & Tammy Lewis (editors), Environment, Energy, and
Society: Exemplary Works. Wadsworth, 2003.

“The Environmental Justice Movement: Equitable Allocation of the Costs and Benefits of Environmental Management Outcomes,” (with D.N. Pellow and A.S. Weinberg). Social Justice Research 14:423-439, 2003.