Environmental Sociology Papers

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Papers by Allan Schnaiberg

August 20, 1939 - June 6, 2009
Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Former IPR Faculty Fellow

The founder of the field of environmental sociology, Allan Schnaiberg published a large and influential body of scholarly work during his tenure at Northwestern. He was affiliated with the Institute for Policy Research since its earliest beginnings as the Center for Urban Affairs, starting in 1969, and continued to be involved with Institute's research and activities as a faculty fellow and associate for nearly four decades. In particular, Schnaiberg is known for his "treadmill of production" framework, in which he describes how industrial interests push for continuous growth leading to adverse environmental and social impacts. The framework was outlined in his seminal book, The Environment: From Surplus to Scarcity (1980).

2004

• The Economy and the Environment
• Interrogating The Treadmill Of Production: Everything You Wanted To Know About The Treadmill, But Were Afraid To Ask

2003

• The Environmental Justice Movement: Equitable Allocation of the Costs and Benefits of Environmental Management Outcomes

2002

• Reflections on My 25 Years Before the Mast of the Environment and Technology Section
• The Treadmill of Production and the Environmental State

2001

• Markets and Politics in Urban Recycling: A Tale of Two Cities
• American Studies: Environment
• Environmental Movements Since Love Canal: Hope, Despair & [Im]mobilization?

2000

• Putting the Ecological Modernization Thesis to the Test: The Promises and Performance of Urban Recycling

1997

• Sustainable Development and the Treadmill of Production
• Paradoxes and Contradictions: A Contextual Framework for 'How I Learned to Suspect Recycling'
• Politicizing the Treadmill of Production: Reshaping Social Outcomes of 'Efficient' Recycling

1996

• Sustainable Development as a Sociologically Defensible Concept: From Foxes and Rovers to Citizens

1995

• Pragmatic Corporate Cultures: Insights From a Recycling Enterprise
• Plastic Policies, Prologue and Parable: Reframing Recycling
• Natural Resource Use in a Transnational Treadmill: International Agreements, National Citizenship Practices, and Sustainable Development

1994

• The Political Economy of Environmental Problems and Policies: Consciousness, Coordination, and Control Capacity

1993

• Inequality Once More, With (Some) Feeling
• Legitimating Impotence: Pyrrhic Victories of the Modern Environmental Movement

1992

• Recycling vs. Remanufacturing: Redistributive Realities
• The Recycling Shell Game: Multinational Economic Organization vs. Local Political Ineffectuality