Kenneth A. Gould

Kenneth A. Gould

"Gould is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Brooklyn College, and Professor of Sociology, and Earth and Environmental Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center. His work focuses on the political economy of environment, technology, and development, and is best known for its contribution to the development of the Treadmill of Production model of socio-environmental dynamics. He has published numerous articles examining the responses of communities to environmental problems, the role of socioeconomic inequality in environmental conflicts, and the impacts of economic globalization on efforts to achieve sustainable development trajectories. He is co-author of Environment and Society: The Enduring Conflict (1994), Local Environmental Struggles (1996), The Treadmill of Production: Injustice and Unsustainability in the Global Economy (2008), and Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology (2009). His recent work examines ecotourism, labor environmentalism, ecodisaster, and green gentrification."

Recent Books and Publications

 * "Sustainable Development" in 20 Lessons in Environmental Sociology. Kenneth A. Gould and Tammy L. Lewis, editors. Oxford University Press. With Tammy L. Lewis. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2009
 * "Technological Change and the Environment" in 20 Lessons in Environmental Sociology. Kenneth A. Gould and Tammy L. Lewis, editors. Oxford University Press. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2009
 * "The USA PATRIOT Act and the Future of U.S. Social Movements" in Anti-Terrorism: Security and Insecuirty After 9/11. Sandra Rollings-Magnusson, editor. McGill-Queens University Press. 2009. With Patrice LeClerc. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2009
 * Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology. Edited with Tammy L. Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2008. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2009
 * The Treadmill of Production: Injustice and Unsustainability in the Global Economy. With David Naguib Pellow and Allan Schnaiberg. Paradigm Publishers. (Books and Publications: Book) 2008