William Freudenburg
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- Bachelors Sociology University of California, Santa Cruz
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Robert Freudenburg, was an environmental sociologist and social theorist, best known for his work in rural sociology on the topics of risk perception, social disruption, and the causes of environmental degradation. Born in Madison, Nebraska, raised in West Point, Nebraska, he was educated at the University of Nebraska and Yale University. Freudenburg was a professor of sociology at a number of universities; his ultimate position was as Dehlsen Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He died at his home in Santa Barbara, of cholangiocarcinoma .
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Published Works
- Risk and Recreancy: Weber, the Division of Labor, and the Rationality of Risk Perceptions (1993) (456)
- The Density of Acquaintanceship: An Overlooked Variable in Community Research? (1986) (423)
- History repeats itself, but how? City character, urban tradition, and the accomplishment of place (2000) (362)
- Perceived risk, real risk: social science and the art of probabilistic risk assessment. (1988) (340)
- Addictive Economies: Extractive Industries and Vulnerable Localities in a Changing World Economy (2010) (301)
- From LTER to LTSER: Conceptualizing the Socioeconomic Dimension of Long-term Socioecological Research (2006) (255)
- Contamination, Corrosion and the Social Order: An Overview (1997) (235)
- Ecological Modernization and Its Critics: Assessing the Past and Looking Toward the Future (2001) (227)
- Beyond the nature/society divide: Learning to think about a mountain (1995) (204)
- NIMBYs and LULUs: Stalking the Syndromes (1992) (196)
- Social Impact Assessment (2019) (182)
- Privileged Access, Privileged Accounts: Toward a Socially Structured Theory of Resources and Discourses (2005) (176)
- Attitudes and Stress in the Presence of Technological Risk: A Test of the Supreme Court Hypothesis (1991) (161)
- Public Responses to Technological Risks: Toward a Sociological Perspective (1992) (150)
- BOOMTOWN'S YOUTH: THE DIFFERENTIAL IMPACTS OF RAPID COMMUNITY GROWTH ON ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS* (1984) (137)
- Rural‐Urban Differences in Environmental Concern: A Closer Look* (1991) (135)
- Scientific Certainty Argumentation Methods (SCAMs): Science and the Politics of Doubt* (2008) (128)
- MEDIA COVERAGE OF HAZARD EVENTS : ANALYZING THE ASSUMPTIONS (1995) (120)
- Principles and guidelines for social impact assessment in the USA : The Interorganizational Committee on Principles and Guidelines for Social Impact Assessment (2003) (115)
- Natural resources and rural poverty: A closer look (1994) (112)
- Community Impacts of Technological Change: Toward a Longitudinal Perspective (1992) (110)
- Global warming estimates, media expectations, and the asymmetry of scientific challenge (2010) (105)
- Changing Public Policy: The Impact of Public Opinion, Antiwar Demonstrations, and War Costs on Senate Voting on Vietnam War Motions (1978) (99)
- Blowout in the Gulf: The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America (2010) (99)
- Mining the Data: Analyzing the Economic Implications of Mining for Nonmetropolitan Regions (2002) (98)
- Opportunity-Threat, Development, and Adaptation: Toward a Comprehensive Framework for Social Impact Assessment1 (2010) (98)
- Oil in Troubled Waters: Perceptions, Politics, and the Battle Over Offshore Drilling (1994) (89)
- Forty Years of Spotted Owls? A Longitudinal Analysis of Logging Industry Job Losses (1998) (89)
- Organizing Hazards, Engineering Disasters?: Improving the Recognition of Political-Economic Factors in the Creation of Disasters (2008) (87)
- Criminal Behavior and Rapid Community Growth: Examining the Evidence1 (2010) (83)
- Nuclear Families and Nuclear Risks: The Effects of Gender, Geography, and Progeny on Attitudes toward a Nuclear Waste Facility. (2007) (79)
- Risky Thinking: Irrational Fears about Risk and Society (1996) (76)
- Environmental Degradation, Disproportionality, and the Double Diversion: Reaching Out, Reaching Ahead, and Reaching Beyond (2006) (75)
- Postindustrialization and Environmental Quality: An Emprical Analysis of the Environmental State (2004) (72)
- Weapons of mass distraction: Magicianship, misdirection, and the dark side of legitimation (2007) (71)
- The risks of "Putting the numbers in context": a cautionary tale. (1994) (70)
- RESEARCH IN SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND PUBLIC POLICY (1999) (69)
- The ‘Risk Society’ Reconsidered: Recreancy, the Division of Labor, and Risks to the Social Fabric (2000) (69)
- Nothing Recedes Like Success - Risk Analysis and the Organizational Amplification of Risks (1992) (64)
- Linked to what? Economic linkages in an extractive economy (1998) (63)
- Socioenvironmental factors and development policy: Understanding opposition and support for offshore oil (1993) (59)
- Social Constructions and Social Constrictions: Toward Analyzing the Social Construction of ‘the Naturalized’ as Well as ‘the Natural’ (2000) (55)
- Mental health consequences of rapid community growth: a report from the longitudinal study of boomtown mental health impacts. (1982) (48)
- Bureaucratic Slippage and Failures of Agency Vigilance: The Case of the Environmental Studies Program* (1994) (48)
- The Paradoxes of Modernity: Scientific Advances, Environmental Problems, and Risks to the Social Fabric? (2003) (45)
- Applying Sociology to Policy: Social Science and the Environmental Impact Statement. (1985) (42)
- Nuclear Waste: Knowledge Waste? (2010) (42)
- The Social Amplification of Risk: Institutional failure and the organizational amplification of risks: the need for a closer look (2003) (42)
- Public Reactions to Nuclear Power: Are There Critical Masses? (1986) (40)
- Can we learn from failure? Examining US experiences with nuclear repository siting (2004) (38)
- Reexamining Climate Change Debates (2013) (37)
- Digging Deeper: Mining‐Dependent Regions in Historical Perspective1 (2010) (37)
- A Closer Look at “Local Control”: Communities, Commodities, and the Collapse of the Coast1 (2010) (37)
- Disproportionality and Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet (2009) (36)
- Mining the Past: Historical Context and the Changing Implications of Natural Resource Extraction (1996) (36)
- Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow (2012) (35)
- [Local Social Disruption and Western Energy Development: A Critical Review]: Commentary (1982) (33)
- The Exxon Valdez oil spill in the context of US petroleum politics (1992) (31)
- Attitudes toward offshore oil development: A summary of current evidence (2006) (31)
- The Emergence of Environmental Sociology: Contributions of Riley E. Dunlap and William R. Catton, Jr. (1989) (31)
- Crude, Coppertone®, and the coast: Developmental channelization and constraint of alternative development opportunities (1996) (29)
- Risky thinking: facts, values and blind spots in societal decisions about risks (2001) (28)
- Oil in Troubled Waters: Perceptions, Politics, and the Battle over Offshore Drilling. (1995) (27)
- A `Good Business Climate' as Bad Economic News? (1990) (26)
- Environmental sociology: Toward a paradigm for the 21st century (1996) (24)
- Public Interest and Political Abuse: Public Participation in Social Impact Assessment (1983) (24)
- Seeding Science, Courting Conclusions: Reexamining the Intersection of Science, Corporate Cash, and the Law (2005) (23)
- Equity and the Environment (2007) (21)
- How crude: Advocacy coalitions, offshore oil, and the self-negating belief (2002) (21)
- Scientific Expertise and Natural Resource Decisions: Social Science Participation on Interdisciplinary Scientific Committees (2002) (20)
- The End of an Error (2009) (19)
- Tools for Understanding the Socioeconomic and Political Settings for Environmental Decision Making (1999) (19)
- Blowout in the Gulf (2010) (19)
- Environmental risks and environmental justice, or how titanic risks are not so titanic after all. (2010) (19)
- Succession and success: A new look at an old concept (1985) (17)
- Diversity and diversion: Higher superstition and the dangers of insularity in science and technology studies (1998) (16)
- Ending the Vietnam War: Components of Change in Senate Voting on Vietnam War Bills (1977) (16)
- Nuclear Reactions: Public Attitudes and Policies Toward Nuclear Power (1985) (16)
- Social Scientists' Contributions to Environmental Management (1989) (16)
- Legal requirements for social impact assessment: Assessing the social science fallout from Three Mile Island (1989) (16)
- Thirty Years of Scholarship and Science on Environment— Society Relationships (2008) (15)
- Navel Warfare? The Best of Minds, the Worst of Minds, and the Dangers of Misplaced Concreteness (2002) (14)
- Crossing the next divide: A response to Andy Pickering (1996) (14)
- Risk, responsibility and recreancy (2001) (12)
- The Historical Development of Public Reactions to Nuclear Power: Implications for Nuclear Waste Policy (2012) (12)
- SOCIOLOGY IN LEGIS-LAND: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC REPORT ON CONGRESSIONAL CULTURE* (1986) (12)
- What Ecologists Can Learn from Nuclear Scientists (1999) (11)
- Atoms for Peace, Atoms for War: Probing the Paradoxes of Modernity* (2007) (11)
- Obsolete and Irreversible: Technology, Local Economic Development, and the Environment (2011) (11)
- Disasters and Mental Health: An Annotated Bibliography. (1986) (11)
- The Growth Machine and the Everglades: Expanding a Useful Theoretical Perspective (2013) (10)
- Spotting the Myths about Spotted Owls Claims of Causality, Burdens of Proof, and the “Cause” of Rain in Seattle (1999) (9)
- Rhetoric, reform, and risk (1993) (9)
- A Century of Macondo (2012) (8)
- RURAL-I MBAN DIFFERENCES IN ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN: (2007) (7)
- Sociology's Rediscovery of the Environment: Setting the Stage (2009) (7)
- Evidence and Assertions in Assessing Human Factors (2011) (6)
- Paradoxes of Western Energy Development (1984) (6)
- Rethinking the Threats to Scientific Balance in Contexts of Litigation and Regulation (2007) (6)
- Equity and the environment: a pressing need and a new step forward (2007) (6)
- Data Happen, But How? (2002) (5)
- 1995 MSSA plenary address: The crude and the refined: Sociology, obscurity, language, and oil (1997) (5)
- Santa Barbara County: Two paths, final report (1996) (5)
- The Impacts of Rapid Growth on the Social and Personal Well-Being of Local Community Residents (2019) (5)
- Public Reaction to Offshore Oil (2004) (4)
- PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT AND COMMUNICATION IN THE LONG-TERM MANAGEMENT OF U.S. NUCLEAR WASTE SITES (2004) (3)
- Risk Communication, Recreancy, and Organizational Effectiveness (1993) (3)
- Humans in the Landscape: An Introduction to Environmental Studies (2012) (3)
- Nuclear Waste: Progress with Public Engagement—Response (2010) (3)
- Ventura county: Oil, fruit, commune, and commute. Final report (1996) (3)
- San Luis Obispo County: A major switching. Final report (1996) (2)
- PROBABILISTIC RISK ASSESSMENT AND SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT: THE NEED FOR CROSS-FERTILIZATION (1984) (2)
- Recreancy and nanotechnology: A call for empirical research (2012) (2)
- The public interest and technology assessment: Two dozen eternal truths about people and technology revisited (1984) (2)
- San Luis Obispo County: A Major Switching. (Report to the US Dept of Interior) (1996) (1)
- Robbing Nature’s Bank: Preface (2013) (1)
- Research in social problems and public policy : a research annual (1979) (1)
- Oil development and the accomplishment of place. Authors' reply (2002) (1)
- The Axe in the Attic (2009) (1)
- The social sciences and the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM): Toward the building of improved, two-way bridges (2008) (1)
- Obsolete on Delivery: Economic Development and the New Orleans Canals. (2007) (1)
- Risk, Sociological Study of (2001) (1)
- The socio-environmental impacts of energy development on local user groups and water resources planning (1981) (1)
- Perceived Risk, Real Risk: Scientific Inquiry and Public Concerns About Nuclear Waste Disposal (1991) (1)
- Deviant Behavior and Rapid Community Growth: Examining the Evidence. (1987) (1)
- Assessing the Social Impacts of Rural Resource Developments: An Overview (2019) (1)
- Risky Business: Genetic Testing and Exclusionary Practices in the Hazardous Workplace.Elaine Draper (1993) (0)
- Jobs, Affluence, Capitalism and the Commons: Testing the Assumed Proportionality Between Environmental Harm and Economic Performance (2010) (0)
- The Collapse of Engineered Systems (2009) (0)
- Our Town: Newcomers to Old Towns: Suburbanization of the Heartland by Sonya Salamon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003, 264 Pages (2004) (0)
- The First Days of Katrina (2009) (0)
- Oil, Fruit, Commune and Commute. (Report to the US Dept of Interior) (1996) (0)
- Research in Social Problems and Public Policy Vol. 5. (1995) (0)
- An Overview of the Social Science Research (2019) (0)
- The Promise and Peril of Public Participation in Social Impact Assessment (2019) (0)
- Development, Inequality, and Environmental Quality: An Analysis of Competing Hypotheses Using Local Areas in the United States (2014) (0)
- Commuty Ipacts of Technological Change: Toward a Logtu al Perspective* (2016) (0)
- Temporal Myopia: A Case of Promising New Technologies, the Federal Government, and Inherent Conflicts of Interest (2013) (0)
- Slicing Through the Swamps (2009) (0)
- Can Scientific Bias Be Collective? The Asymmetry of Scientific Challenge in Global Warming Research (2009) (0)
- Scientific Certainty Argumentation Methods (SCAMs)? Reexamining Climate Change Debates: Scientific Disagreement or (2014) (0)
- The Growth Machine Comes to New Orleans (2009) (0)
- A Mighty Storm Hits the Shore (2009) (0)
- Environmental Sociology as More Than Public Sociology (2008) (0)
- Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, Vol. 6 (1999) (0)
- A “Helpful Explosion” (2009) (0)
- Expanding Offshore Energy Production: Policy Considerations (2009) (0)
- Critical for Economic Survival (2009) (0)
- Santa Barbara County: Two Roads. (Report to the US Dept of Interior (MMS 96-0036)) (1996) (0)
- Social impacts of hazardous and nuclear facilities and events: Implications for Nevada and the Yucca Mountain high-level nuclear waste repository; [Final report] (1992) (0)
- Strange Chemistry: Environmental Risk Conflicts in a World of Science, Values, and Blind Spots (2019) (0)
- The Loss of Natural Defenses (2009) (0)
- Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, Vol. 7 (2001) (0)
- Testing the Hypothesis of Disproportionality in Environmental Damage (2006) (0)
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