Tammy L Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 4257937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tammy L Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tammy L |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS T L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Muhlenberg College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Why green “climate gentrification” threatens poor and vulnerable populations
Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu MdM-2015-0552
Green Gentrification and Disaster Capitalism in Barbuda: Barbuda has long exemplified an alternative to mainstream tourist development in the Caribbean. After Irma and Maria, that could change
Two weeks after Hurricane Irma ripped through Barbuda on September 6, 2017, Barbudan climate refugees lined the docks in Antigua to board a single small ferry back to their damaged homes. They anxi
Globalizing the treadmill of production: A solutions-oriented application to Ecuador
A foundational theory in environmental sociology, Allan Schnaiberg’s treadmill of production theory (1980), and subsequent elaborations of the treadmill of production theory, is best known and used to explain how societies have created environmental and social disruptions. Less well known and less utilized aspects of the original theory include proposed strategies to slow the treadmill of production, with the goals of decreasing withdrawals and a…
From Green Gentrification to Resilience Gentrification: An Example from Brooklyn
Ten Lessons in Introductory Sociology
Green Gentrification: Urban Sustainability and the Struggle for Environmental Justice
Green Gentrification looks at the social consequences of urban from an environmental justice and sustainable development perspective. Through a comparative examination of five cases of urban greening in Brooklyn, New York, it demonstrates that such initiatives, while positive for the environment, tend to increase inequality and thus undermine the social pillar of sustainable development. Although greening is ostensibly intended to improve environ…
Viewing the Wreckage: Eco-Disaster Tourism in the Wake of Katrina Vues du sinistre: tourisme eco-désastre dans le sillage de Katrina Mirando el naufragio: turismo del desastre ecológico después de Kat…
Viewing the Wreckage: Eco-Disaster Tourism in the Wake of Katrina Vues du sinistre: tourisme eco-désastre dans le sillage de Katrina Mirando el naufragio: turismo del desastre ecológico después de Katrina" published on 01 Jan 2007 by Brill
Sociology and the Environment: An Analysis of Coverage in Introductory Sociology Textbooks
Using content analysis, this research examines the impact of the first 25 years of environmental sociology research on current introductory sociology textbooks. The investigators searched the texts for 40 key concepts in environmental sociology and for the inclusion of works by 20 award-winning environmental sociologists. On average, the texts cited 7 of the 40 key concepts. Eliminating multiple citations to a page, the total number of pages cite…
Blue-Green Coalitions: Constraints and Possibilities in the Post 9-11 Political Environment
Workers and environmentalists in the United States have often found themselves on opposite sides of critical issues. Yet at the WTO meeting in Seattle in November 1999, they came together in a historic protest many see as a watershed in the formation of a new blue-green Seattle Coalition. However the two camps are again in con?ict over substantive issues, and in the changed political climate of post 9-11, the question arises of the coalition s du…
Service Learning for Social Change? Lessons from a Liberal Arts College
This paper explores efforts by Denison University to shift its service-learning efforts from service based on a charity model toward service based on collaboration and community-based social change. The author describes the institution's process of adaptation and a series of service-learning courses that draw upon participatory action research, asset-based community development, and what Denison service-learning faculty call “place-based” service…
Teamsters and Turtles: U.S. Progressive Political Movements in the Twenty-First Century
Environmental Aid: Driven by Recipient Need or Donor Interests
Objective This study investigates the trends in the distribution of environmental aid from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S. foundations, and a multilateral donor, the Global Environmental Fund (GEF), to determine whether aid is driven by donor interests or recipient need. Methods Data from USAID, the Foundation Center, GEF, and other secondary sources are analyzed using logistic and OLS regressions. Results Traditional …
Environmental Aid: Driven by Recipient Need or Donor Interests
Engendering the Environment? Gender in the World Bank's Environmental Policies
Part 1 Theoretical perspectives: theorizing gender - a framework of analysis a gender evaluation of EIA theories women, development and environment - implications for EIA. Part 2 A case study of the World Bank: the rhetoric of gender, gendered rhetoric - EIA in the context of the World Bank's social policies the World Bank's EIA policy the Sardar Sarovar Project - history and politics EIA in practice revisiting gender and EIA
Transnational Conservation Movement Organizations: Shaping The Protected Area Systems of Less Developed Countries
This article compares transnational conservation organizations' efforts in Ecuador, Chile, and Peru in order to answer several questions: Why do transnational social movement organizations (TSMOs) engage in the politics of some nations but not others? Do TSMOs shape the policy decisions of less developed nations? What is the relationship between national political opportunity structure and transnational mobilization? Based upon historical data an…
Media Representations of “Sustainable Development: Sustaining the Status Quo
How is the concept of sustainable development represented in major U.S. newspapers? Are academic and activists' critiques part of the media message? Using a systematic qualitative analysis, the author examines the themes and sources of newspaper articles from 1987 to 1997. Sustainable development is presented almost exclusively within an economic growth paradigm that assumes that economic growth, technology, and northern expertise are the most ef…
Environment, energy, and society
Transnational Conservation Movement Organizations: Shaping The Protected Area Systems of Less Developed Countries
This article compares transnational conservation organizations' efforts in Ecuador, Chile, and Peru in order to answer several questions: Why do transnational social movement organizations (TSMOs) engage in the politics of some nations but not others? Do TSMOs shape the policy decisions of less developed nations? What is the relationship between national political opportunity structure and transnational mobilization? Based upon historical data an…
From Green Gentrification to Resilience Gentrification: An Example from Brooklyn
Blue-Green Coalitions: Constraints and Possibilities in the Post 9-11 Political Environment
Workers and environmentalists in the United States have often found themselves on opposite sides of critical issues. Yet at the WTO meeting in Seattle in November 1999, they came together in a historic protest many see as a watershed in the formation of a new blue-green Seattle Coalition. However the two camps are again in con?ict over substantive issues, and in the changed political climate of post 9-11, the question arises of the coalition s du…
Service Learning for Social Change? Lessons from a Liberal Arts College
This paper explores efforts by Denison University to shift its service-learning efforts from service based on a charity model toward service based on collaboration and community-based social change. The author describes the institution's process of adaptation and a series of service-learning courses that draw upon participatory action research, asset-based community development, and what Denison service-learning faculty call “place-based” service…
Sociology and the Environment: An Analysis of Coverage in Introductory Sociology Textbooks
Using content analysis, this research examines the impact of the first 25 years of environmental sociology research on current introductory sociology textbooks. The investigators searched the texts for 40 key concepts in environmental sociology and for the inclusion of works by 20 award-winning environmental sociologists. On average, the texts cited 7 of the 40 key concepts. Eliminating multiple citations to a page, the total number of pages cite…
Viewing the Wreckage: Eco-Disaster Tourism in the Wake of Katrina Vues du sinistre: tourisme eco-désastre dans le sillage de Katrina Mirando el naufragio: turismo del desastre ecológico después de Kat…
Viewing the Wreckage: Eco-Disaster Tourism in the Wake of Katrina Vues du sinistre: tourisme eco-désastre dans le sillage de Katrina Mirando el naufragio: turismo del desastre ecológico después de Katrina" published on 01 Jan 2007 by Brill
Environmental Aid: Driven by Recipient Need or Donor Interests
Objective This study investigates the trends in the distribution of environmental aid from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S. foundations, and a multilateral donor, the Global Environmental Fund (GEF), to determine whether aid is driven by donor interests or recipient need. Methods Data from USAID, the Foundation Center, GEF, and other secondary sources are analyzed using logistic and OLS regressions. Results Traditional …
Media Representations of “Sustainable Development: Sustaining the Status Quo
How is the concept of sustainable development represented in major U.S. newspapers? Are academic and activists' critiques part of the media message? Using a systematic qualitative analysis, the author examines the themes and sources of newspaper articles from 1987 to 1997. Sustainable development is presented almost exclusively within an economic growth paradigm that assumes that economic growth, technology, and northern expertise are the most ef…
Globalizing the treadmill of production: A solutions-oriented application to Ecuador
A foundational theory in environmental sociology, Allan Schnaiberg’s treadmill of production theory (1980), and subsequent elaborations of the treadmill of production theory, is best known and used to explain how societies have created environmental and social disruptions. Less well known and less utilized aspects of the original theory include proposed strategies to slow the treadmill of production, with the goals of decreasing withdrawals and a…
Environment, energy, and society
Transnational Conservation Movement Organizations: Shaping The Protected Area Systems of Less Developed Countries
This article compares transnational conservation organizations' efforts in Ecuador, Chile, and Peru in order to answer several questions: Why do transnational social movement organizations (TSMOs) engage in the politics of some nations but not others? Do TSMOs shape the policy decisions of less developed nations? What is the relationship between national political opportunity structure and transnational mobilization? Based upon historical data an…
Media Representations of “Sustainable Development: Sustaining the Status Quo
How is the concept of sustainable development represented in major U.S. newspapers? Are academic and activists' critiques part of the media message? Using a systematic qualitative analysis, the author examines the themes and sources of newspaper articles from 1987 to 1997. Sustainable development is presented almost exclusively within an economic growth paradigm that assumes that economic growth, technology, and northern expertise are the most ef…
Engendering the Environment? Gender in the World Bank's Environmental Policies
Part 1 Theoretical perspectives: theorizing gender - a framework of analysis a gender evaluation of EIA theories women, development and environment - implications for EIA. Part 2 A case study of the World Bank: the rhetoric of gender, gendered rhetoric - EIA in the context of the World Bank's social policies the World Bank's EIA policy the Sardar Sarovar Project - history and politics EIA in practice revisiting gender and EIA
Environmental Aid: Driven by Recipient Need or Donor Interests
Objective This study investigates the trends in the distribution of environmental aid from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S. foundations, and a multilateral donor, the Global Environmental Fund (GEF), to determine whether aid is driven by donor interests or recipient need. Methods Data from USAID, the Foundation Center, GEF, and other secondary sources are analyzed using logistic and OLS regressions. Results Traditional …
Environmental Aid: Driven by Recipient Need or Donor Interests
Blue-Green Coalitions: Constraints and Possibilities in the Post 9-11 Political Environment
Workers and environmentalists in the United States have often found themselves on opposite sides of critical issues. Yet at the WTO meeting in Seattle in November 1999, they came together in a historic protest many see as a watershed in the formation of a new blue-green Seattle Coalition. However the two camps are again in con?ict over substantive issues, and in the changed political climate of post 9-11, the question arises of the coalition s du…
Service Learning for Social Change? Lessons from a Liberal Arts College
This paper explores efforts by Denison University to shift its service-learning efforts from service based on a charity model toward service based on collaboration and community-based social change. The author describes the institution's process of adaptation and a series of service-learning courses that draw upon participatory action research, asset-based community development, and what Denison service-learning faculty call “place-based” service…
Teamsters and Turtles: U.S. Progressive Political Movements in the Twenty-First Century
Sociology and the Environment: An Analysis of Coverage in Introductory Sociology Textbooks
Using content analysis, this research examines the impact of the first 25 years of environmental sociology research on current introductory sociology textbooks. The investigators searched the texts for 40 key concepts in environmental sociology and for the inclusion of works by 20 award-winning environmental sociologists. On average, the texts cited 7 of the 40 key concepts. Eliminating multiple citations to a page, the total number of pages cite…
Viewing the Wreckage: Eco-Disaster Tourism in the Wake of Katrina Vues du sinistre: tourisme eco-désastre dans le sillage de Katrina Mirando el naufragio: turismo del desastre ecológico después de Kat…
Viewing the Wreckage: Eco-Disaster Tourism in the Wake of Katrina Vues du sinistre: tourisme eco-désastre dans le sillage de Katrina Mirando el naufragio: turismo del desastre ecológico después de Katrina" published on 01 Jan 2007 by Brill
Green Gentrification: Urban Sustainability and the Struggle for Environmental Justice
Green Gentrification looks at the social consequences of urban from an environmental justice and sustainable development perspective. Through a comparative examination of five cases of urban greening in Brooklyn, New York, it demonstrates that such initiatives, while positive for the environment, tend to increase inequality and thus undermine the social pillar of sustainable development. Although greening is ostensibly intended to improve environ…
Ten Lessons in Introductory Sociology
Green Gentrification and Disaster Capitalism in Barbuda: Barbuda has long exemplified an alternative to mainstream tourist development in the Caribbean. After Irma and Maria, that could change
Two weeks after Hurricane Irma ripped through Barbuda on September 6, 2017, Barbudan climate refugees lined the docks in Antigua to board a single small ferry back to their damaged homes. They anxi
Globalizing the treadmill of production: A solutions-oriented application to Ecuador
A foundational theory in environmental sociology, Allan Schnaiberg’s treadmill of production theory (1980), and subsequent elaborations of the treadmill of production theory, is best known and used to explain how societies have created environmental and social disruptions. Less well known and less utilized aspects of the original theory include proposed strategies to slow the treadmill of production, with the goals of decreasing withdrawals and a…
From Green Gentrification to Resilience Gentrification: An Example from Brooklyn
Why green “climate gentrification” threatens poor and vulnerable populations
Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu MdM-2015-0552
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (4 works) · Gentrification (4 works) · Geography (4 works)