2010
DOI: 10.1177/1086026610382621
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Urbanization and the Natural Environment: An Environmental Sociological Review and Synthesis

Abstract: The relationship between urbanization and the natural environment has never been the focus of an environmental sociological study. This article is an initial attempt to address that gap. First, in the introduction, the author discusses how early traditional urban sociologists and human ecologists variably expressed the human exemptionalism paradigm when examining urbanization. Then, in the body of the article, the author provides an overview of the struggle in environmental sociology to find connections betwee… Show more

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“…The dominant explanation for this scalar disjuncture is that urbanization at the local level requires substantial and ongoing inputs of energy and material from other places, which tends to occur through highly inefficient, politically unequal, and environmentally destructive means (Clement, ; Foster, ; Rees and Wackernagel, ; York, Rosa, and Dietz, ). In these ways, locally efficient cities come to drive materially inefficient societies that degrade the global environment.…”
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“…The dominant explanation for this scalar disjuncture is that urbanization at the local level requires substantial and ongoing inputs of energy and material from other places, which tends to occur through highly inefficient, politically unequal, and environmentally destructive means (Clement, ; Foster, ; Rees and Wackernagel, ; York, Rosa, and Dietz, ). In these ways, locally efficient cities come to drive materially inefficient societies that degrade the global environment.…”
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“…In turn, a search of published work in the WorldCat.org Database related to the term globalization and literature reviews noted 634 citations with 634 peer-reviewed citations. A brief examination of this surveyed literature identified a wide range of specific issues, including topics such as globalization and governance (Martinelli & Midttun, 2010), labor in developing regions (Stallings, 2010), urbanization and the natural environment (Clement, 2010), education and literacy (J. Brooks & Normore, 2010), finance and investment (Schularick & Steger, 2010), and politics and media reform (Waisbord, 2010), among many others.…”
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“…The built and transformed environment can affect ecosystems and their services, as well as human health and people's well-being [9]. Urban areas, while offering attractions and benefits to residents, such as facilities and access to services, can negatively affect life quality, especially in relation to an overload on natural resources and infrastructure in the region and are also responsible for degrading the environment [10][11][12][13].…”
Section: Urbanisation and Socioenvironmental Changesmentioning
confidence: 99%