Urbanization and the Natural Environment: An Environmental Sociological Review and Synthesis

Clement, Matthew Thomas

doi:10.1177/1086026610382621

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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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Urbanization and Carbon Emissions: A Nationwide Study of Local Countervailing Effects in the United States

Elliott¹,

Clement²

2014

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective. This study advances a theoretical framework for examining the impact of urbanization on local carbon emissions over space and time. It conceptualizes urbanization at the local level as a set of three distinct but related subprocesses of population concentration, land-use intensification, and systemic interaction, which join together to exert countervailing effects on local carbon emissions. Methods. To test this framework we conduct cross-sectional and panel regression analyses of carbon emissions at the county level across the continental United States, controlling for spatial autocorrelation. Results. Findings strongly support our framework and show how different dimensions of urbanization push against one another at the local level to influence carbon emissions in ways that exert far more consistent effects than household density and alternative transit use. Conclusion. These findings illuminate the complexities of urbanization as a local force of environmental transformation with increasingly global consequences.To date, most research on social drivers of carbon emissions has focused on national rather than local dynamics of urbanization. This literature shows repeatedly that more urbanized societies emit more greenhouse gases than less urbanized societies regardless of how we measure these emissions-total, per capita, or per economic unit (Clark and York, 2005;Fisher and Freudenburg, 2004;York, Rosa, and Dietz, 2003). Moreover, recent studies affirm that this pattern has persisted for at least the past half century (Jorgenson and Clark, 2012). Yet, at the same time, a growing body of literature now argues that urbanization holds the key to global sustainability because, as an eco-social process, it is highly efficient at the local level, lowering environmental costs of infrastructure, facilitating alternative transit use, and stimulating environmental awareness-all in ways that help reduce the carbon intensity of social

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Urbanization and Carbon Emissions: A Nationwide Study of Local Countervailing Effects in the United States

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Clement²

2014

Social Science Quarterly

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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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Globalization and Landscape Architecture

Hewitt

2014

Sage Open

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ArticleInterest in globalization over the last several decades has prompted extensive related research and publication in the fields of, economics, political science, sociology, public health, geography, anthropology, education, and within the design and planning professions. With the increasing research and publication during this period, more detailed definitions of globalization have emerged, often according to political and social perspective, organizational mission, and disciplinary context. Globalization, as a research topic, has also prompted considerable anecdotal discourse within the discipline of landscape architecture, including the development of an emerging body of critical thought concerning globalization relevant to landscape architecture practice, education, and research. For example, Thayer (2008) speaks of a petrochemically and technologically dominated landscape increasingly separated by vanishing resources at a local level and interconnected through culture at a global level. Ndubisi (2008) proposes planning and design theory derived from ideas of sustainable regionalism, theories of natural regionalism, and of critical regionalism in response to metropolitan growth and globalization. Bowring, Donald, and Liu, in turn, have described the influence of hegemonic global visual realms, the global export of cultural identity, and the loss of cultural consistency in landscape architecture . Despite the interest and anecdotal reference, however, no work to date has either identified or situated contemporary discourse concerning globalization and landscape architecture within the larger body of literature on globalization. Accordingly, this article offers a review of contemporary literature, identifying and describing the principal areas of discourse related to globalization in general, and its intersection with contemporary discourse in landscape architecture. MethodBecause globalization has been a topic of discussion for more than three decades; because its related discourses have become extensive in scope, bridging disciplinary boundaries and geographic contexts; and because so little work has been devoted to comprehensive reviews of the topic, this review incorporates methods consistent with what Fiss and Hirsch (2005) describe as a framing process for conceptual organization. As such, the review traces the emergence of globalization as discourse, samples its various emerging meanings, and proposes methods to identify and contextualize the specific literature related to globalization and landscape architecture. AbstractThe literature review examines globalization and landscape architecture as discourse, samples its various meanings, and proposes methods to identify and contextualize its specific literature. Methodologically, the review surveys published articles and books by leading authors and within the WorldCat.org Database associated with landscape architecture and globalization, analyzing survey results for comprehensive conceptual and co-relational frameworks. Three "higher order" dimensions...

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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].…”

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Megaprojects - Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics in D. Pedro I-Tamoios Road Axis, São Paulo, Brazil

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Hoefel²

2019

AIR

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Aims: Megaprojects development has generated changes in the socioeconomic and environmental structure of several regions. This paper aims to analyse socioenvironmental changes in 10 municipalities located along the D. Pedro I - Tamoios road axis, São Paulo state, Brazil, chosen for their regional relevance, and transformations caused by the roads duplication. Study Design: Analysis on how megaprojects influence the urban structure, the environment and different social groups, focusing in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), in different productive sectors (agricultural, services and industrial), in population growth and rural and urban scenarios. Place and Duration of Study: The study was realized in São Paulo State, Brazil, during 36 months, starting in July 2015 until July 2018, and the data used and analyzed to diverse indicators were from 1950 to 2014. Methodology: Sociodemographic data, the expansion of industry, services, tourism development and agricultural production of these municipalities were collected in government databases and through field surveys. They were analysed through integrated methodologies with qualitative and quantitative approaches, based on temporal variations for the studied municipalities and for the average of São Paulo State, Brazil, with focus on social and environmental changes that took place in this study area. Results: The results indicate that an intense process of industrialisation, tourism development, urban growth and population dynamics has accompanied the recent decade’s expansion of major roads in São Paulo State, Brazil, and that these processes contribute to changes that affect natural systems and may accelerate climate changes. Conclusion: It verified that this megaproject development had not considered the sustainability of regional natural resources, in a manner that promotes environmental and living quality to the population.

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Urbanization and the Natural Environment: An Environmental Sociological Review and Synthesis

Cited by 47 publications

References 113 publications

Urbanization and Carbon Emissions: A Nationwide Study of Local Countervailing Effects in the United States

Urbanization and Carbon Emissions: A Nationwide Study of Local Countervailing Effects in the United States

Globalization and Landscape Architecture

Megaprojects - Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics in D. Pedro I-Tamoios Road Axis, São Paulo, Brazil

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