Forest policy issues led to pursuits in the late 1980s, providing further impetus for forest-industry related research. As an Intercampus Exchange Student at the
University of California, Berkeley in 1991, Sonnenfeld joined a network of scholars studying
Indonesianforestry issues, beginning his foray into the study of social and environmental transformation in Southeast Asia and elsewhere.[6]
In 1993-94, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at the
Australian National University, from where he based his field research on the adoption of environmental technologies in the pulp and paper industries of Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.[6]
Selected publications
Peter Oosterveer; Sonnenfeld, David Allan (2012). Food, Globalization and Sustainability. London and New York: Earthscan/Routledge.
ISBN978-1-84971-260-6.
Arthur P. J. Mol; Sonnenfeld, David Allan; Spaargaren, Gert (2009). The Ecological Modernisation Reader: Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice. New York: Routledge.
ISBN978-0-415-45370-7.
Smith, Ted J.; Sonnenfeld, David Allan; Pellow, David N. (2006). Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
ISBN1-59213-330-4.
Mol, A. P. J.; Sonnenfeld, David Allan (2000). Ecological modernisation around the world: perspectives and critical debates. London: Frank Cass.
ISBN0-7146-8113-X.
Arthur P. J. Mol; Sonnenfeld, David Allan; Spaargaren, Gert (2009). The Ecological Modernisation Reader: Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice. New York: Routledge.
ISBN978-0-415-45370-7.
Sonnenfeld, David A. (1996). Greening the Tiger? Social Movements' Influence on Adoption of Environmental Technologies in the Pulp and Paper Industries of Australia, Indonesia, and Thailand. Santa Cruz: University of California.
References
^Dobson, Andrew. Green political thought. Psychology Press, 2000.
^Sassen, Saskia. Cities in a world economy. Sage Publications, 2011.
^Support for his dissertation research was received from the
Fulbright Program, the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, and the
Switzer Foundation Environmental Program.