William R. Freudenburg

Dehlsen Professor of Environmental Studies	Office:	Bren Hall 4002
	Phone:	(805) 893-8282
	Fax:	(805) 893-8686
	E-mail:	freudenburg@es.ucsb.edu
	Website:	www.es.ucsb.edu/faculty/freudenburg.php
	Mailing Address:	Environmental Studies Program University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4160
	Courses:	ES 1 Introduction to Environmental Studies ES 106 Critical Thinking about Human-Environment Problems and Solutions

Dr. Freudenburg, the 2004-05 President of the Rural Sociological Society, has devoted most of his career to the study of environment-society relationships. He is particularly well-known both for his work on coupled environment-society systems in general and for his work on more specific topics, including resource-dependent communities, the social impacts of environmental and technological change, and risk analysis. He has held official positions with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Sociological Association, and the National Academy of Sciences, among others. He is the winner of Awards from the American Sociological Association, Rural Sociological Society, Pacific Sociological Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as being listed in numerous reference works, including Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in the World. Recent and forthcoming publications have focused on topics ranging from the social impacts of U.S. oil dependence to the polarized nature of debates over spotted owls, with a special emphasis on “disproportionality,” or the tendency for a major fraction of all environmental impacts to be associated with a surprisingly small fraction of the overall economy.

Education:
Ph.D., Yale University

Selected Publications (linked articles are in .pdf format):

Alario, Margarita and Freudenburg, William R. "The Paradoxes of Modernity: Scientific Advances, Environmental Problems, and Risks to the Social Fabric?" Sociological Forum, Vol. 18, No. 2, (June 2003)

Fisher, Dana R. and Freudenburg, William R. "Ecological Modernization and Its Critics: Assessing the Past and Looking Toward the Future." Society and Natural Resources, 14:701–709, 2001

Freudenburg, William R. "Boomtown's Youth: The Differential Impacts of Rapid Community Growth on Adolescents and Adults." American Sociological Review, Vol. 49, No. 5 (Oct., 1984), 697-705.

Freudenburg, William R. "The Density of Acquaintanceship: An Overlooked Variable in Community Research?" The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 92, No. 1 (Jul., 1986), 27-63

Freudenburg, William R. "Perceived Risk, Real Risk: Social Science and the Art of Probabilistic Risk Assessment" Science, New Series, Vol. 242, No. 4875 (Oct. 7, 1988), 44-49

Freudenburg, William R. "Risk and Recreancy: Weber, the Division of Labor, and the Rationality of Risk Perceptions." Social Forces, Vol. 71, No. 4 (June 1993), 909-932.

Freudenburg, William R. "Seeding Science, Courting Conclusions: Reexamining the Intersection of Science, Corporate Cash, and the Law" Sociological Forum, Vol. 20, No. 1, March 2005

Freudenburg, William R., Frickel, Scott, and Gramling, Robert. "Beyond the Nature/Society Divide: Learning to Think about a Mountain." Sociological Forum, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Sep., 1995), 361-392.

Freudenburg, William R. and Gramling, Robert. Oil in Troubled Waters: Perceptions, Politics, and the Battle over Offshore Drilling. Albany: SUNY Press, 1994.

Freudenburg, William R. and Gramling, Robert. "How crude: Advocacy coalitions, offshore oil, and the self-negating belief." Policy Sciences 35: 17-41, 2002

Freudenburg, William R. and Jones, Timothy, R. "Attitudes and Stress in the Presence of Technological Risk: A Test of the Supreme Court Hypothesis." Social Forces, Vol. 69, No. 4 (June 1991), 1143-1168.

Freudenburg, William R. and Gramling, Robert. "Scientific Expertise and Natural Resource Decisions: Social Science Participation on Interdisciplinary Scientific Committees." Social Science Quarterly, Volume 83, Number 1, March 2002.

Freudenburg, William R. and Wilson, Lisa, J. "Mining the Data: Analyzing the Economic Implications of Mining for Nonmetropolitan Regions." Sociological Inquiry, Vol. 72, No. 4, Fall 2002, 549-75.

Freudenburg, William R., Lisa J. Wilson, and Daniel O'Leary. "Forty Years of Spotted Owls? A Longitudinal Analysis of Logging-Industry Job Losses." Sociological Perspectives 41(1): 1-26, 1998.