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Lunch with the League
Green Gentrification: Urban Sustainability and the Struggle for Environmental Justice
Thursday, January 12th 12-2pm
Speakers will be Kenneth Gould and Tammy Lewis who co-authored Green Gentrification
Kenneth A. Gould is Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and Professor of Sociology, and Earth and Environmental Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center. He teaches courses in environmental sociology, globalization and sustainability, and environmental justice. Gould’s research examines the responses of communities to environmental problems, environmental social movement coalitions, the role of socioeconomic and racial inequality in environmental conflicts, and the impacts of economic globalization on efforts to achieve ecologically and socially sustainable development trajectories. He is co-author of, Environment and Society: The Enduring Conflict (1994), Local Environmental Struggles: Citizen Activism in the Treadmill of Production (1996), The Treadmill of Production: Injustice and Unsustainability in the Global Economy (2008), and Green Gentrification: Urban Sustainability and the Struggle for Environmental Justice (2017). He is past Chair of the Environment and Technology section of the American Sociological Association.
Tammy L. Lewis is Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York/Brooklyn College and Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center in Sociology and Earth and Environmental Sciences. She is also the Director of Macaulay Honors College at Brooklyn College. Her research examines sustainability and alternatives to development, with a focus on Latin America. She has conducted research in Belize, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Peru, and Ecuador, where she was a Fulbright scholar. She is author of Ecuador’s Environmental Revolutions (2016, MIT Press) and co-author with Kenneth A. Gould of Green Gentrification: Urban Sustainability and the Struggle for Environmental Justice (2017, Routledge). Also with Gould, she is the co-editor of Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology (2015, Oxford University Press). Her work has appeared in Conservation Biology, Social Science Quarterly, Teaching Sociology, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among others. She is the Chair-Elect of the Environment and Technology section of the American Sociological Association.
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