@article{clark_smolski_allen_hedlund_sanchez_2022, title={Capitalism and Sustainability: An Exploratory Content Analysis of Frameworks in Environmental Political Economy}, volume={9}, ISSN={["2329-4973"]}, DOI={10.1177/23294965211043548}, abstractNote={ A critical divide within environmental sociology concerns the relationship between capitalism and the environment. Risk society and ecological modernization scholars advance a concept of reflexive political economy, arguing that capitalism will transition from a dirty, industrial stage to a green, eco-friendly stage. In contrast, critical political economy scholars suggest that the core imperatives of capitalist accumulation are fundamentally unsustainable. We conduct a content analysis of 136 journal articles to assess how these frameworks have been implemented in empirical studies. Our analysis provides important commentary about the mechanisms, agents, magnitude, scale, temporality, and outcomes these frameworks analyze and employ, and the development of a hybrid perspective that borrows from both these perspectives. In addition, we reflect on how and why reflexive political economy has not answered key challenges leveled in the early 21st century, mainly the disconnect between greening values and the ongoing coupling of economic growth and environmental destruction. We also reflect on the significance of critical political economy, as the only framework we study that provides analysis of the roots of ecological crisis. Finally, we comment on the emergent hybrid perspective as a framework that attempts to reconcile new socioecological configurations in an era of increasing environmental instability. }, number={2}, journal={SOCIAL CURRENTS}, author={Clark, Timothy P. and Smolski, Andrew R. and Allen, Jason S. and Hedlund, John and Sanchez, Heather}, year={2022}, month={Apr}, pages={159–179} }
 @article{hedlund_longo_clark_2022, title={THE ROLE OF DISTINCTION IN DIALECTICAL ANALYSES OF SOCIOECOLOGY}, volume={13}, ISSN={["2042-8928"]}, DOI={10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.13.4.0449}, abstractNote={The concept of metabolism, as applied to the interrelations between human society and the rest of nature, has been one of the most fruitful iterations of socioecological thought over the last few decades. Here we will examine specific orientations of metabolic thought commonly employed in the social sciences, and their depiction of metabolism as it relates to the “society–nature” problematic and elaborate on the role of the dialectical method when analyzing socioecological processes and distinctions between society and the rest of nature. We will review two overarching uses of metabolism: the theory of metabolic rift and a hybridist metabolic approach to socio-nature. While the former regards society as an emergent property of nature, the latter regards distinctions between the two as undialectical and dualist. First, we review each of these approaches and how they differ in their application of the dialectical method. Then we explore some of the analytic implications of these differing approaches. We contend that a dialectical method that allows for, and encourages, analytical distinction is essential, and that the metabolic rift theory provides an important potential for advancing socioecological analysis in an era of anthropogenic environmental change through its use of analytical distinction between social and environmental phenomena.}, number={4}, journal={WORLD REVIEW OF POLITICAL ECONOMY}, author={Hedlund, John and Longo, Stefano B. and Clark, Timothy P.}, year={2022}, pages={449–475} }
 @article{hedlund_longo_york_2020, title={Agriculture, Pesticide Use, and Economic Development: A Global Examination (1990-2014)}, volume={85}, ISSN={["1549-0831"]}, DOI={10.1111/ruso.12303}, abstractNote={Abstract}, number={2}, journal={RURAL SOCIOLOGY}, author={Hedlund, John and Longo, Stefano B. and York, Richard}, year={2020}, month={Jun}, pages={519–544} }