Frederick H. Buttel
Frederick H. Buttel (1948–2005) was an American sociologist. He was the William H. Sewell Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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[edit] Education and career
Buttel earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, his master's degree in forestry and environmental studies at Yale University and his Ph.D. in sociology at the former institution. Prior to returning to Wisconsin, he served as a faculty member at Michigan State University and Cornell University, where he directed the Biology and Society Program.
He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1987), was president of the Rural Sociological Society from 1990 to 1991, the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society from 1998 to 1999, and the Research Committee on Environment and Society (RC24) of the International Sociological Association.
Buttel was editor of the journal, Research in Rural Sociology and Development [1], and co-editor of Society and Natural Resources. Buttel was a scholar in rural sociology whose research focused on four major areas of study: the sociology of agriculture, environmental sociology, technological change in agriculture, and national and global activism relating to environmental and agricultural policies.[2][3][4]
[edit] Recognition
- After his death, the Research Committee on Environment and Society (RC24) of the International Sociological Association established in his honor the Frederick H. Buttel International Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Environmental Sociology.[5][6]
- Recognizing his contributions to the field, the Section on Environment and Technology of the American Sociological Association also renamed its Distinguished Contributions Award for him.
- The endowed chair he held at the University of Wisconsin was renamed the Buttel-Sewell Professorship.[7]
[edit] Co-authored books
- Rural Sociology of the Advanced Societies (1980)
- Labor and the Environment (1984)
- The Sociology of Agriculture (1990)
- Toward a New Political Economy of Agriculture (1991)
- Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment (2000)
- Environment and Global Modernity (2000)
- Environment, Energy, and Society: A New Synthesis (2001)
- Sociological Theory and Environment (2002)
- New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development, Volume 11 (2005)
- Governing Environmental Flows: Global Challenges to Social Theory (2006)
[edit] See also
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- ^ [dead link] "UW–Madison Rural Sociologist Fred Buttel Dead at 56", College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin, January 19, 2005.
- ^ "Obituary: Frederick H. Buttel". Cornell Chronicle. February 24, 2005.
- ^ "From the editor". Agriculture and Human Values 22 (3): 265. 2005. doi:10.1007/s10460-005-6039-z.. Includes "Remembering Fred Buttel" by Lawrence Busch, Richard Haynes, Jack R. Kloppenberg Jr, Daniel Lee Kleinman, and Laura B. DeLind.
- ^ "Frederick H. Buttel International Award". International Sociological Association.
- ^ (Summer 2005). "Fred Buttel Remembrance" (PDF; requires Adobe Acrobat). Environment, Technology, and Society: Newsletter of the Section on Environment and Technology of the American Sociological Association. p.1.
- ^ "Daniel Kleinman's curriculum vitae".
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