World-systems analysis has developed rapidly over the past thirty years. Today's students
and junior scholars come to world-systems analysis as a well-established approach …

There have been a few cross-national studies published that examine the determinants of
threatened mammal species. However, these studies neglect insights from both ecologically …

The authors assess the extent to which national-level integration in the world polity
influences individual-level concern for the environment. While theoretically-derived …

Understanding which aspects of forest governance have the potential to effectively reduce
deforestation is central to reversing trends in global deforestation. There is a multitude of …

The authors assess the extent to which particular characteristics of economic globalization at
the national level influence the likelihood of individuals expressing concern for the natural …

This paper is a replication and extension of Buitenzorgy and Mol (2011). We recreate the
data and analyses from that paper on the impact of democracy on deforestation from 1990 …

Bridging multiple areas of sociology, the author tests hypotheses derived from foreign
investment dependence theory, ecologically unequal exchange theory and world society …

Firms and governments are increasingly turning to voluntary programs such as eco-
certification and eco-labeling as core instruments for managing forests. To probe the …

For years, sociologists who study society and the environment have focused on resolving
the debate regarding the relationship between economic development and environmental …

The theory of ecologically unequal exchange suggests that rich nations are able to
externalize their resource demands and environmental degradation onto the poor nations of …