Climate activism and its effects

DR Fisher, S Nasrin - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As activism including climate strikes have become a common occurrence around the world,
it is important to consider the growth in climate change‐focused activism and participation in …

Human drivers of national greenhouse-gas emissions

EA Rosa, T Dietz - Nature Climate Change, 2012 - nature.com
Centuries of speculation about the causes of human stress on the environment is now being
disciplined with empirical evidence, including analyses of differences in greenhouse-gas …

An environmental sociology for the twenty-first century

DN Pellow, H Nyseth Brehm - Annual Review of Sociology, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Environmental sociology has become a mature field within the discipline of sociology. We
consider several of the key theories that define the core and boundaries of the field, calling …

Environmental problems

RE Dunlap, AK Jorgenson - The Wiley‐Blackwell Encyclopedia …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In recent decades environmental problems have become globalized in terms of their
existence and impacts as well as the socioeconomic forces that generate them. After briefly …

The sociology of ecologically unequal exchange and carbon dioxide emissions, 1960–2005

AK Jorgenson - Social Science Research, 2012 - Elsevier
The author engages the sociological theory of ecologically unequal exchange to assess the
extent to which levels of per capita anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions are a function of …

The human (anthropogenic) driving forces of global climate change

EA Rosa, TK Rudel, R York… - Climate change and …, 2015 - books.google.com
It is well established that increases in the concentrations of greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions in the atmosphere and changes in the amount of sunlight reflecting back into …

NGOs, INGOs, and environmental policy reform, 1970–2010

W Longhofer, E Schofer, N Miric, DJ Frank - Social Forces, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We examine the effects of domestic and international environmental nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs) on pro-environmental policy adoption using cross-national data. We …

Hollow ecology: Ecological modernization theory and the death of nature

JA Ewing - Journal of World-Systems Research, 2017 - jwsr.pitt.edu
The last few decades have seen the rise of 'ecological modernization theory'(EMT) as a
“green capitalist” tradition extending modernization theory into environmental sociology …

Individual environmental concern in the world polity: A multilevel analysis

JE Givens, AK Jorgenson - Social Science Research, 2013 - Elsevier
The authors assess the extent to which national-level integration in the world polity
influences individual-level concern for the environment. While theoretically-derived …

Decoupling reconsidered: Does world society integration influence the relationship between the environment and economic development?

W Longhofer, A Jorgenson - Social Science Research, 2017 - Elsevier
This study advances scholarship on environment and development by examining whether
nations more embedded in the pro-environmental world society are more or less likely to …