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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
We examine the effects of domestic and international environmental nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) on pro-environmental policy adoption using cross-national data. We …
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 …
The authors assess the extent to which national-level integration in the world polity influences individual-level concern for the environment. While theoretically-derived …
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 …