Workshop on Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change

Workshop on Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change Joane NagelJoane Nagel May 30-31, 2008 Thomas Dietz Jeffrey Broad ...

Sociology Program Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences National Science Foundation 2009 This report is a sum ...

Workshop on Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change May 30 - 31, 2008 Report prepared by: Joane Nagel University of K ...

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Acknowledgments Acknowledgments We wish to thank Dr. Patricia White, NSF Sociology Program Director for her help in planning thi ...

olial, Executive Summary On May 30-31, 2008, a workshop on Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change was held at NSF in ...

Recommendations for catalyzing the discipline: • Build capacity by increasing the number of researchers in the sociological s ...

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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Executive Summary Background Part I: Sociological Analyses of the Causes of Global Climate Cha ...

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Background Since the establishment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988,^2 the potential impacts of g ...

In order to assess the current state of sociological knowledge about global climate change and to expand the discipline’s engage ...

Each participant was asked to write a short paper which was circulated in advance of the workshop and answered two central quest ...

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Part I: Sociological Analyses of the Causes of Global Climate Change Sociological research on global climate change has its root ...

environmental impact assessment, interaction of population, technology, and affluence on the environment, tradeoffs between econ ...

economic and social organization in modern industrial societies. Global political economy research underscores the relationship ...

Cultural and Meaning Systems: Environmental sociologists use quantitative and qualitative methods to explore the social and cult ...

Part II: Sociological Perspectives on the Impacts of Global Climate Change A central finding of sociology is that unequal power ...

Environmental Justice: Sociology’s attention to people, communities, and the socio-economic ordering of resource distribution, e ...