Workshop on Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change

JoAnn Carmin Massachusetts Institute of Technology Governance for Achieving Urban Climate Adaptation What do we know: What does ...

Whether they are located in coastal or mountainous areas, or in the global north or the south, cities and towns throughout the w ...

How does adaptation planning and action vary from one country and city to the next? Between the global North and South? To what ...

and supporting municipal climate adaptation agendas. Therefore, some of the questions that we should explore include: What rati ...

Thomas Dietz University of Michigan Global Environmental Change and Sociology: Substance and Method What do we know: What does S ...

theory, environmental Kuznets curve theory, post-materialist theory) with the suite of theories that argue that continued growth ...

national scientific communities are important in shaping policy and thus ultimately environmental stressors. The arguments about ...

Reid, Walter V, Fikret Berkes, and Thomas Wilbanks. 2006. “Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems: Concepts and Applications in E ...

Riley E. Dunlap Oklahoma State University The Conservative Assault on Climate Science: A Successful Case of Deconstructing Scien ...

claims without evaluating their relative veracity and ignoring the interests supporting the “camps” issuing these competing clai ...

(2) McCright and I (2003) also analyzed the ties between a small number of skeptic scientists and leading conservative think tan ...

Overall there has been a modest increase in the percentage of Americans who believe that the effects of global warming “have alr ...

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John McCain’s acceptance of climate science and the need for climate-change policy will affect the views of rank- and-file Repub ...

Dunlap, Riley E. and Brent K. Marshall. 2007. “Environmental Sociology.” Pp. 329-340 in C. D. Bryant and D. L. Peck (eds.), 21 s ...

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Barbara Entwisle University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Local Perspectives on Global Climate Change: Modeling Neighborhood ...

find refuge), we need to also consider the possibility that the heat index is probably also higher in these places, and air poll ...

distribution of the population with respect to environmental vulnerability and economic and social disadvantage is an important ...

VanWey, L.K., R.R. Rindfuss, M.P. Gutmann, B. Entwisle, and D. Balk. 2005. “Confidentiality and Spatially Explicit Data: Concern ...