Workshop on Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change

Marina Fischer-Kowalski Vienna Institute of Social Ecology, Alps-Adria University Climate Change, Social Metabolism, and Human W ...

But what we also know is the fact that the specific metabolic profile of agrarian or not yet fully industrialized countries (whi ...

gain a better, multidimensional understanding of human life chances, conceptually and in terms of measurement and data. This wou ...

Matthews, Emily, et al. The Weight of Nations: Material Outflows From Industrial Economies. Washington, D.C.: World Resources In ...

Dana R. Fisher Columbia University What do we know: What does Sociology bring to the table for studying the human dimensions of ...

Environmental Initiatives are working to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in communities and cities around the United States. Thr ...

Although I have focused this summary on the ways that my research has applied sociology to our understanding of global climate c ...

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Ken Frank Michigan State University Socially Embedded Environmental Action What do we know: What does Sociology bring to the tab ...

each social context may have effects, but we do not know who affects beliefs and who affects behaviors, and how and why. I belie ...

Ostrom E. 1990. Governing the Commons: the Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Univ. Press ...

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Eric Hanley University of Kansas Economic Growth and Climate Change: Exploring the Relationship between GDP and CO 2 Emissions W ...

countries at a high level of per capita GDP (such as the United States and Canada) are excluded from the analysis, the cubic ter ...

of the findings associated with the coefficients presented in this table; suffice it to say that the N-shaped functional form co ...

Table 2. Form of individual country regressions, countries with per capita GDP greater than $12,000 as of 2004 only (time trend ...

Table 3. Estimates from a fixed-effects model, 1980-2004 (lag term included, standard errors in parentheses). Dependent variable ...

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Sharon Harlan Arizona State University What do we know: What does Sociology bring to the table for studying the human dimensions ...

Two general points of particular importance for sociologists emerge from the foregoing observations. First, climate changes invo ...