Peer-reviewed articles
Basseches, Joshua A. 2024. “Who Pays for Environmental Policy? Business Power and the Design of State-Level Climate Policies.” Politics and Society 52(3):335-511. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00323292231195184
Basseches et al. 2022. “Climate Policy Conflict in the U.S. States: A Critical Review and Way Forward.” Climatic Change 170(3): 32. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-022-03319-w
Brulle, Robert. 2019. “Networks of Opposition: A Structural Analysis of U.S. Climate Change Countermovement Coalitions 1989–2015.” Sociological Inquiry. 91(3), pp.603-624.
Clark, Brett and Richard York. 2005. “Carbon Metabolism: Global Capitalism, Climate Change, and the Biospheric Rift.” Theory and Society 34(4):391–428.
Cunsolo, Ashlee, and Neville R. Ellis. “Ecological grief as a mental health response to climate change-related loss.” Nature Climate Change, 8(4):275.
Daggett, Cara. 2018. Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire. Millennium: Journal of International Studies. 47(1):25-44.
Ergas, Christina, Patrick Greiner, Julius McGee, and Matt Clement. 2021. “Does Gender Climate Influence Climate Change?: The Multidimensionality of Gender Equality and its Countervailing Effects on the Carbon Intensity of Well-Being.” Sustainability. 13(7): 3956; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13073956
Ergas, Christina and Richard York. 2012. “Women’s Status and Carbon Dioxide Emissions: A Quantitative Cross-national Analysis.” Social Science Research. 41:965-976.
Fitzgerald, Jared, Juliet Schor, and Andrew Jorgenson. 2018. “Working Hours and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the United States, 2007-2013.” Social Forces 96:1851-1874.
Ford, Allison and Kari Marie Norgaard. 2020. Whose everyday climate cultures? Environmental subjectivities and invisibility in climate change discourse. Climatic Change, 163(1), pp.43-62.
Givens, Jennifer, Xiaorui Huang, and Andrew Jorgenson. 2019. “Ecologically Unequal Exchange: A Theory of Global Environmental Injustice.” Sociology Compass 13:e12693.
Grant, Don, Tyler Hansen, Andrew Jorgenson, and Wesley Longhofer. 2024. “A Worldwide Analysis of Stranded Fossil Fuel Assets’ Impact on Power Plants’ CO2 Emissions.” Nature Communications 15:7517.
Grant, Don, Andrew Jorgenson, and Wesley Longhofer. 2020. Super Polluters: Tackling the World’s Largest Sites of Climate-Disrupting Emissions. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Jorgenson, Andrew. 2012. “The Sociology of Ecologically Unequal Exchange and Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 1960-2005.” Social Science Research 41:242-252.
Jorgenson, Andrew. 2014. “Economic Development and the Carbon Intensity of Human Well-Being.” Nature Climate Change 4:186-189.
Jorgenson, Andrew. 2024. “Sociology and the Climate Crisis: A Momentum Surge and the Roots Run Deep.” Sociological Forum 39:153-156.
Jorgenson, Andrew, and Brett Clark. 2012. “Are the Economy and the Environment Decoupling? A Comparative International Study, 1960-2005.” American Journal of Sociology 118:1-44.
Jorgenson, Andrew, Brett Clark, Ryan Thombs, Jeffrey Kentor, Jennifer Givens, Xiaorui Huang, Hassan El Tinay, Daniel Auerbach, and Matthew Mahutga. 2023. “Guns Versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Effect of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions.” American Sociological Review 88:418-453.
Jorgenson, Andrew, Rob Clark, Jeffrey Kentor, and Annika Rieger. 2022. “Networks, Stocks, and Climate Change: A New Approach to the Study of Foreign Investment and the Environment.” Energy Research & Social Science 87:102461.
Jorgenson, Andrew, Taekyeong Goh, Ryan Thombs, Yasmin Koop-Monteiro, Mark Shakespear, Grace Gletsu, and Nicolas Viens. 2025. “Inequality is Driving the Climate Crisis: A Longitudinal Analysis of Province-Level Carbon Emissions in Canada, 1997-2020.” Energy Research & Social Science 119:103845.
Jorgenson, Andrew, Juliet Schor, and Xiaorui Huang. 2017. “Income Inequality and Carbon Emissions in the United States: A State-Level Analysis, 1997-2012.” Ecological Economics 134:40-48.
Jorgenson, Andrew, Hassan El Tinay, Jared Fitzgerald, Jennifer Givens, Taekyeong Goh, Xiaorui Huang, Orla Kelly, Annika Rieger, and Ryan Thombs. 2024. “Advances in Research on Anthropogenic Drivers of Climate Change.” Pages 60-76 in Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society, 2nd Edition, edited by Stephen Brechin and Seungyun Lee. Routledge Press.
Kashwan, Prakash, Lauren M. MacLean, and Gustavo A. García-López. 2019. “Rethinking Power and Institutions in the Shadows of Neoliberalism: (an Introduction to a Special Issue of World Development).” World Development. 120: 133-46.
Kashwan, Prakash, Frank Biermann, Aarti Gupta, and Chukwumerije Okereke. 2020. “Planetary Justice: Prioritizing the Poor in Earth System Governance.” Earth System Governance. 6:100075.
Kashwan, Prakash, and Jesse Ribot. 2021. “Violent Silence: The Erasure of History and Justice in Global Climate Policy.” Current History. 120: 326-31.
Liu, John Chung-En, and Andrew Szasz. “Now is the time to add more sociology of Climate Change to our introduction to sociology courses.” Teaching Sociology 47.4 (2019): 273-283.
MacGregor, Sherilyn. 2009. “A stranger silence still: the need for feminist social research on climate change.” Sociological Review. 57(2_suppl), pp.124-140.
McCright & Dunlap. 2003. “Defeating Kyoto: The conservative movement’s impact on US climate change policy.” Social Problems. 50(3):348-373. (Canvas)
McCright & Dunlap, 2011. “Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white males in the United States.” Global Environmental Change. 21(4):1163-1172.
McGee, Julius, Christina Ergas, and Matthew Clement. 2018. “Racing to Reduce Emissions: Assessing the Relationship between Race and Environmental Impacts from Transportation.” Sociology of Development. 4(2): 217–236.
Norgaard, Kari. 2012. “Climate Denial and the Construction of Innocence: Reproducing Transnational Environmental Privilege in the Face of Climate Change”. Race, Gender & Class. 19(1/2):80-103.
Oreskes, Naomi. 2004. “The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change.” Science. 306(5702):1686.
Overland, Indra and Benjamin K. Sovacool. 2019. “The misallocation of climate research funding.” Energy Research and Social Science. 62:101349.
Shove, Elizabeth. 2010. “Beyond the ABC: climate change policy and theories of social change.” Environment and Planning.42:1273-1285.
Shove, Elizabeth, & Walker. “What Is Energy For? Social Practice and Energy Demand.” Theory, Culture & Society 31.5 (2014): 41-58.
Smith, Chad L., Gregory Hooks and Michael Lengefeld. 2024. “Linking the Treadmills of Production and Destruction to Disproportionate Carbon Emissions.” Climate Action 3(1):72-11. doi: 10.1038/s44168-024-00156-8. https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-024-00156-8.pdf
Willox, Ashlee Consolo. 2012. “Climate change as the work of mourning.” Environment & Ethics.17(2):137-64.
Academic books and book chapters
Bhavnani, Kum-Kum, John Foran, Priya A. Kurian, and Debashish Munshi, eds.. 2019. Climate Futures: Re-imagining Global Climate Justice. ZED Books Ltd. London.
Dryzek, John S., Richard B. Norgaard and David Schlosberg, eds.. 2011. The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society. Oxford University Press. Oxford.
Dunlap, Riley E. and Robert J. Brulle, eds. 2015. Climate Change and Society: Sociological Perspectives. Report of the American Sociological Association’s Task Force on Sociology and Global Climate Change. Oxford University Press.
Ergas, Christina. 2021. Surviving Collapse: Building Community Toward Radical Sustainability. Oxford University Press. New York, NY.
Feola, Giuseppe, Hilary Geoghegan and Alex Arnall, eds. 2019. Climate and Culture: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on a Warming World. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Grindsted, Thomas. Practicing SDG Strategies through Fieldwork – Climate Mitigation efforts in a former wetland [PDF]
Grindsted, Thomas, and Thomas Nielsen. 2022. “Spaces of learning – practising the SDGs through geographical fieldwork methods in a nature park”, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol. 23 No. 8, pp. 105-119. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSHE-04-2021-0132 [PDF]
Henson, Robert. 2019. The Thinking Person’s Guide to Climate Change. Second Edition. University of Chicago Press. Chicago, IL.
Hoffman, Andrew. 2015 How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate. Stanford Briefs, Stanford University Press. Stanford, CA.
Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth, and Katherine K. Wilkinson. 2020. All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis. One World. New York.
Kimbro, Rachel. 2021. In Too Deep: Class and Mothering in a Flooded Community. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Marino, Elizabeth. 2015. Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground: An Ethnography of Climate Change in Shishmaref Alaska. University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks.
Méndez, Michael. 2020. Climate Change from the Streets: How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
Nagel, Joane. 2016. Gender and Climate Change: Impacts, Science and Policy. Routledge, New York & London.
Overdevest, Christine (ed.). 2024. Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Sociology. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Parenti, Christian. 2012. Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence. New York: Bold Type Books.
Prechel, Harland. 2023. “Organizational political economy, corporate power, and the great acceleration of environmental pollution in the United States,” Chapters, in: Michael A. Long & Michael J. Lynch & Paul B. Stretesky (ed.), Handbook on Inequality and the Environment, chapter 17, pages 288-307, Edward Elgar Publishing. [PDF]
Prechel, Harland. 2021. Neoliberal Organizational and Political-Legal Arrangements and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the U.S. Electrical Energy Sector. The Sociological Quarterly, 62(2), 209–233. https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2020.1733450 [PDF]
Ray, Sarah Jaquette. 2020. A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: On How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet. University of California Press. Oakland.
Smil, Vaclav. 2006. Energy: A Beginner’s Guide. OneWorld Publications.
Wallimann, Isidor:
- Environmental Policy Is Social Policy — Social Policy Is Environmental Policy : Toward Sustainability Policy. New York, NY: Springer. [PDF]
- Social and Solidarity Economy for Sustainable Development: The Social Economy Basel example
- The Great Sustainability Challenge
- Urban Agriculture as Embedded in the Social and Solidarity Economy Basel: Developing Sustainable Communities
- Can the World Industrialization Project Be Sustained?
- On the Edge of Scarcity: Environment, Resources, Population, Sustainability, and Conflict
- The Coming Age of Scarcity : Preventing Mass Death and Genocide in the Twenty-first Century
- Das Zeitalter der Knappheit – Ressourcen, Konflikte, Lebenschancen
Scientific reports and statements
National Climate Assessment: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States Report Overview and Findings [select most recent edition]
IPCC 6th Assessment Report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Past reports can be retrieved at https://www.ipcc.ch/
Anchorage Declaration – Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change. 2009. “Indigenous peoples’ representatives from the Arctic, North America, Asia, Pacific, Latin America, Africa, Caribbean and Russia attending the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change call for greater government and international actions to address climate change and governmental and intergovernmental commitments to safeguard indigenous peoples’ rights in climate change mitigation and adaptation policies and programmes.
Bali Principles of Climate Justice. 2002. [developed in Bali by a coalition of environmental justice and human rights groups including CorpWatch, Third World Network, Oil Watch, the Indigenous Environmental Network, and others at the final preparatory negotiations for the Johannesburg Earth Summit.]
CDP and the Climate Accountability Institute. 2017. Carbon Majors Report. [Report documenting that 100 Oil, Coal and Gas producers were responsible for 71% of industrial carbon emissions.] View data at Climate Accountability Institute’s website.