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Thomas J. Burns is professor of sociology at the University of Oklahoma, and
is active in the religious studies and environmental studies programs and the
Center for Social Justice there. He serves as book review editor of Human Ecology
Review, as a member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of World-Systems
Research, and has served on the Executive Board of the Society for Human
Ecology. He is recipient of the Society for Human Ecology’s Distinguished
Leadership Award.
Carolyn Coburn is a PhD candidate in sociology at State University of New
York at Stony Brook. Her research areas are development, political economy,
and environmental sociology. She has published previously in the sociology
of development and social science research.
Thomas Dietz is professor of environmental science and policy (ESPP), sociology
and animal studies at Michigan State University, where he was founding director
of ESPP. He holds a PhD in ecology from Kent State University and a BGS from
Kent State University. His research focuses on structural human ecology and
environmental decision making. He has served as president of the Society for
Human Ecology (SHE) and has won the Gerald R. Young Book Award from SHE
and the Sustainability Science Award from the Ecological Society of America.
Jared Fitzgerald is a sociology PhD student at Boston College. His research
interests include political economy and global environmental change.
Jennifer E. Givens is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at
Washington State University. Her comparative international research focuses
on environmental sociology, global inequality, and development. Her work has
been published in Social Science Research, International Journal of Sociology,
and Organization & Environment. Xiaorui Huang is a sociology PhD student at Boston College. His research
interests include environmental sociology, political economy, and comparativehistorical sociology.
Andrew K. Jorgenson is professor of sociology and environmental studies at
Boston College. He is 2015–16 chair-elect of the Section on Environment and
Technology of the American Sociological Association, a 2016 Distinguished
Scholar-Lecturer at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, and
co-editor of the journal Sociology of Development, published by University
of California Press. His research focuses on the political economy and human
ecology of global environmental change.
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Stefano B. Longo is an assistant professor of sociology at North Carolina State
University. His research examines the interactions between social and ecological
systems. He is the lead author of the book The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans,
Fisheries, and Aquaculture, published by Rutgers University Press.
Sandy Marquart-Pyatt is associate professor of sociology and environmental
science and policy at Michigan State University. Her research examines
interrelations among environmental issues, outlooks and concerns, and
sustainability, and includes both macro-comparative and micro-level work.
She is also a quantitative modeler with expertise in analytical techniques
including structural equation modeling and hierarchical linear modeling.
Michael Restivo is an assistant professor of sociology at the State University of
New York at Geneseo. His work focuses broadly on national and global disparities
in health, technology, and environment. His research uses quantitative,
longitudinal methods to study health concerns such as maternal mortality from
a macro comparative perspective.
Tom Rudel studies the social dimensions of landscape changes in the Americas,
both North and South. His research has focused on metropolitan expansion
in the United States and forest losses in the Ecuadorian Amazon. He is a
distinguished professor in the Departments of Human Ecology and Sociology at
Rutgers University.
Juliet B. Schor is professor of sociology at Boston College. She works on issues
of sustainable consumption, time-use and new economics. Her most recent book
is Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth.
John M. Shandra is an associate professor of sociology at the State University of
New York at Stony Brook. His research focuses on health and environment in a
cross-national context.
Jamie M. Sommer is currently a doctoral candidate in sociology at Stony Brook.
Her research interests include political economy, environmental sociology,
and health.
Richard York is director and professor of environmental studies and professor
of sociology at the University of Oregon. He was the Chair of the Environment
and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association in 2013–14
and the Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Member of the School
of Social Science at the IAS in 2013–14.
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This text is taken from Human Ecology Review,
Volume 22, Number 1, 2015, published 2015 by ANU Press,
The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.