Abstract: In this talk Andrew Jorgenson provides an overview of h is ongoing collaborative research streams that focus on various interconnec tions between anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and industrial polluti on\, forms of social inequality\, and human well-being. This theoretically- engaged research involves the combining of social and environmental dataset s at various units of analysis\, from the facility level up to the national level\, and the use of various modeling techniques\, including longitudina l regression analysis\, multilevel regression analysis\, and qualitative co mparative analysis. Besides contributing to various areas of research withi n sociology\, this work is intended to help situate fundamental sociologica l principles\, especially the importance of social-structural context\, mor e centrally within sustainability science.
Bio: Andrew Jorgenson is Professor an d Chair in the Department of Sociology and Professor of Environmental Studi es at Boston College. The primary area of his research is the human dimensi ons of global environmental change\, with a focus on the drivers of greenho use gas emissions\, energy consumption\, industrial pollution and land cove r change. He also conducts research on the political-economic and environme ntal conditions that shape population health outcomes\, uneven development\ , income inequality and environmental concern. His ongoing collaborative re search on the facility-level and country-level factors that shape power pla nts' carbon emissions has received multiple waves of funding from the Natio nal Science Foundation. Committed to both disciplinary and interdisciplinar y research\, his recent published work appears in a variety of journals\, i ncluding American Journal of Sociology\, Nature Climate Change \, Social Forces\, Environmental Research Letters\, Sociological Theory\, Social Problems\, Sustainabilit y Science\, Sociological Science\, Climatic Change\, Social Science Research\, WIREs Climate Change\, Soc iological Forum\, Ecological Economics\, SSM Population H ealth\, and Conservation Biology. He recently finished a book with coauthors Don Grant and Wesley Longhofer\, titled Super Polluters : Tackling the World's Largest Sources of Climate-Disrupting Emissions \, which will be published by Columbia University Press in 2020. He was the 2016-2017 chair of the Environmental Sociology Section of the American Soc iological Association (ASA)\, and a member of the ASA's Task Force on Socio logy and Global Climate Change\, which concluded in 2016. He served as the 2018-2019 chair of the Sociology of Development Section of the ASA and is c urrently an at large officer for the Society for Human Ecology. He is the f ounding co-editor of Sociology of Development\, a journal published by Univ ersity of California Press.
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