Conversations Across Borders: A Workshop in Transnational Studies
Date and Time
Location
“Development, Inequality, and Disproportionality: Human Drivers of GHG Emissions and the Carbon Intensity of Human Well-Being"
Speaker:
Andrew Jorgenson, Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies, Boston College.
Discussant:
Brianna Castro, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.
Contact:
John Arroyo
arroyojc@mit.edu
Chairs:
Peggy Levitt, Associate. Chair; Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Wellesley College.
Jocelyn Viterna, Faculty Associate. Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.
Abstract:
In this talk I begin with a summary of my recent collaborative research on the effects of development and income inequality on national-level anthropogenic carbon emissions, and how these relationships change through time. I highlight the implications of this research for longstanding theoretical debates in environmental sociology and our sister disciplines. Next, I provide an introduction to the emerging area of multidisciplinary research on nations’ carbon intensity of human well-being, where we assess the extent to which development and inequality partially shape such socioenvironmental relationships for nations in different structural and regional contexts. I conclude by describing current multimethod research where we investigate related empirical relationships, but at smaller scales, including the facility level and the US state level.