# Conversations Across Borders: A Workshop in Transnational Studies #### calendar\_today Date and Time **December 5, 2016** 04:00PM - 06:00PM EST #### pin\_drop Location **William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550** ## “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** ### 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. See also:- [ 2016–2017 ](/academic-year/2016%E2%80%932017) - [ Politics and Social Change Workshop ](/seminars/tsi/schedule) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/node/948076/event-feed.ics) Copy link link