Andrew K. Jorgenson
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Working in the areas of environmental sociology and global political economy, Andrew conducts research on the human dimensions of global and regional environmental change. His work appears in a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals, including American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Nature Climate Change, and Environmental Research Letters. He is coauthor of Super Polluters: Tackling the World’s Largest Sites of Climate-Disrupting Emissions (Columbia University Press). In 2020, he received the Fred Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Environmental Sociology.
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Compares ecological modernization theory, which posits that environmental degradation will decrease over time as economic development increases, with treadmill of production theory, which argues that both will increase apace. Statistical analyses of national-level carbon emissions provide mixed and unbalanced support for both theories.