A5082402938- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
- Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Media Studies and Communication
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Marine and fisheries research
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Critical Realism in Sociology
- American History and Culture
Tufts University
2021-2024
University of California, Berkeley
2016-2019
Data that influence policy and major investment decisions risk entrenching social political inequities.
This research shows how face masks took on discursive political significance during the early stages of coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in United States. The authors argue that divisions over cannot be understood by looking to partisan differences mask-wearing behaviors alone. Instead, they show mask became a symbol enrolled into patterns affective polarization. study relies qualitative and computational analyses opinion articles ( n = 7,970) supplemental Twitter data, transcripts major...
Climate change is among the most pressing problems of our time, yet it remains a marginal topic in sociology. This study draws on citation network analysis, qualitative coding, and computational text analysis articles published between 2015 2020 select journals U.S. elite sociology, environmental science technology studies (STS) to better understand differences similarities how these (sub)fields approach—or ignore—climate change. We map structural relations research climate analyze patterns...
This study extends theories of the construction legal compliance by conceptualizing scientists as professionals in relation to environmental law. The author argues that visions nature immanent scientific and fields can serve basis for various relations. approach is developed via a historical ethnographic case delta smelt, controversial intensely studied endangered species. Three relations became dominant at distinct junctures case. First aligned visions, coordination constructed space...
Theories of ecological citizenship seek to conceptualize political agency while taking into account humanity’s embeddedness in nature. This essay intervenes with contributions from an author distant discourses about environmental politics, but insights offer them. George Orwell’s writings respond a problem continuously articulated the history thought: estrangement conditions one’s existence. In doing so, he provides literary case study moral reasoning, practice whereby virtues are...
Keywords: environmental scienceeconomic optimizationvaluationscientific reasoningCalifornia waterfisheries
Sociologists are engaging in a long-overdue reckoning about the place of traditional canon social theory courses and pedagogy. Instructors revising their syllabi to include more diverse set authors while “provincializing” classics that have long been taught as universal. We confront question how teach contested canonical works after an instructor has committed this work. argue progressive reforms can raise new problems associated with teaching “canonical” propose one way address them...
As decades of research has the construction social problems have shown, public attention to environmental issues is hard-won.
How does stakeholder participation in natural resource management change when conservation rules are grounded near real-time data? Recognition of our rapidly changing climate and recent technological advances have facilitated the increased feasibility “dynamic management” resources, which promises to align spatiotemporal scales with ecological variability use. Drawing on Kelty’s (2020) concept “contributory autonomy,” this article offers a critical comparison how is conceived more...
Machine learning (ML) methods already permeate environmental decision-making, from processing high-dimensional data on earth systems to monitoring compliance with regulations. Of the ML techniques available address pressing problems (e.g., climate change, biodiversity loss), Reinforcement Learning (RL) may both hold greatest promise and present most perils. This paper explores how RL-driven policy refracts existing power relations in domain while also creating unique challenges ensuring...
This article analyzes the emergence of a political rationality groundwater in contemporary California. It contrasts new government nature that we call ‘political physics vital processes’, operative case Orange County Water District, with juridical and biopolitical rationalities governance. To do so, propose genealogical account grounded reading key concept Aristotle’s first book Politics. The is analyzed along axes subjectivity, space, temporality, opening to novel way conceptualizing...
In October 2017, the Trump administration announced that it would not participate in a $17 billion ‘WaterFix’ plan to remake California’s water conveyance system by drilling two massive tunnels und...
This research shows how face masks took on discursive political significance during the early stages of COVID-19 pandemic in United States. We argue that divisions over cannot be understood by looking to partisan differences mask wearing behaviors alone. Instead, we show became a symbol enrolled into patterns affective polarization. study relies qualitative and computational analyses opinion articles (n = 7,970), supplemental Twitter data, transcripts major news networks, longitudinal survey...
<p>Monitoring technologies - from satellites to smartphones- are creating information about global ecosystems at a rate and resolution that was unfathomable even decade ago. Coupled with advances in computational tools (e.g., computer vision), these billions of observations readily translated into usable derivative data products made available on data-sharing platforms GBIF, Movebank) (Wuest et al., 2019), promising unprecedented insight macroecological processes decision...
Journal Article On Rebecca Elliott’s Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in United States, Columbia University Press, 2021 Get access Amy Knight, Knight California, San Diego, USA Correspondence: a2knight@ucsd.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stéphanie Barral, Barral INRAE, France Max Besbris, Besbris Wisconsin-Madison, Caleb Scoville Tufts University, Socio-Economic Review, Volume 21, Issue 3, July 2023,...
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