Pierce Greenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 246089 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pierce Greenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pierce |
| FAMILY NAME | Greenberg |
| SIGNATURE | GREENBERG P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Creighton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5624-6646 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Social factors shape federal environmental crime prosecution patterns in the USA
Prisons and Pollution: A Nationwide Analysis of Carceral Environmental Inequality
The disproportionate exposure of incarcerated populations to environmental harms is an emerging area of interest among scholars and activists. Existing research has illuminated these intersecting systems of inequality with broad theorization and case study examples of prisons and jails located near environmental hazards. However, there are few nationwide assessments of carceral environmental inequality-studies examining whether prison communities…
Driving environmental inequality: The unequal harms and benefits of highways
Highway construction projects have created extensive environmental and social burdens on racially segregated neighborhoods in urban areas in the U.S. However, few studies examine how some places benefit from highways and contribute to the harms in highway-adjacent communities. This paper aims to fill this gap by (1) conducting a case study of three highway projects in Omaha, Nebraska, and (2) using location-based services data to compare the neig…
Testing Motivation-Based vs. Social Exchange Communication Strategies in Email Survey Recruitment
Despite well-documented challenges, researchers across the social sciences continue to rely on email to recruit research participants. However, few studies examine how different communication strategies impact email open and conversion rates, especially among surveys of establishments. Our paper aims to fill that gap by examining whether motivation-based appeals—which we develop from respondents’ reasons for participating—outperform a communicati…
An Exploratory Analysis of Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence Victimization Among Persons Experiencing Eviction
A paucity of research has examined the prevalence of domestic and intimate partner violence (DV/IPV) victimization among persons experiencing eviction. The current study uses administrative records for a random sample of evicted adults in Omaha, Nebraska from 2017 to 2019 ( n = 306) to assess the prevalence of DV/IPV victimization among evicted persons and differences among the DV/IPV and no DV/IPV groups. Findings indicated over 20% of evicted p…
Using Large-Scale Location Data to Examine Racial Diversity and Segregation in Church Attendees' Home Neighborhoods
The racial diversity of churches has been a longstanding topic of interest in the social science of religion. Studies have historically found low levels of racial diversity within churches-but some evidence suggests that diversification is increasing. However, past research has not addressed racial segregation in another significant setting: church attendees' home neighborhoods. Our article illustrates how large-scale location data collected from…
Sites of Ambivalence? Conflicting Attitudes Toward Coal in Southern West Virginia
Communities with legacies of fossil fuel extraction bear the brunt of socioeconomic impacts of energy transitions, and the residents of those communities also play a role in energy policy debates. In the coalfields of southern West Virginia, residents are often portrayed as unquestionably supportive of the coal industry at the expense of the local environment. As such, the region could be categorized as a site of acceptance where locals internali…
Opting Out: Individualism and Vaccine Refusal in Pockets of Socioeconomic Homogeneity
Cases of measles and other highly contagious diseases are rising in the United States. Public health experts blame the rise partly on the spatial concentration of parents declining to vaccinate their children, but researchers have given little attention to theorizing why this clustering occurs in particular communities. We argue that residential and school selection processes create "pockets of homogeneity" attracting parents inclined to opt out …
Traditional or Economic Values? Analyzing Absentee Landowner Attitudes Amid Social and Agricultural Transformation in Japan
Agricultural landownership in Japan has changed drastically over the last century due to post-World War II land reforms and cultural, political, and economic shifts in the subsequent decades. Initial land reform shifted the concentrated ownership of land from the wealthy to small-scale farmers. But as Japan industrialized and became more urban-centered, a substantial amount of rural land has been left abandoned or unmanaged by descendants of thos…
Risk perceptions and the maintenance of environmental injustice in Appalachia
Coal impoundment failures in Appalachia have caused some of the most devastating environmental disasters in U.S. history. However, people living near impoundments today report low levels of worry about coal waste disasters. This paper connects the literature on environmental risk perceptions and environmental justice to explain the socioeconomic, geographic, and ideological factors that correlate with impoundment failure worry. Survey data collec…
Energy consumption boomtowns in the United States: Community responses to a cryptocurrency boom
Coal Waste, Socioeconomic Change, and Environmental Inequality in Appalachia: Implications for a Just Transition in Coal Country
Resource-dependent communities are subject to both unstable economic patterns and environmental degradation associated with extractive industries. However, few studies have empirically analyzed these dynamics in tandem and over time. This paper explores whether Appalachian neighborhoods closer to coal waste impoundments experienced steeper poverty changes from 1990 to 2000. Impoundment failures have resulted in some of the largest environmental d…
In the shadow of production: Coal waste accumulation and environmental inequality formation in Eastern Kentucky
Disproportionality and Resource-Based Environmental Inequality: An Analysis of Neighborhood Proximity to Coal Impoundments in Appalachia
Environmental hazards created by resource extraction impose numerous risks on rural populations, but have been understudied in quantitative analyses of environmental inequality. This study fills that gap by examining whether neighborhoods with socioeconomic disadvantages are disproportionately proximate to coal impoundments in Appalachia. Coal impoundments are large, hazardous dams that hold billions of gallons of wastewater and slurry, a sludge-…
Spatial Inequality and Uneven Development: The Local Stratification of Poverty in Appalachia
Scholars have long analyzed the persistence of Appalachian poverty in counties, but less is known about the dimensions of poverty at smaller geographic levels. This paper builds upon the concept of spatial inequality, which explains how socio-economic disadvantage is segregated across residential space based on race and class. I extend the study of spatial inequality to Appalachia by investigating how local poverty is stratified across the region…
Strengthening Sociological Research through Public Records Requests
Sociologists rarely attempt to obtain public records through freedom of information requests (FOIR), despite the numerous ways such requests can contribute to social research. FOIR refers to the process of procuring data from the government through public records laws and requests. The limited sociological literature on FOIR largely portrays it as a critical-activist tool that requires an uncertain and time-consuming process. But these conception…
Opting Out: Individualism and Vaccine Refusal in Pockets of Socioeconomic Homogeneity
Cases of measles and other highly contagious diseases are rising in the United States. Public health experts blame the rise partly on the spatial concentration of parents declining to vaccinate their children, but researchers have given little attention to theorizing why this clustering occurs in particular communities. We argue that residential and school selection processes create "pockets of homogeneity" attracting parents inclined to opt out …
Disproportionality and Resource-Based Environmental Inequality: An Analysis of Neighborhood Proximity to Coal Impoundments in Appalachia
Environmental hazards created by resource extraction impose numerous risks on rural populations, but have been understudied in quantitative analyses of environmental inequality. This study fills that gap by examining whether neighborhoods with socioeconomic disadvantages are disproportionately proximate to coal impoundments in Appalachia. Coal impoundments are large, hazardous dams that hold billions of gallons of wastewater and slurry, a sludge-…
Coal Waste, Socioeconomic Change, and Environmental Inequality in Appalachia: Implications for a Just Transition in Coal Country
Resource-dependent communities are subject to both unstable economic patterns and environmental degradation associated with extractive industries. However, few studies have empirically analyzed these dynamics in tandem and over time. This paper explores whether Appalachian neighborhoods closer to coal waste impoundments experienced steeper poverty changes from 1990 to 2000. Impoundment failures have resulted in some of the largest environmental d…
In the shadow of production: Coal waste accumulation and environmental inequality formation in Eastern Kentucky
Strengthening Sociological Research through Public Records Requests
Sociologists rarely attempt to obtain public records through freedom of information requests (FOIR), despite the numerous ways such requests can contribute to social research. FOIR refers to the process of procuring data from the government through public records laws and requests. The limited sociological literature on FOIR largely portrays it as a critical-activist tool that requires an uncertain and time-consuming process. But these conception…
Energy consumption boomtowns in the United States: Community responses to a cryptocurrency boom
Prisons and Pollution: A Nationwide Analysis of Carceral Environmental Inequality
The disproportionate exposure of incarcerated populations to environmental harms is an emerging area of interest among scholars and activists. Existing research has illuminated these intersecting systems of inequality with broad theorization and case study examples of prisons and jails located near environmental hazards. However, there are few nationwide assessments of carceral environmental inequality-studies examining whether prison communities…
Using Large-Scale Location Data to Examine Racial Diversity and Segregation in Church Attendees' Home Neighborhoods
The racial diversity of churches has been a longstanding topic of interest in the social science of religion. Studies have historically found low levels of racial diversity within churches-but some evidence suggests that diversification is increasing. However, past research has not addressed racial segregation in another significant setting: church attendees' home neighborhoods. Our article illustrates how large-scale location data collected from…
Risk perceptions and the maintenance of environmental injustice in Appalachia
Coal impoundment failures in Appalachia have caused some of the most devastating environmental disasters in U.S. history. However, people living near impoundments today report low levels of worry about coal waste disasters. This paper connects the literature on environmental risk perceptions and environmental justice to explain the socioeconomic, geographic, and ideological factors that correlate with impoundment failure worry. Survey data collec…
Strengthening Sociological Research through Public Records Requests
Sociologists rarely attempt to obtain public records through freedom of information requests (FOIR), despite the numerous ways such requests can contribute to social research. FOIR refers to the process of procuring data from the government through public records laws and requests. The limited sociological literature on FOIR largely portrays it as a critical-activist tool that requires an uncertain and time-consuming process. But these conception…
Spatial Inequality and Uneven Development: The Local Stratification of Poverty in Appalachia
Scholars have long analyzed the persistence of Appalachian poverty in counties, but less is known about the dimensions of poverty at smaller geographic levels. This paper builds upon the concept of spatial inequality, which explains how socio-economic disadvantage is segregated across residential space based on race and class. I extend the study of spatial inequality to Appalachia by investigating how local poverty is stratified across the region…
Disproportionality and Resource-Based Environmental Inequality: An Analysis of Neighborhood Proximity to Coal Impoundments in Appalachia
Environmental hazards created by resource extraction impose numerous risks on rural populations, but have been understudied in quantitative analyses of environmental inequality. This study fills that gap by examining whether neighborhoods with socioeconomic disadvantages are disproportionately proximate to coal impoundments in Appalachia. Coal impoundments are large, hazardous dams that hold billions of gallons of wastewater and slurry, a sludge-…
Energy consumption boomtowns in the United States: Community responses to a cryptocurrency boom
Coal Waste, Socioeconomic Change, and Environmental Inequality in Appalachia: Implications for a Just Transition in Coal Country
Resource-dependent communities are subject to both unstable economic patterns and environmental degradation associated with extractive industries. However, few studies have empirically analyzed these dynamics in tandem and over time. This paper explores whether Appalachian neighborhoods closer to coal waste impoundments experienced steeper poverty changes from 1990 to 2000. Impoundment failures have resulted in some of the largest environmental d…
In the shadow of production: Coal waste accumulation and environmental inequality formation in Eastern Kentucky
Risk perceptions and the maintenance of environmental injustice in Appalachia
Coal impoundment failures in Appalachia have caused some of the most devastating environmental disasters in U.S. history. However, people living near impoundments today report low levels of worry about coal waste disasters. This paper connects the literature on environmental risk perceptions and environmental justice to explain the socioeconomic, geographic, and ideological factors that correlate with impoundment failure worry. Survey data collec…
Opting Out: Individualism and Vaccine Refusal in Pockets of Socioeconomic Homogeneity
Cases of measles and other highly contagious diseases are rising in the United States. Public health experts blame the rise partly on the spatial concentration of parents declining to vaccinate their children, but researchers have given little attention to theorizing why this clustering occurs in particular communities. We argue that residential and school selection processes create "pockets of homogeneity" attracting parents inclined to opt out …
Traditional or Economic Values? Analyzing Absentee Landowner Attitudes Amid Social and Agricultural Transformation in Japan
Agricultural landownership in Japan has changed drastically over the last century due to post-World War II land reforms and cultural, political, and economic shifts in the subsequent decades. Initial land reform shifted the concentrated ownership of land from the wealthy to small-scale farmers. But as Japan industrialized and became more urban-centered, a substantial amount of rural land has been left abandoned or unmanaged by descendants of thos…
Sites of Ambivalence? Conflicting Attitudes Toward Coal in Southern West Virginia
Communities with legacies of fossil fuel extraction bear the brunt of socioeconomic impacts of energy transitions, and the residents of those communities also play a role in energy policy debates. In the coalfields of southern West Virginia, residents are often portrayed as unquestionably supportive of the coal industry at the expense of the local environment. As such, the region could be categorized as a site of acceptance where locals internali…
Driving environmental inequality: The unequal harms and benefits of highways
Highway construction projects have created extensive environmental and social burdens on racially segregated neighborhoods in urban areas in the U.S. However, few studies examine how some places benefit from highways and contribute to the harms in highway-adjacent communities. This paper aims to fill this gap by (1) conducting a case study of three highway projects in Omaha, Nebraska, and (2) using location-based services data to compare the neig…
Testing Motivation-Based vs. Social Exchange Communication Strategies in Email Survey Recruitment
Despite well-documented challenges, researchers across the social sciences continue to rely on email to recruit research participants. However, few studies examine how different communication strategies impact email open and conversion rates, especially among surveys of establishments. Our paper aims to fill that gap by examining whether motivation-based appeals—which we develop from respondents’ reasons for participating—outperform a communicati…
An Exploratory Analysis of Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence Victimization Among Persons Experiencing Eviction
A paucity of research has examined the prevalence of domestic and intimate partner violence (DV/IPV) victimization among persons experiencing eviction. The current study uses administrative records for a random sample of evicted adults in Omaha, Nebraska from 2017 to 2019 ( n = 306) to assess the prevalence of DV/IPV victimization among evicted persons and differences among the DV/IPV and no DV/IPV groups. Findings indicated over 20% of evicted p…
Using Large-Scale Location Data to Examine Racial Diversity and Segregation in Church Attendees' Home Neighborhoods
The racial diversity of churches has been a longstanding topic of interest in the social science of religion. Studies have historically found low levels of racial diversity within churches-but some evidence suggests that diversification is increasing. However, past research has not addressed racial segregation in another significant setting: church attendees' home neighborhoods. Our article illustrates how large-scale location data collected from…
Prisons and Pollution: A Nationwide Analysis of Carceral Environmental Inequality
The disproportionate exposure of incarcerated populations to environmental harms is an emerging area of interest among scholars and activists. Existing research has illuminated these intersecting systems of inequality with broad theorization and case study examples of prisons and jails located near environmental hazards. However, there are few nationwide assessments of carceral environmental inequality-studies examining whether prison communities…
Social factors shape federal environmental crime prosecution patterns in the USA
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Economics (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (8 works) · Environmental justice (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Socioeconomic status (6 works) · Coal (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)