Global Warmers and Global Coolers
A Cross-National Examination of Global Warming Dynamics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9952363 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregory M Fulkerson (0000-0001-6016-5382, a State University of New York-Oneonta, corresponding author), Laura A Mckinney (North Carolina State University), Kelly Austin (0009-0007-7393-1964, North Carolina State University), Kelly F Austin (0000-0001-7434-9529, North Carolina State University) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 44-64 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7659 • E-ISSN: 1557-9336 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2753/ijs0020-7659400203 |
| OpenAlex | W2002576733 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 46 |
Carbon dioxide emissions are the largest anthropogenic contributor to global warming, a chief concern our society faces today. Carbon sequestration is a naturally occurring process of carbon absorption by the atmosphere, oceans, and terrestrial ecosystems, thereby decelerating warming trends. Indeed, the conservation of land to optimize carbon storage is an especially important strategy for nations to lessen changes in the greenhouse effect. Due to the significantly greater capacity of trees for carbon uptake per unit area compared to other vegetation, abundant national forests remain an especially critical defense against these noxious pollutants. Applying available cross-national data on carbon dioxide emissions and forest biocapacity (i.e., carbon storage capacity), the authors derive estimates for each country's net contribution to, or alleviation of, global warming trends—what we refer to as the "climate footprint." This is a new addition to the large literature on national greenhouse gas emissions and forestation dynamics as they relate to global warming that has not been examined empirically in the environmental sociology literature. We seek to fill this gap by constructing structural equation models with the climate footprint of nations as the dependent variable. Findings support world-system theory with mixed support for world polity predictions. The authors conclude with a discussion of the findings, public policy implications, and directions for future research
Climate change · Economics · Environmental protection · Environmental resource management · Global warming · Greenhouse gas · Natural resource economics · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Ecology · Environmental Science · Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
Urbanization and Development
World-Systems Analysis
Testing Structural Equation Models
Structural Equations with Latent Variables
Marx’s Ecology
Debt, Structural Adjustment, and Organic Water Pollution
Key Challenges to Ecological Modernization Theory
Social Roots of Global Environmental Change
Exploring Connections Between Global Integration and Political Mobilization
Theorizing and Rethinking Linkages Between the Natural Environment and the Modern World-System
Position in the World-System and National Emissions of Greenhouse Gases
Global Climate Change
A rift in modernity? assessing the anthropogenic sources of global climate change with the STIRPAT model
Trouble In Paradise
Demography, Development and Deforestation in a World-System Perspective
Capitalism in Wonderland
On the two contradictions of capitalism
Environmentalism as a Global Institution
Underdeveloping the Amazon
The Structuring of a World Environmental Regime, 1870–1990
The Division of Labour in Society
Principles and Practice of Structural Equation Modeling
World Society, the Nation-State, and Environmental Protection
Structural Determinants of Peripheral Urbanization
World System Position, Dependency, and Democracy
The Nation-State and the Natural Environment over the Twentieth Century
The Effects of Science on National Economic Development, 1970 to 1990
Capitalism, nature, socialism a theoretical introduction∗
The Uneven Geography of Global Civil Society
Urbanization and Development
Economic Dependency, Repression, and Deforestation
Human Rights in a Globalizing World
World Society and the Nation-State
Structural Position in the World System and Economic Growth, 1955-1970
The Modern World-Systemas environmental history? Ecology and the rise of capitalism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |