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  • Steven Brechin
  • Steven Brechin
  • Professor
  • Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1989
  • Email: steven.brechin@rutgers.edu
  • Office: Davison Hall, 133
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Professor of Sociology. Steve’s current research explores some of the contours of a sociology of climate change – comparative/cross-national levels of public support, the required collective action by nation-states and the international community to address it, the serious social justice issues that climate change generates, and public understanding of climate engineering technologies. Additional projects include examining climate finance and development investments, both public and private in adaptation and mitigation.  The levels of cooperation required to make significant reductions in greenhouse gases.  He is also interested in capabilities of international organizations engaged in climate change.  He is currently editing the 2nd Edition of the Routledge Handbook on Climate Change and Society.

    Other projects include articulating Karl Polanyi’s environmental sociology and sustainable institutions built upon Polanyian thinking; investigating sustainable lifestyles in the U.S. – especially around the rapid development of organic farm to table movement in Northwestern Michigan – including its economic sustainability. With local collaborators, as well as students, Steve continues his decades’ long field research in Belize, Central America, investigating the challenges to state-civil society relationships in ecological governance, and more recently on the country’s engagement with climate change - its domestic actions and international systems of support. This country-level examination helps to ground-truth his more international analysis.

    His earlier research focused on the sociology of biodiversity conservation, organized international reforestation programs, and environmentalisms.  Before arriving at Rutgers, Steve taught at Princeton, Michigan, Illinois, and Syracuse. He earned his graduate degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

  • Faculty Article(s):
  • A case for further refinement for the Green Climate Fund's 50:50 ratio climate change mitigation and adaptation allocation framework: toward a more targeted approach
  • Climate change mitigation and the collective action problem: Exploring country differences in greenhouse gas contributions
  • Ideology, capitalism, and climate: Explaining public views about climate change in the United States
  • Karl Polanyi's Environmental Sociology: A Primer
  • Faculty Bookshelf:
  • Contested Nature: Promoting International Biodiversity with Social Justice in the Twenty-first Century
  • Planting Trees in the Developing World: A Sociology of International Organizations
  • Population-Environment Dynamics: Ideas and Observations
  • Resident Peoples and National Parks: Social Dilemmas and Strategies in International Conservation
  • Program Areas:
  • Environment and Sustainability
  • Global Structures
  • Organizations, Networks, and Work
  • Politics and Social Movements

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