Core Department Faculty Member
- Steven Brechin
- Professor and Graduate Program Director
- Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Email:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Office: Davison Hall, 131
- Personal Website
- Curriculum Vitae
Steve is a comparative environmental sociologist with interests in organizations and politics. Current research projects center on climate change sociology and questions of sustainability. He is co-editor with Seungyun Lee of The Routledge Handbook on Climate Change and Society, Second Edition 2025. Before arriving at Rutgers, Steve taught at Princeton, Michigan, Illinois, and Syracuse. He is currently working on a new handbook project Edward Elgar Publishing on Public Opinion on Climate Change and the Environment, with co-editors Markus Hadler, Sandy Marquart-Pyatt, and Frederic Traylor. It is expected to be released in early 2027. Steve earned his graduate degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. For more detailed information please see his Personal Website link.
- 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
- Geoengineering prioritization: a study of a proposed expression of mitigation deterrence
- Ideology, capitalism, and climate: Explaining public views about climate change in the United States
- Karl Polanyi's Environmental Sociology: A Primer
- Will Democracy Survive Climate Change?
- 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
- 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
- The Routledge Handbook on Climate Change and Society, Second Edition 2025
- Program Areas:
- Environment and Sustainability
- Global Structures
- Organizations, Networks, and Work
- Politics and Social Movements
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The Routledge Handbook on Climate Change and Society, Second Edition 2025
Routledge , 2024
Contested Nature: Promoting International Biodiversity with Social Justice in the Twenty-first Century
SUNY Press , 2003
Planting Trees in the Developing World: A Sociology of International Organizations
Johns Hopkins University Press , 1997
Population-Environment Dynamics: Ideas and Observations
University of Michigan Press , 1993
Resident Peoples and National Parks: Social Dilemmas and Strategies in International Conservation
University of Arizona Press , 1991