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Brett Clark is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States and focuses on research at the intersection of social sciences and environmental science. Their scholarly work spans multiple subfields, including sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, global and planetary change, as well as health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

The main topics addressed in their research encompass energy, environment, and transportation policies; political economy and Marxism; energy, environment, and economic growth; climate change policy and economics; climate change and geoengineering; air quality and health impacts; and climate change and health impacts.

Brett Clark has published extensively in venues such as Monthly Review, where nine of their articles have appeared, as well as Discover Sustainability and Dialogues in Human Geography, each featuring two of their works. Other publication venues include Energy Research & Social Science and Global Environmental Change.

Frequent coauthors in their research include John Bellamy Foster, Lazarus Adua, Andrew K. Jorgenson, Brian M. Napoletano, and Ryan P. Thombs.

Their recent papers include:

  • The ineffectiveness of efficiency: The paradoxical effects of state policy on energy consumption in the United States, 2020, Energy Research & Social Science
  • Seeking a handle on climate change: Examining the comparative effectiveness of energy efficiency improvement and renewable energy production in the United States, 2021, Global Environmental Change
  • The rebound effect and the challenge of moving beyond fossil fuels: A review of empirical and theoretical research, 2022, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • Power, proximity, and physiology: does income inequality and racial composition amplify the impacts of air pollution on life expectancy in the United States?, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Guns versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Effect of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions, 2023, American Sociological Review

Brett Clark has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by Research in Political Economy, specifically Polish Marxism after Luxemburg, released in 2022.

Best Publications

  • The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth

    John Bellamy Foster;Brett Clark;Richard York

  • Carbon metabolism: Global capitalism, climate change, and the biospheric rift

    Brett Clark;Richard York

  • Are the Economy and the Environment Decoupling? A Comparative International Study, 1960–20051

    Andrew K. Jorgenson;Brett Clark

  • Ecological Imperialism and the Global Metabolic Rift: Unequal Exchange and the Guano/Nitrates Trade

    Brett Clark;John Bellamy Foster

  • The Economy, Military, and Ecologically Unequal Exchange Relationships in Comparative Perspective: A Panel Study of the Ecological Footprints of Nations, 1975—2000

    Andrew K. Jorgenson;Brett Clark

  • The Metabolic Rift and Marine Ecology: An Analysis of the Ocean Crisis Within Capitalist Production

    Rebecca Clausen;Brett Clark

  • Societies consuming nature: A panel study of the ecological footprints of nations, 1960–2003 ☆

    Andrew K. Jorgenson;Brett Clark

  • Militarization and the Environment: A Panel Study of Carbon Dioxide Emissions and the Ecological Footprints of Nations, 1970-2000

    Andrew K. Jorgenson;Brett Clark;Jeffrey Kentor

  • William Stanley Jevons and The Coal Question: An Introduction to Jevons’s “Of the Economy of Fuel”

    Brett Clark;John Bellamy Foster

  • The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture

    Stefano B. Longo;Rebecca Clausen;Brett Clark

  • Assessing the temporal stability of the population/environment relationship in comparative perspective: a cross-national panel study of carbon dioxide emissions, 1960–2005

    Andrew K. Jorgenson;Brett Clark

  • Militarization and Energy Consumption: A Test of Treadmill of Destruction Theory in Comparative Perspective

    Brett Clark;Andrew K. Jorgenson;Jeffrey Kentor

  • Cities, Slums, and Energy Consumption in Less Developed Countries, 1990 to 2005

    Andrew K. Jorgenson;James Rice;Brett Clark

  • Energy consumption and working hours: a longitudinal study of developed and developing nations, 1990–2008

    Jared B. Fitzgerald;Andrew K. Jorgenson;Brett Clark

  • The Indigenous Environmental Movement in the United States: Transcending Borders in Struggles against Mining, Manufacturing, and the Capitalist State

    Brett Clark

  • The Paradox of Wealth: Capitalism and Ecological Destruction

    John Bellamy Foster;Brett Clark

  • Ebenezer Howard And The Marriage Of Town And Country An Introduction to Howard's Garden Cities of To-morrow (Selections)

    Brett Clark

  • The Planetary Emergency

    John Bellamy Foster;Brett Clark

  • Ecological Imperialism: The Curse of Capitalism

    John Bellamy Foster;Brett Clark

  • Air quality and life expectancy in the United States: An analysis of the moderating effect of income inequality.

    Terrence D. Hill;Andrew K. Jorgenson;Peter Ore;Kelly S. Balistreri

  • Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis:

    Brett Clark;Daniel Auerbach

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard York
Richard York University of Oregon
Andrew K. Jorgenson
Andrew K. Jorgenson Boston College
Terrence D. Hill
Terrence D. Hill The University of Texas at San Antonio
Riley E. Dunlap
Riley E. Dunlap Oklahoma State University
Lennart Olsson
Lennart Olsson Lund University
Henry Bernstein
Henry Bernstein School of Oriental and African Studies
Juliet B. Schor
Juliet B. Schor Boston College
Giovanni Arrighi
Giovanni Arrighi Johns Hopkins University

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