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J. Timmons Roberts

J. Timmons Roberts

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
61
Citations
19337
World Ranking
1328
National Ranking
618

Overview

J. Timmons Roberts is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and conducts research primarily in social sciences and environmental science. Their work spans multiple subfields including sociology and political science, global and planetary change, economics and econometrics, development, and demography.

Their recent publications cover diverse aspects of climate change and sustainability. Notable papers include:

  • "Discourses of climate delay" (2020), Global Sustainability
  • "Rebooting a failed promise of climate finance" (2021), Nature Climate Change
  • "Ethical choices behind quantifications of fair contributions under the Paris Agreement" (2021), Nature Climate Change
  • "Climate policy conflict in the U.S. states: a critical review and way forward" (2022), Climatic Change
  • "The unequal geographies of climate finance: Climate injustice and dependency in the world system" (2022), Political Geography

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors including Stacy-ann Robinson, Romain Weikmans, David Ciplet, Mizan R. Khan, and Danielle Falzon.

Research articles by J. Timmons Roberts and their collaborators commonly appear in journals such as Nature Climate Change, Energy Research & Social Science, Climatic Change, Global Sustainability, and Climate Policy.

The scientist's main areas of research focus on topics including sustainability and climate change governance, climate change policy and economics, climate change adaptation and migration, climate change communication and perception, international development and aid, disaster management and resilience, and social acceptance of renewable energy.

Best Publications

  • Climate Change, Deforestation, and the Fate of the Amazon

    Yadvinder Malhi;J. Timmons Roberts;Richard A. Betts;Timothy J. Killeen

  • A Climate of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy

    J. Timmons Roberts;Bradley C. Parks

  • More Dollars than Sense: Refining Our Knowledge of Development Finance Using AidData

    Michael J. Tierney;Daniel L. Nielson;Darren G. Hawkins;J. Timmons Roberts

  • Explaining differential vulnerability to climate change: A social science review

    Kimberley Thomas;R. Dean Hardy;Heather Lazrus;Michael Mendez

  • Carbon intensity and economic development 1962–1991: A brief exploration of the environmental Kuznets curve

    J.Timmons Roberts;Peter E Grimes

  • Targeting global conservation funding to limit immediate biodiversity declines

    Anthony Waldron;Anthony Waldron;Arne O. Mooers;Daniel C. Miller;Nate Nibbelink

  • Roadmap towards justice in urban climate adaptation research

    Linda Shi;Eric Chu;Isabelle Anguelovski;Alexander Aylett

  • Discourses of climate delay

    William F. Lamb;Giulio Mattioli;Sebastian Levi;J. Timmons Roberts

  • From constraint to sufficiency: The decoupling of energy and carbon from human needs, 1975–2005

    Julia K. Steinberger;J. Timmons Roberts

  • Reductions in global biodiversity loss predicted from conservation spending

    Anthony Waldron;Anthony Waldron;Daniel Charles Miller;Dave Redding;Arne Mooers

  • Reforming the CDM for sustainable development: lessons learned and policy futures.

    Emily Boyd;Emily Boyd;Nate Hultman;J. Timmons Roberts;Esteve Corbera

  • Greening Aid?: Understanding the Environmental Impact of Development Assistance

    Robert L. Hicks;Bradley C. Parks;J. Timmons Roberts;Michael J. Tierney

  • Why equity is fundamental in climate change policy research

    Sonja Klinsky;J. Timmons Roberts;Saleemul Huq;Chukwumerije Okereke

  • Ecologically Unequal Exchange, Ecological Debt, and Climate Justice: The History and Implications of Three Related Ideas for a New Social Movement

    J. Timmons Roberts;Bradley C. Parks

  • Opinion: Why green “climate gentrification” threatens poor and vulnerable populations

    Isabelle Anguelovski;James J. T. Connolly;Hamil Pearsall;Galia Shokry

  • Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline

    J. Timmons Roberts;Melissa M. Toffolon-Weiss

  • Pathways of human development and carbon emissions embodied in trade

    Julia K. Steinberger;Julia K. Steinberger;J. Timmons Roberts;Glen P. Peters;Giovanni Baiocchi

  • Compulsory Voting, Invalid Ballots, and Abstention in Brazil:

    Timothy J. Power;J. Timmons Roberts

  • Who Ratifies Environmental Treaties and Why? Institutionalism, Structuralism and Participation by 192 Nations in 22 Treaties

    J. Timmons Roberts;Bradley C. Parks;Alexis A. Vasquez

  • Climate Change, Social Theory and Justice

    Bradley C. Parks;J. Timmons Roberts

  • Power in a Warming World: The New Global Politics of Climate Change and the Remaking of Environmental Inequality

    David Ciplet;J. Timmons Roberts;Mizan R. Khan

Frequent Co-Authors

Saleemul Huq
Saleemul Huq Independent University
Julia K. Steinberger
Julia K. Steinberger University of Lausanne
Peter A. Singer
Peter A. Singer National University of Singapore
Diana Liverman
Diana Liverman University of Arizona
Isabelle Anguelovski
Isabelle Anguelovski Autonomous University of Barcelona
Harald Winkler
Harald Winkler University of Cape Town
Emily Boyd
Emily Boyd Lund University
Richard Betts
Richard Betts University of Exeter
Karen C. Seto
Karen C. Seto Yale University
Thomas Rudel
Thomas Rudel Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research

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