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43
Citations
10311
World Ranking
4331
National Ranking
2071

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Lawrence Busch was affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their academic work spanned multiple topics within sociology, agriculture, and environmental studies, with a focus on the intersections between social and biophysical systems.

Their research included contributions in the following areas:

  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • French Urban and Social Studies
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development

Busch's work engaged subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The scientist's recent publications were primarily featured in the International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food and The MIT Press eBooks. Key papers included:

  • Climate Change: How Debates over Standards Shape the Biophysical, Social, Political and Economic Climate (2020), International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
  • Manufacturing Plants: Notes on the Culture of Nature and the Nature of Culture (2021), International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
  • Metatheories and Better Theories: A Reply to Ruttan (2021), International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
  • Index (2021), The MIT Press eBooks

Frequent co-authors in their publications included Lauren Berlant, S. G. Browne, and Judith Butler.

During their career, Busch was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1993.

Best Publications

  • Third-party certification in the global agrifood system

    Maki Hatanaka;Carmen Bain;Lawrence Busch

  • Standards: Recipes for Reality

    Lawrence Busch

  • Global Change in Agrifood Grades and Standards: Agribusiness Strategic Responses in Developing Countries

    Thomas Reardon;Jean-Marie Codron;Lawrence Busch;R. James Bingen

  • New! Improved? The Transformation of the Global Agrifood System*

    Lawrence Busch;Carmen Bain

  • The moral economy of grades and standards

    Lawrence Busch

  • Science, agriculture, and the politics of research

    Lawrence M Busch;William B Lacy

  • Plants, Power, and Profit: Social, Economic and Ethical Consequences of the New Biotechnologies

    Lawrence Busch;William B. Lacy;Jeffrey Burkhardt;Laura R. Lacy

  • Adjudicating the GM Food Wars: Science, Risk, and Democracy in World Trade Law.

    David Winickoff;Sheila Jasanoff;Lawrence Busch;Robin Grove-White

  • Third-Party Certification in the Global Agrifood System: An Objective or Socially Mediated Governance Mechanism?

    Maki Hatanaka;Lawrence Busch

  • From Columbus to ConAgra: The Globalization of Agriculture and Food

    Eileen Berry;Alessandro Bonanno;Lawrence Busch;William H. Friedland

  • Beyond political economy: actor networks and the globalization of agriculture

    Lawrence Busch;Arunas Juska

  • Standards, techno-economic networks, and playing fields: Performing the global market economy

    Allison Loconto;Lawrence Busch

  • WHAT WE NOW KNOW ABOUT “I DON'T KNOWS”

    Joe D. Francis;Lawrence Busch

  • Performing the economy, performing science: from neoclassical to supply chain models in the agrifood sector

    Lawrence Busch

  • Can Fairy Tales Come True? The Surprising Story of Neoliberalism and World Agriculture

    Lawrence Busch

  • Towards A New Political Economy Of Agriculture

    William H. Friedland;Lawrence Busch;Frederick H. Buttel;Alan P. Rudy

  • Bioenergy futures: framing sociotechnical imaginaries in local places.

    Weston M. Eaton;Stephen P. Gasteyer;Lawrence Busch

  • Seeds of Change: Intellectual Property Rights, Genetically Modified Soybeans and Seed Saving in the United States

    Michael Mascarenhas;Lawrence Busch

  • The Eclipse of Morality: Science, State, and Market

    Lawrence Busch

  • Inquiry for the public good: Democratic participation in agricultural research

    Gerad Middendorf;Lawrence Busch

  • Food Security In The United States

    Lawrence Busch;William B. Lacy

  • From Columbus to ConAgra: The Globalization of Agriculture and Food.

    Michael Woolcock;Alessandro Bonanno;Lawrence Busch;William H. Friedland

  • Science, Agriculture, and the Politics of Research

    Gale L. Wolters;Lawrence Busch;William B. Lacy

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul M. Thompson
Paul M. Thompson University of Southern California
Brian Wynne
Brian Wynne Lancaster University
Edmond A. Pajor
Edmond A. Pajor University of Calgary
Geoffrey Lawrence
Geoffrey Lawrence University of Queensland
Sheila Jasanoff
Sheila Jasanoff Harvard University
Philip McMichael
Philip McMichael Cornell University

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