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Overview

Richard York is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Social Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main topics covered in Richard York's research include:

  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Climate Change and Geoengineering

Richard York has published in various academic journals with a notable presence in Energy Research & Social Science and Global Sustainability. Other venues of publication include Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, Heliyon, and Nature Climate Change. Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by York are:

  • The rebound effect and the challenge of moving beyond fossil fuels: A review of empirical and theoretical research, 2022, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • The ineffectiveness of efficiency: The paradoxical effects of state policy on energy consumption in the United States, 2020, Energy Research & Social Science
  • Four agendas for research and policy on emissions mitigation and well-being, 2020, Global Sustainability
  • When are fossil fuels displaced? An exploratory inquiry into the role of nuclear electricity production in the displacement of fossil fuels, 2022, Heliyon
  • Sociology for sustainability science, 2021, Discover Sustainability

Frequent collaborators in York's research include Stefano B. Longo, Brett Clark, Julius Alexander McGee, Thomas Dietz, and Lazarus Adua. These partnerships appear in several coauthored studies, reflecting a network of interdisciplinary academic influences.

Best Publications

  • STIRPAT, IPAT and ImPACT: analytic tools for unpacking the driving forces of environmental impacts

    Richard York;Eugene A Rosa;Thomas Dietz

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

    John Bellamy Foster;Brett Clark;Richard York

  • Footprints on the earth: the environmental consequences of modernity.

    Richard York;Eugene A. Rosa;Thomas Dietz

  • Key Challenges to Ecological Modernization Theory Institutional Efficacy, Case Study Evidence, Units of Analysis, and the Pace of Eco-Efficiency

    Richard York;Eugene A. Rosa

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

    Brett Clark;Richard York

  • Driving the human ecological footprint

    Thomas Dietz;Eugene A. Rosa;Richard York

  • THE GLOBALIZATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN AND THE LIMITS OF THE POSTMATERIALIST VALUES EXPLANATION: Evidence from Four Multinational Surveys

    Riley E. Dunlap;Richard York

  • Demographic trends and energy consumption in European Union Nations, 1960–2025

    Richard York

  • Community Economic Identity: The Coal Industry and Ideology Construction in West Virginia

    Shannon Elizabeth Bell;Richard York

  • Energy transitions or additions?: Why a transition from fossil fuels requires more than the growth of renewable energy

    Richard York;Shannon Elizabeth Bell

  • Do alternative energy sources displace fossil fuels

    Richard York

  • Tracking the anthropogenic drivers of ecological impacts.

    Eugene A. Rosa;Richard York;Thomas Dietz

  • Women's status and carbon dioxide emissions: A quantitative cross-national analysis.

    Christina Ergas;Richard F. York

  • A rift in modernity? assessing the anthropogenic sources of global climate change with the STIRPAT model

    Richard York;Eugene A. Rosa;Thomas Dietz

  • Social Structural Influences on Meat Consumption

    Marcia Hill Gossard;Richard York

  • Environmentally efficient weil-being: Rethinking sustainability as the relationship between human well-being and environmental impacts

    Thomas Dietz;Eugene A. Rosa;Richard York

  • Bridging Environmental Science with Environmental Policy: Plasticity of Population, Affluence, and Technology

    Richard York;Eugene A. Rosa;Thomas Dietz

  • Environmentally efficient well-being: Is there a Kuznets curve?

    Thomas Dietz;Eugene A. Rosa;Richard York

  • Gender Equality and State Environmentalism

    Kari Norgaard;Richard York

  • Ecological Paradoxes: William Stanley Jevons and the Paperless Office

    Richard York

Frequent Co-Authors

Brett Clark
Brett Clark University of Utah
Eugene A. Rosa
Eugene A. Rosa Washington State University
Thomas Dietz
Thomas Dietz Michigan State University
Andrew K. Jorgenson
Andrew K. Jorgenson Boston College
Juliet B. Schor
Juliet B. Schor Boston College
Klaus Hubacek
Klaus Hubacek University of Groningen
Riley E. Dunlap
Riley E. Dunlap Oklahoma State University
William Solecki
William Solecki City University of New York
Torben C. Rick
Torben C. Rick National Museum of Natural History
Thomas Rudel
Thomas Rudel Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research

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