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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
92
Citations
69174
World Ranking
155
National Ranking
73

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
85
Citations
69632
World Ranking
727
National Ranking
316

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1985 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Thomas Dietz is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research spans key topics in environmental science and social sciences, with a focus on interdisciplinary approaches to sustainability and climate change.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Social Sciences

Subfields of their work cover:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Key topics addressed in their research are:

  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
  • Climate Change and Geoengineering
  • Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Their recent publications include:

  • "Assessing progress towards sustainable development over space and time", 2020, Nature
  • "How psychology can help limit climate change.", 2020, American Psychologist
  • "The role of high-socioeconomic-status people in locking in or rapidly reducing energy-driven greenhouse gas emissions", 2021, Nature Energy
  • "Impacts of international trade on global sustainable development", 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • "Climate Change and Society", 2020, Annual Review of Sociology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Thomas Dietz include:

  • Paul C. Stern
  • Jianguo Liu
  • Kristian Steensen Nielsen
  • Kenneth A. Frank
  • Michael P. Vandenbergh

Their work is often published in venues such as:

  • Nature
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Sustainability
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Climatic Change

Among book contributions, Thomas Dietz has published with:

  • Cambridge University Press: "Decisions for Sustainability" (2023)
  • Mohr Siebeck eBooks: "Institutionen und Globalisierung" (2021)

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) twice, in 1985 and 1996.

Best Publications

  • The Struggle to Govern the Commons

    Thomas Dietz;Elinor Ostrom;Paul C. Stern

  • A Value-Belief-Norm Theory of Support for Social Movements: The Case of Environmentalism

    Paul C. Stern;Thomas Dietz;Troy D. Abel;Gregory A. Guagnano

  • Complexity of coupled human and natural systems

    Jianguo Liu;Thomas Dietz;Stephen R. Carpenter;Marina Alberti

  • Value Orientations, Gender, and Environmental Concern:

    Paul C. Stern;Thomas Dietz;Linda Kalof

  • The Value Basis of Environmental Concern

    Paul C. Stern;Thomas Dietz

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

    Richard York;Eugene A Rosa;Thomas Dietz

  • Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

    Stephen R. Carpenter;Harold A. Mooney;John Agard;Doris Capistrano

  • Effects of population and affluence on CO2 emissions

    Thomas Dietz;Eugene A. Rosa

  • Influences on Attitude-Behavior Relationships A Natural Experiment with Curbside Recycling

    Gregory A. Guagnano;Paul C. Stern;Thomas Dietz

  • Household actions can provide a behavioral wedge to rapidly reduce US carbon emissions

    Thomas Dietz;Gerald T. Gardner;Jonathan Gilligan;Paul C. Stern

  • Values, Beliefs, and Proenvironmental Action: Attitude Formation Toward Emergent Attitude Objects1

    Paul C. Stern;Linda Kalof;Thomas Dietz;Gregory A. Guagnano

  • The Drama of the Commons

    Elinor Ostrom;Thomas Dietz;Nives Dolšak;Paul C. Stern

  • The New Ecological Paradigm in Social-Psychological Context

    Paul C. Stern;Thomas Dietz;Gregory A. Guagnano

  • Social Structural and Social Psychological Bases of Environmental Concern

    Thomas Dietz;Paul C. Stern;Gregory A. Guagnano

  • Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making

    Thomas Dietz;Paul C. Stern

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

    Richard York;Eugene A. Rosa;Thomas Dietz

  • Coupled Human and Natural Systems

    Jianguo Liu;Thomas Dietz;Stephen R. Carpenter;Carl Folke

  • Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World

    Jianguo Liu;Vanessa Hull;Mateus Batistella;Ruth DeFries

  • Gender, values, and environmentalism

    Thomas Dietz;Linda Kalof;Paul C. Stern

  • Support for Climate Change Policy: Social Psychological and Social Structural Influences*

    Thomas Dietz;Amy Dan;Rachael Shwom

  • Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Research Needs

    Stephen R. Carpenter;Ruth DeFries;Thomas Dietz;Harold A. Mooney

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul C. Stern
Paul C. Stern Social and Environmental Research Institute
Eugene A. Rosa
Eugene A. Rosa Washington State University
Jianguo Liu
Jianguo Liu Michigan State University
Richard York
Richard York University of Oregon
Aaron M. McCright
Aaron M. McCright Michigan State University
Tom R. Burns
Tom R. Burns London Metropolitan University
Zhiyun Ouyang
Zhiyun Ouyang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Andrew K. Jorgenson
Andrew K. Jorgenson Boston College
Kenneth A. Frank
Kenneth A. Frank Michigan State University
Ruth S. DeFries
Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University

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