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50
Citations
9966
World Ranking
2767
National Ranking
1340

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1997 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

William R. Freudenburg was affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the United States. Throughout their career, they contributed to scientific research, with a focus reflected in the available data.

The scientist was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1997. This honor acknowledges significant contributions to the advancement of science.

Best Publications

  • Addictive Economies: Extractive Industries and Vulnerable Localities in a Changing World Economy

    William R. Freudenburg

  • Risk and Recreancy: Weber, the Division of Labor, and the Rationality of Risk Perceptions

    William R. Freudenburg

  • The Density of Acquaintanceship: An Overlooked Variable in Community Research?

    William R. Freudenburg

  • Perceived risk, real risk: social science and the art of probabilistic risk assessment

    William R. Freudenburg

  • Ecological Modernization and Its Critics: Assessing the Past and Looking Toward the Future

    Dana R. Fisher;William R. Freudenburg

  • History Repeats Itself, but How? City Character, Urban Tradition, and the Accomplishment of Place

    Unknown

  • Beyond the Nature/Society Divide: Learning to Think About a Mountain

    William R. Freudenburg;Scott Frickel;Robert Gramling

  • From LTER to LTSER: Conceptualizing the Socioeconomic Dimension of Long-term Socioecological Research

    Helmut Haberl;Verena Winiwarter;Krister Andersson;Robert U. Ayres

  • Privileged Access, Privileged Accounts: Toward a Socially Structured Theory of Resources and Discourses

    William R. Freudenburg

  • NIMBYs and LULUs: Stalking the Syndromes

    William R. Freudenburg;Susan K. Pastor

  • Scientific Certainty Argumentation Methods (SCAMs): Science and the Politics of Doubt*

    William R. Freudenburg;Robert Gramling;Debra J. Davidson

  • Changing Public Policy: The Impact of Public Opinion, Antiwar Demonstrations, and War Costs on Senate Voting on Vietnam War Motions'

    Paul Burstein;William Freudenburg

  • Attitudes and Stress in the Presence of Technological Risk: A Test of the Supreme Court Hypothesis

    William R. Freudenburg;Timothy R. Jones

  • Public Responses to Technological Risks: Toward a Sociological Perspective

    William R. Freudenburg;Susan K. Pastor

  • BOOMTOWN'S YOUTH: THE DIFFERENTIAL IMPACTS OF RAPID COMMUNITY GROWTH ON ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS*

    William R. Freudenburg

  • Opportunity-Threat, Development, and Adaptation: Toward a Comprehensive Framework for Social Impact Assessment1

    Robert Gramling;William R. Freudenburg

  • Criminal Behavior and Rapid Community Growth: Examining the Evidence1

    William R. Freudenburg;Robert Emmett Jones

  • MEDIA COVERAGE OF HAZARD EVENTS : ANALYZING THE ASSUMPTIONS

    William R. Freudenburg;Cynthia-Lou Coleman;James Gonzales;Catherine Helgeland

  • Rural‐Urban Differences in Environmental Concern: A Closer Look*

    Unknown

  • Community Impacts of Technological Change: Toward a Longitudinal Perspective

    William R. Freudenburg;Robert Gramling

  • Global warming estimates, media expectations, and the asymmetry of scientific challenge

    William R. Freudenburg;Violetta Muselli

  • Privileged Access, Privileged Accounts: Toward a Socially Structured Theory of Resources and

    William R. Freudenburg

Frequent Co-Authors

Eugene A. Rosa
Eugene A. Rosa Washington State University
Baruch Fischhoff
Baruch Fischhoff Carnegie Mellon University
Thomas Webler
Thomas Webler Keene State College
Fridolin Krausmann
Fridolin Krausmann BOKU University
Harald G. Zechmeister
Harald G. Zechmeister University of Vienna
Anette Reenberg
Anette Reenberg University of Copenhagen
Charles L. Redman
Charles L. Redman Arizona State University

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