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J. Timmons Roberts
jtrobphotoChancellor Professor of Sociology

Researcher, Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations

The College of William and Mary

Williamsburg  Virginia   23187 USA

jtrobe@wm.edu;  http://faculty.wm.edu/jtrobe

Born: February 3, 1961

William and Mary Environmental Programs: www.wm.edu/environment

                        Project-Level Aid (PLAID) project website: http://www.wm.edu/irtheoryandpractice/plaid/

 

EDUCATION:

 

1983    B.A. Kenyon College (Highest Honors in Biology, Phi Beta Kappa).

1989    M.A. The Johns Hopkins University (Sociology).

1992    Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University  (Department of Sociology/Program in Comparative International Development).

 

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: 

 

          Climate Change, Environmental Sociology; Globalization, Development and Social Change; Latin America and Globalization; Economic and Environmental Change

          Research Methods; Environmental Governance and Policy; Environmental Justice;      

 

TEACHING AND PROGRAM ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:

 

          2001-2008                   Director of the Program in Environmental Science and Policy, The College of William and Mary (Acting Director 2007-2008; on leave 2006-2007)

 

          2006-                           James Martin 21st Century Professor, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University (Research and graduate teaching fellowship—taught MSc option course and core lectures).  One year sabbatical fellowship (2006-2007) and ongoing affiliation for research collaboration.

 

          2001-                           Professor of Sociology, The College of William and Mary

 

1997-2001                            Associate Professor, Tulane University. Joint appointment in Sociology and Latin American Studies

 

1999-2001                             Director of Environmental Studies, Tulane University

 

          1998-2000                   Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, Tulane

 

          1991-1997                   Assistant Professor, Tulane University Program in Latin American Studies, Environmental Studies, and Sociology

 

1990-1991                   Lecturer (Adjunct Professor), Greensboro College, Greensboro, North Carolina, [while completing dissertation] 

 

 

BOOKS: (Student and former student coauthors are noted with an asterisk)

 

2008.  Greening Aid?  Explaining Environmental Foreign Assistance.  Robert Hicks, Bradley Parks*, J. Timmons Roberts, and Michael Tierney. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

2007   A Climate Of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy. J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley Parks*. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

 

2007 The Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Social Change (Second Edition).  J. Timmons Roberts and Amy Hite*.  London: Blackwell Publishers.

 

2003   Trouble in Paradise: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America.   J.

Timmons Roberts and Nikki Thanos*.  London: Routledge publishers.

 

2001  Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline. J. Timmons Roberts and Melissa Toffolon-Weiss*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

 

2000  From Modernization to Globalization: Perspectives on Development and Social Change.  J. Timmons Roberts and Amy Hite*.  London: Blackwell Publishers.

 

 

SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS EDITED:

 

2008  Malhi, Y., Betts, R. and Roberts, T. (Editors) ‘Climate change and the fate of the Amazon’ compiled by Yadvinder Malhi, Richard Betts and Timmons Roberts. Special Issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Vol. 363, No. 1498 / May 27 2008: p. 1727-1932 (27 articles).

 

 

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS: (Student and former student coauthors are noted with an asterisk)

 

2009    “Is Aid Being Greened?” Environment.  J. Timmons Roberts, Bradley C. Parks, Michael Tierney, and Robert Hicks.  Forthcoming

 

2009    “A Battle Against the Bottles: Building, Claiming, and Regaining Tap Water Trustworthiness.”  Yael Parag and J. Timmons Roberts, under review at Society and Natural Resources, Forthcoming.

 

2008    “How can the Clean Development Mechanism better contribute to sustainable development?” Nathan E. Hultman, Emily Boyd, J. Timmons Roberts, John Cole, Esteve Corbera, Johannes Ebeling, Katrina Brown, and Diana M. Liverman.  Ambio, Forthcoming.

 

2008    “Inequality and the Global Climate Regime: Breaking the North-South Impasse.”  Bradley C. Parks* and J. Timmons Roberts.  Forthcoming in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs Vol. 21 No. 4 (December) special issue on climate change.

 

2008      “Commentary: Challenges and Opportunities for Global Environmental Governance in the 21st Century.”  J. Timmons Roberts. Global Environmental Change Vol. 18, No. 3, September 2008: 1-5.

 

2008      “Climate Change, Deforestation, and the Fate of the Amazon.”  Yadvinder Malhi, J. Timmons Roberts, Richard A. Betts, Timothy Killeen, Wenhong Li, and Carlos A. Nobre.  Science Vol. 319: 169-172. 11 January 2008. Released on Science Express 22 November 2007.

 

2008      “Grandfathering, Carbon Intensity, Historical Responsibility, or Contract/Converge?” J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley C. Parks*.  P. 158-178 in Steven Berntein, Jutta Brunnee, David G. Duff, and Andrew J. Green.  A Globally Integrated Climate Policy for Canada.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press. [Chapter in edited volume, invited, not peer-reviewed]

 

2008    “Environmental Policymaking Networks  and the Future of the Amazon.”  Maria Carmen Lemos and J. Timmons Roberts. Philosophical Transactions of the Academy of the Royal Society. Volume 363, Number 1498 / May 27, 2008: p. 1897-1902.

 

2008  “The Future of the Amazon: New Perspectives from Climate, Ecosystem and Social Sciences.”  Richard Betts, Yadvinder Malhi, and J. Timmons Roberts.  Philosophical Transactions of the Academy of the Royal Society Volume 363, Number 1498 / May 27 2008: p. 1729-1735.

 

2008  “Preface to Special Issue on Climate Change and the Fate of the Amazon.” Yadvinder Malhi, J. Timmons Roberts, and Richard Betts.  Philosophical Transactions of the Academy of the Royal Society Volume 363, Number 1498 / May 27 2008.

 

2008    “Climate Change: Why the Old Approaches Aren’t Working.”  In Twenty Lectures in Environmental Sociology. In Kenneth Gould and Tammy Lewis, editors. Oxford University Press, Forthcoming 2008 [Chapter in edited volume, invited, not peer-reviewed]

 

2007    “Globalization: The Environment and Development Debate.”  Pp. 3-18 in The Politics of the Environment (Routledge Europa), Chuks Okereke editor.  [Chapter in edited volume, invited, not peer-reviewed]

 

2007   “Fueling Injustice: Globalization, the Ecological Debt, and Confronting Responsibility for Climate Change.”  J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley C. Parks*.  Globalizations Vol 4 No. 1;

>        Reprinted in edited book published in spring 2007 in Routledge series “Rethinking Globalizations.”

 

2007  “Urgent But Uncertain: The Dilemmas for Climate Change, Development, Adaptation and Justice for Development and Humanitarian Work.”  Monday Developments: The Latest Issues and Trends in International Development and Humanitarian Assistance.  August, 2007: p.10-11. [Specialty magazine article, not peer-reviewed]

 

2006.  “Globalization, Vulnerability to Climate Change, and Perceived Injustice in the South.”  Bradley C. Parks* and J. Timmons Roberts. Society and Natural Resources. 19 (4): 337-355, April, 2006.

 

2006.  “Globalizing Environmental Justice: Trend and Imperative.” J. Timmons Roberts. In Ronald Sandler  and Phaedra C. Pezzullo (Eds.) Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement.  MIT Press, November, 2006. [Chapter in edited volume, peer-reviewed]

 

2005.  “Environmental and Ecological Justice.”  J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley C. Parks*.  In Michele M. Betsill, Kathryn Hochstetler and Dimitris Stevis Palgrave Advances in International Environmental Politics.  Palgrave. [Chapter in edited volume, peer-reviewed]

 

2005.  “Who Wins, Who Loses? Understanding Outcomes of Environmental Injustice Struggles.” J. Timmons Roberts and M. Toffolon-Weiss*.  In David N. Pellow and Robert J. Brulle, eds. Power, Justice and the Environment: A Critical Reappraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement. MIT Press. [Chapter in edited volume, peer-reviewed]

 

2004.  “Who Signs Environmental Treaties and Why?  Institutionalism, Structuralism and Participation by 192 Nations in 22 Treaties.”  J. Timmons Roberts, Bradley C. Parks* and Alexis Vasquez*.  Global Environmental Politics 4:3: 22-64.  

 

2004. "Workplace Hazards, Unions And Coping Styles.” John E. Baugher* and J. Timmons Roberts.  Labor Studies Journal. Vol. 29, No. 2.  p. 83-106. 

 

2004.  “Toxic Torts, Public Interest Law and Environmental Justice: Evidence from Louisiana.  Melissa M. Toffolon-Weiss* and J. Timmons Roberts.  Law and Policy Vol. 26 No. 2. p. 259-287.

 

2004.  “Environment and Vulnerability in Latin America and the Caribbean: Our Shared Responsibility in a Globalized World.”  Catholic Institute for International Relations (CIIR) Comment Series, Summer 2004.  J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley C. Parks*.  [not peer-reviewed]

 

2004.  “Blue-Green Coalitions: Constraints and Possibilities in the Post 9-11 Political Environment.” Kenneth Gould, Tammy Lewis and J. Timmons Roberts.  Journal of World-System Research. Vol. X, No. 1.  p. 90-116.

 

2003.  “Fear at Work, Fear at Home: Surveying the New Geography of Dread in America Post 9-11.”  J. Timmons Roberts and Moona Em*.  International Journal of Mass Emergency and Disaster Research.  Vol. 21, No. 3, p 41-55.

 

2003.  “Social Roots Of Global Environmental Change: A World‑Systems Analysis Of Carbon Dioxide Emissions.”  J. Timmons Roberts, Peter E. Grimes, and Jodie Manale*.  Journal of World-System Research Vol. IX, No. 2,   July, 2003.

 

<          Reprinted in Andrew Jorgenson and Edward Lee Kick (Editors) Globalization and the Environment. Brill Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 2006.

 

2002   "World-System Theory and the Environment: Toward a New Synthesis."  J. Timmons Roberts and Peter E. Grimes.  in Sociological Theory and the Environment: Classical Foundations, Contemporary Insights.  Edited by Riley E. Dunlap, Fredrick H. Buttel, Peter Dickens, and August Gijswijt.  Lanham: Roman and Littlefield Publishers. [Chapter in edited volume, peer-reviewed]

 

2002  “Explaining Outcomes of Environmental Injustice Struggles: A Framework and Evidence from Louisiana." J. Timmons Roberts and Melissa M. Toffolon-Weiss*.  In Henri Acselrad and Selene Herculano (eds.) Justiça Ambiental, Trabalho e Cidadania.  Volume funded by the Ford Foundation. [Chapter in edited volume, peer-reviewed]

 

2001   “Global Inequality and Climate Change.”  Society and Natural Resources. Vol. 14, No. 6, p. 501-509

 

<  Reprinted in Environment, Energy, and Society: Exemplary Works. Craig R. Humphrey, Tammy L. Lewis, and Frederick H. Buttel.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Sociology Reader Series. 2003.  

 

2001   “North American Conceptions of Environmental Justice.” Wilson Madeira Filho (ed.) "Direito e Justiça Ambiental".  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: UFF - Universidade Federal Fluminense. [Chapter in non-peer reviewed edited volume]

 

2000  “Entrevista: Timmons Roberts.”  Jornal Segurança & Saúde no Trabalho.  Ano 5, No. 52, December, 2000.  P. 6-7. [non-peer reviewed]

 

2000  “Towards a Sociology of Brownfields: An Interview with David Pellow.”  Environment, Technology and Society, No. 97, Spring 2000.  p. 1, 4-5. [not peer reviewed]

 

1999  ”Perceptions and Worry about Hazards at Work: Unions, Contract Maintenance, and Job Control in the U.S. Petrochemical Industry.”  John E. Baugher* and J. Timmons Roberts.  Industrial Relations Vol. 38 No. 4: 522-541.

 

1999  "Extending the World-system to the Whole System: Towards a Political Economy of the Biosphere.”  J. Timmons Roberts and Peter E. Grimes.  P. 59-83 in The Global Environment and the World-System.  Greenwood Press.  Walter Goldfrank, David Goodman, and Andrew Szasz, editors. [Chapter in edited volume, peer-reveiewed]

 

1998   "The Social Context of Democracy in Brazil." Timothy J. Power and J.Timmons Roberts.  In Peter Kingstone and Timothy J. Power (eds.), Democratic Brazil, University of Pittsburgh Press. [Chapter in edited volume, peer-reviewed]

 

<        Reprinted as “Low-Intensity Democracy” at http://www.bestofbrazil.com

 

1998  “Reply to McNaughton and Lee.”  J. Timmons Roberts and Peter Grimes. World Development. Vol. 26, No. 12: 2221.  December.

 

1998  "Emerging Global Environmental Standards: Prospects and Perils." J. Timmons Roberts.  Journal of Developing Societies Vol XIV-fasc. 1: 144-165. 

 

<            Reprinted in Proshanta K. Nandi and Shahid M. Shahidullah.  Globalization and the Evolving World Society.  Leiden: Brill.  1998

 

1998  "Latin American Environmentalism: Comparative Views." Christen, Catherine, Selene Herculano, Kathryn Hochstetler, Renae Prell, Marie Price, and J. Timmons Roberts. Studies in Comparative International Development Vol. 33, No. 2: 58-87.

 

1998  "Fear of Crime and Collective Action: An Analysis of Coping Strategies."  Lesley Williams Reid*, J. Timmons Roberts and Heather Munro Hilliard*.  Sociological Inquiry 68(3): 312-328.

 

1997  “Negotiating Both Sides of the Plant Gate: Hazardous Facility Workers and Community Responses to Hazards." Current Sociology (1997) Vol. 45 No. 3: 157-177.

 

1997  "Carbon Intensity and Economic Development 1962-1991: A Brief Exploration of the Environmental Kuznets Curve."  J. Timmons Roberts and Peter E. Grimes.  World Development Vol. 25, No. 2: 181-187.

 

1997  “The Military-Industrial-Media Complex: Old Biases, New Linkages.”  P. 45-54 in The Gulf War as Popular Entertainment: An Analysis of the Military-Industrial Media Complex.  Edited by Paul Leslie.  Symposium Series Vol. 42, Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press. [Chapter in edited volume, non-peer reviewed]

 

1996  "Global Restructuring and the Environment in Latin America."  Pp. 187-210 in Latin America in the World Economy, Edited by Roberto P. Korzeniewicz and William C. Smith, Greenwood Press. [Chapter in edited volume, peer-reviewed]

 

1996  "Predicting Participation in Environmental Treaties: A World-System Analysis."  Sociological Inquiry, Vol. 66, No.1, pp. 38-57.

 

1995  "Perceived Work Hazards and Job Strain in Eleven Nations"  J. Timmons Roberts and John E. Baugher*.   International Journal of Contemporary Sociology Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 235-249.

 

1995  "Expansion of Television in Eastern Amazonia."  Geographical Review Vol. 85, No. 1, pp. 41--49.

 

1995  "Trickling-Down and Scrambling-Up: Informal Sectors and Local Benefits of a Mining 'Growth Pole' in the Brazilian Amazon."  World Development, Vol. 23 No. 3, pp. 385-400.

 

<            Translated into Spanish as “Sector Informal y Derrama Economica a Nivel Local en un Megaproyecto de Desarrollo Minero en Brasil.”  Translation by Victor Hugo Martinez-Escamilla and Marianna Pool.  Sociologica Vol. 13, No. 37: 99-124.

 

1995  "Subcontracting and the Omitted Social Impacts of Development Projects: Household Survival at the Carajás Mines in the Brazilian Amazon."  Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 43 No. 4, pp. 735-58.

 

1995 "Compulsory Voting, Invalid Ballots, and Abstention in Brazil."  Timothy J. Power and J. Timmons Roberts.  Political Research Quarterly Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 795-826. 

 

<            Translated into Portuguese as “Voto Obrigatorio, Votos Invalidos e Abstencionismo no Brasil”.  Estudos Eleitorais Vol 1, No. 3: 161-196. 1998.

 

1995  "Population Growth, Sex Ratio and Women's Work on the Contemporary Amazon Frontier."  J. Timmons Roberts and F. Nai-Amoo Dodoo.  1995 Yearbook of the Conference of Latin American Geographers, pp. 91-105.

 

1993  "Psychosocial Effects of Workplace Hazardous Exposures: Theoretical Synthesis and Preliminary Findings."  Social Problems Vol. 40, pp. 74-89, March, 1993.

 

1993  "Power and Placenames: A Case Study from the Contemporary Amazon Frontier."  Names Vol. 41 No. 3, pp. 159-181, September, 1993.

 

1992   "Squatters and Amazon Urban Growth."  The Geographical Review. Vol. 82 No. 4, pp. 441-457. February, 1992.

 

1992  "Crisis and Environment [Features: Brazil]."  Hemisphere: A Magazine of Latin American and Caribbean Affairs. 6(1): 26-30.  1992. [not peer reviewed]

 

 

PEDAGOGICAL NOTES:

 

2007   “Saving the Earth One Place at a Time: Working for Change in Local Government.”  Commissioned piece for Annenberg Foundation citizenship education curriculum guide.

 

2003   “Globalization and the Environment” syllabus and supporting materials published in Rik Scarce and Michael Mascarenhas, editors.  Syllabi and Instructional Material in Environmental Sociology.  5th Edition.  Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.  2003.  

 

1999  “Mobilizing Environmental Sociology Classes in Collective Projects.”  Environment, Technology and Society No. 89, Spring, 1999, p. 1-4.  This note is also available through the section webpage at Communications for a Sustainable Future. http://csf.colorado.edu/envtecsoc/etwjtr.htm

 

1997   "Environmental Sociology."  Syllabus and introductory statement.  In "Teaching Political Ecology" section of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism  (Vol. 8), 1997.  Also available through the Center for Political Ecology's "Clearinghouse on Political Ecology" on its World Wide Web page.

 

1996   "Classroom Simulations of Environmental Conflicts--A Pedagogical Note."  Environment, Technology and Society No. 82, Summer 1996, p. 1-4.  This note is also available through the Center for Political Ecology's "Clearinghouse on Political Ecology" on its World Wide Web page, and is forthcoming in the Environmental Justice Teaching Resource Guidebook, Robert Bullard, ed.

 

1997, 1999    Syllabi published in American Sociological Association Curriculum Resource Center’s 1999 Environmental Sociology volume, 1997 Internationalizing Sociology volume.

 

RECENT RESEARCH REPORTS:

 

2007  “The Clean Development Mechanism: As Assessment of Current Practice and Future Approaches for Policy.” Emily Boyd, Nathan E. Hultman, J. Timmons Roberts, Esteve Corbera, (Contributing authors: Johannes Eberling, Diana M. Liverman, Kate Brown, Robert Tippmann, John Cole, Phil Mann, Marius Kaiser, Mike Robbins, Adam Bumpus, Allen Shaw, Educardo Ferreira, Alex Bozmoski, Chris Villiers and Jonathan Avis.)  Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research/Oxford University Environmental Change Institute Working Paper 114.

 

2007 “The Media and Climate Change Aid.”  (Maxwell Boykoff and J. Timmons Roberts), background paper commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme for Human Development Report 2007.

   

BOOK REVIEWS:

 

2007 Review of Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action.  Edited by Leslie King and Deborah McCarthy. (2005.  Roman and Littlefield). Contemporary Sociology, September, 2007

 

2007 Review of A. Hall (ed.) "Global Impact, Local Action. New Environmental Policy in Latin America", (Inst. For the Study of the Americas 2005), Forthcoming in E.I.A.L (Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe) Instituto de Historia y Cultura de America Latina.

 

2001 Review of Exporting Environmentalism: U.S. Multinational Chemical Corporations in Brazil and Mexico, by Ronie Garcia-Johnson (MIT Press, 2000).  Society and Natural Resources.  Forthcoming.

 

1999 Review of The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice, by Christopher H. Foreman, Jr. (Brookings Institution Press, 1998).  Organization and Environment, 12(2): 225-228.  Melissa M. Toffolon-Weiss and J. Timmons Roberts.

 

1998 Review of Understanding Globalization: The Social Consequences of Political, Economic, and Environmental Change, by Robert K. Shaeffer (Roman and Littlefield, 1997).  Contemporary Sociology 27(6): 596-597.

 

1995   Review of Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism.  Edited by Gary Gereffi and Miguel Korzeniewicz (Praeger, 1994).  Social Forces Vol. 73, pp. 1170-1.

 

1995  Review of Asia's Environmental Crisis. Edited by Michael C. Howard (Boulder: Westview Press, 1993).  Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 211-212.

 

1995  Review of: The State of Nature: Ecology, Community and American Social Thought by Gregg Mitman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).  Society and Natural Resources  Vol. 7, p. 267-269, 1995.

 

1992  Review of: Virtual Reality, by Howard Reingold.  American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 98 No. 3, Nov. 1992.

 

 

ENCYCLOPEDIA/REFERENCE VOLUME ENTRIES:

 

2000   “Brazil: Sociology” section of the Library of Congress’ Handbook of Latin American Studies, 2000.  With Joyce Baugher.  Austin: University of Texas Press.

 

2000  "Environmental Issues."  Major Entry for the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures.  Routledge.

 

2000  "Environmental Concern and Activism." Major Entry for the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures.  Routledge.

 

 

STUDENT/FACULTY RESEARCH REPORTS:

 

Environmental Science and Policy students supervised by J. Timmons Roberts and 11 other faculty in producing the Campus Sustainability Road Map.  June, 2008. http://greeningwm.com/campus_sustainability_roadmap.pdf

 

J. Timmons Roberts and Environmental Sociology Class.  2006.  Green=Gold? Energy Audit of The College of William and Mary.  

 

J. Timmons Roberts and Environmental Sociology Class.  2005.  The Williamsburg Accessibility Project.  Pdf file available online at http://faculty.wm.edu.

Feldbaum, Maureen, Melanie Marzolf, and Timmons Roberts. 2002.  Development and Watersheds in Greater Williamsburg: A Guide for Citizens and Students.  Pdf. File available online at http://faculty.wm.edu/jtrobe.

J. Timmons Roberts and Research Methods Class.  2002.  "What We Feared: A New Geography of Fear in America Post 9-11"  Available online at http://jtrobe.people.wm.edu/What_We_Feared_v1.htm.

J. Timmons Roberts and Research Methods Class.  2002.  Newly Hazardous Jobs” In A Changed America: Major Findings from the Work and Change in America Research Project.

J. Timmons Roberts and Environmental Sociology Class.  2002.  “Greening the Green and Gold: 2002 Environmental Assessment of the College of William and Mary.”  

ARTICLES, CHAPTERS AND BOOKS UNDER REVIEW AND IN REVISION: 

 

1.      “Social Development Aspects of Kyoto Protocol Clean Development Mechanism Projects: A Review of Six Hydroelectricity Projects in Brazil and Peru.”  John C. Cole and J. Timmons Roberts.  Submitted August 2007 to Climate Policy.

 

2.     Emily Boyd, Nathan E. Hultman, Timmons Roberts, John C. Cole, Esteve Corbera, Johannes Eberling, Katrina Brown and Diana Liverman.  “Governing CDM for Sustainable Development: Lessons Learned and Future Prospects.”  Revise and Resubmit to Environmental Science and Policy August, 2008.

 

3.     “The Falling Energy Consumption and Carbon Emissions Required for Global Human Development.”  Julia K. Steinberger and J. Timmons Roberts.  Under review at Global Environmental Change.

 

4.     “Understanding Vulnerability to Disasters: A Cross-National Analysis of 4,040 Climate-Related Disasters.  Bradley C. Parks* and J. Timmons Roberts.  Revise and Resubmit at American Sociological Review, being revised.

 

5.     Forging New Alliances? Labor-Environmentalist Coalitions in an Age of Globalization.  Kenneth Gould, Tammy Lewis, J. Timmons Roberts. In revision.

 

6.     Sustainability and Unsustainability on the Road from Rio: Global Dialogues and Latin American Perspectives.  J. Timmons Roberts, Eduardo Viola, Frederick Buttel, and Amy Hite (eds.).  In revision.

 

 

RESEARCH SUPPORT FROM NON-UNIVERSITY SOURCES:

 

2008-2010       Co-Principal Investigator, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grant to the Project-Level Aid Research Project, awarded August, 2008. $1.44 million. 

 

2008-2009       Co-Principal Investigator, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Grant to the Project-Level Aid Research Project, awarded May, 2008.  $500,000

 

2008-2011       Program Director, Mellon Foundation Grant for the Creation of Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellowships in Environmental Science and Policy, and the Creation of a Center for Geospatial Analysis at the College of William and Mary.  $1.5 million

 

2006-2007       James Martin 21st Century Professor, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University.  Office, travel, research, conference organizing, and living support totaling over $40,000.

 

2005-2008       Director and Lead Writer, Renewal Grant from Mellon Foundation “Enhancing Undergraduate Environmental Science and Policy at the College of William and Mary.”  $300,000 ($530,000 in institutional match).

 

2005-2008       Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Political Science Program Research Grant: “Collaborative Research: Analyzing Development Finance Using PLAID Data” [Project-Level Aid].  Michael Tierney, PI.  Total Costs: $253,000.

 

2003-2006       Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program.  “Interdisciplinary Watershed Studies,” P.I. Randy Chambers, Director of the Keck Environmental Field Laboratory.  Total costs: $200,621.

 

2002-2003       Co-Principal Investigator, Virginia Environmental Endowment. “Environmental Impacts of Development in Southeastern Virginia Watersheds: Interdisciplinary Measurement and Analysis.”  Total Costs: $25,944 plus $25,977 matching grant.

 

1993-1995       Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Sociology Program Grant: "Social Roots of Environmental Damage: A World-Systems Analysis of Global Warming and Deforestation."  Total costs: $140,438.

 

1993-1994       Principal Investigator, Department of Energy Grant: "Risk, Stress and Restructuring in the U.S. Petrochemical Industry: A Case Study from Louisiana."  (Administered through Tulane/Xavier Consortium). Total costs: $38,892.

 

‘92, '93, '97,‘00           Research Fellow, Mellon/Tinker Foundations/Tulane Latin American Studies.  Summer research grants for research in Brazil, $4000 each.

 

1989-1990       Fulbright Commission Doctoral Research Fellow, Grant Total: $14,000.

 

 

OTHER HONORS:

          2008               Fred Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award, the Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association

          2001               Graduate Student Association “Teacher of the Year” Award, Department of Sociology, Tulane

          2001               Latin American Studies Graduate Student Association Teaching Award

2000                   Presidential Certificate in Undergraduate Teaching in recognition of the Service Learning Teaching Award

2000, 2001     Mortar Board (Alpha Sigma Sigma Chapter) Award for Outstanding Teaching, Newcomb College

1999                The Tulane College Senior Class Outstanding Advisor Award for Exemplary Service to Students

1993, 1996      Nominated for the Tulane Graduate School Student Association Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching

1986-1991       The Johns Hopkins University Faculty of Arts and Sciences University Graduate Fellowship

1986                Earthwatch Foundation Teacher Expedition Fellow

1983                Nominated to Sigma Xi, scientific research honorary

1983                Highest Honors for Research, Kenyon College

1982                M.P. Elliot Prize, Kenyon College

 

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED:

 

2010  Organizer, “What is Going On With Aid?  Insights from a New Generation of Aid Information.”  University College, Oxford University, Sept. 16-18.  Co-sponsored with the Global Economic Governance Program, Oxford University [in final confirmation stages].

 

2007, 2008, 2009 Co-organizer of all section sessions for the Environment and Technology Section, American Sociological Association annual meetings, August (Duty as Chair Elect and Chair of the section; total 9 sessions).

 

2007 Co-organizer, “Climate Change and Development in Africa.”  Centre for the Environment, University of Oxford, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.  March 12, 2007, with Henny Osbaugh.

 

2007  Co-organizer, “Climate Change and the Fate of the Amazon.”  Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, James Martin 21st Century School, Oriel College, Met Office.  March 20-22, 2007.

 

2006-2007     Co-organizer, “Climate Change and the Future: A Forum for Research in Progress.”  Seminar series, Environmental Change Institute, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, and James Martin 21st Century School, Oxford University.15 speakers.

 

2004  Environment Track (9 sessions), “Latin American Studies Association” XXV International Conference, Las Vegas, October 7-9, 2004 (Track Chair).

 

2001   “Globalization and the Environment.”  Miniconference co-sponsored by the Political Economy of the World System and Environment and Technology sections of the American Sociological Association. Anaheim, California, August 17, 2001.  (co-organized with Paul Gellert, Cornell University).

 

2001  Environment Track (17 sessions), “Latin American Studies Association” XXIII International Conference, Washington DC, September 6-8, 2001. (Track Chair)

 

2000  “Sociological Reflections on Sustainability.”  International Sociological Association, Research Committee 24, conference on environmental policy, Rio de Janeiro, August 1-3, 2000 (co-organized with Eduardo Viola, University of Brasilia, Fredrick Buttel, University of Wisconsin, and an international organizing committee).

 

1999  “Poverty, Disasters and the Environment in Latin America.”  Neotropical Ecology Institute, Tulane University, April 9 and 10, 1999.

 

 

PAPERS READ AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES: (Student Coauthors are noted with an asterisk)

 

2009 “Addressing Real Needs or Greasing Political Skids? Insights on the Allocation of Environmental Aid.” With Robert Hicks, Michael Tierney, and Bradley Parks*. International Studies Association, New York, March, 2009.

 

2009  “Unequal Vulnerability to Climate Change and Breaking the Negotiations Impasse: Environmental Justice and Potential Solutions.” With Bradley C. Parks*. International Studies Association, New York, March, 2009.

 

2008  “Warming Climate?  Labor-Environmentalist Relations and the Global Climate Crisis.”  With Tammy Lewis and Kenneth Gould.  American Sociological Association, August 2008, Boston.

 

2008  “Coping With Climate Change: Dimensions of Injustice.”  Co-sponsored panel, Section on Race, Gender and Class, American Sociological Association, August 2008, Boston.

 

2008  “Ecologically-Unequal Exchange, Ecological Debt, and Climate Justice: History and Implications of Three Linked Ideas for a New Social Movement.”  With Bradley C. Parks*.  American Sociological Association, August 2008, Boston.

 

2008  Participant, “What’s New About the New Carbon Economy”  Workshop, Environmental Change Institute, Christ Church College, University of Oxford.  September 2008.

 

2007  Presenter at conference “Climate Change: A Globally Integrated Climate Policy for Canada.”  Nov. 2, Faculty of Law/ Centre for International Studies/Hart House, University of Toronto. With Bradley Parks*.

 

2007 Presenter at conference “Climate Change and Development in Africa.”  Centre for the Environment, University of Oxford, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.  March 12, 2007.

 

2007  Presenter at conference “Climate Change and the Fate of the Amazon.”  Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, James Martin 21st Century School.  March 20-22, 2007. Maria Carmen Lemos and J. Timmons Roberts.

 

2007 Presenter at conference “Shifting the Discourse: Climate Change as an Issue of Human Security.”  European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop, Oslo, Norway, June 20-22, 2007.

 

2007 “Emerging contradictions for civil society in climate governance: carbon offsets, food miles, forests and development.”  Diana Liverman and Timmons Roberts.  "Blind Spots of Global Climate Governance" 16th February 2007.  Berlin, Germany

 

2006 “Addressing the Structural Roots of Carbon Emissions Intensity: Export Profiles, Foreign Assistance, and ‘Pathway Switching’ to Low Carbon Development Strategies in LDCs.”  Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, Nov. 17-18, 2006.

 

2006  “The Political Market for Environmental Aid: Explaining Cross-National Donation Patterns.”  Robert Hicks, Bradley Parks* and J. Timmons Roberts.  International Studies Association annual conference, March 22-25, San Diego

 

2006  “Is Kyoto Suffering From a Wider Disease? Explaining Participation and Non-Participation in the Kyoto Protocol and Other Major Environmental Treaties.”  Bradley Parks* and J. Timmons Roberts.  International Studies Association annual conference, March 22-25, San Diego.

 

2005  “Understanding Vulnerability to Disasters: A Cross-National Analysis of 4,040 Climate-Related Disasters.” Bradley C. Parks* and J. Timmons Roberts.  American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 13-16, 2005, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

 

2003 “Globalization, Vulnerability to Climate Change, and Injustice.”  Bradley C. Parks* and J. Timmons Roberts.  American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 16-19, 2003, Atlanta, Georgia.

 

2003  “Environmental Justice: Contested Conceptions in North America, Possible Impacts in Latin America.”  XXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, March 27-29, Dallas, Texas.

 

2002  “State Environmentalism Revisited: Structural Predictors of Nations’ Propensity To Sign Environmental Treaties.” J. Timmons Roberts and Alexis A. Vásquez*. International Studies Association annual conference, New Orleans, March 2002

 

2002  “Turtles Love Teamsters: or Do They?  Conflict and Cooperation Between Unions and Environmentalists in the United States, A Focus on the Energy Sector.” Tammy Lewis, Kenneth Gould, and J. Timmons Roberts.  American Sociological Association annual meetings, Chicago, IL, session sponsored by the Environment and Technology Section.

 

2002   “Fear At Work, Fear At Home: Surveying The New Geography Of Dread In America Post 9-11.” J. Timmons Roberts and Moona Em*.  Presented at the International Sociological Association Working Group 24 on Disasters Miniconference on 9-11, August, 2002, Chicago, IL.

 

2001   “Causes and Outcomes of Environmental Injustice Struggles: Evidence from Louisiana, USA”  J. Timmons Roberts and Melissa M. Toffolon-Weiss*.  Presented at the Colóquio Internacional sobre Justiça Ambiental, Trabalho e Cidadania [International Colloquim on Environmental Justice, Work and Citizenship], Niteroi, RJ, Brazil, 24-27 September, 2001.

 

2001  “Tartarugas amam carroceiros," o não amam?  Conflito e cooperacao entre sindicatos e ambientalistas no Estados Unidos, enfoque nos assuntos do setor energético.” [“Turtles Love Teamsters, or do they?  Conflict and cooperation between unions and environmentalist in the United States.  A focus on the energy sector.”]  J. Timmons Roberts.  Presented at the XI ASESP/Sao Paulo State Sociologists Conference, PUC-SP, 1-4 October 2001.

 

2001   “North American Conceptions of Environmental Justice.”  J. Timmons Roberts and Melissa M. Toffolon-Weiss*.  Presented at the Jornada de Direito e Justiça Ambiental, Niteroi, RJ, Brazil, 27 September, 2001

 

2001  “Explaining Outcomes of Environmental Justice Struggles: Evidence from Four Louisiana Cases.”  J. Timmons Roberts and Melissa M. Toffolon-Weiss*.  American Sociological Association annual meetings, Regular session on Race, Class and Environment.  Anaheim California, August 18-21, 2001.

 

2000  “How does the Growth Machine Manufacture Environmental Injustice?  Incentives, Politics and Resistance in Louisiana.”  Melissa Toffolon-Weiss* and J. Timmons Roberts, American Sociological Association annual meetings, Washington DC, session co-sponsored by the Environment and Technology Section and the Section on Race, Gender and Class.  August, 2000.

 

2000  “Which Nations Sign Environmental Treaties and Why?  Patterns in Ratification and Gaps in Understanding a Decade after Dietz and Kalof.”  Alexis A. Vasquez* and J. Timmons Roberts, roundtable, American Sociological Association annual meetings, Washington DC, August, 2000.

 

2000  "Prospects and Perils of International Environmental Standards."  Environmental Policy Symposium mini-conference, mini-conference, sponsored jointly by  the Section on Environment and Technology of the ASA and by the Natural  Resources Research Group of the Rural Sociological Society.  Washington, DC, August 17, 2000.

 

2000  “Corporate Environmentalism, Local Struggles, and Environmental Sociology.”  Southern Sociological Society’s annual meetings, New Orleans, April, 2000.

 

2000  "Corporate environmentalism in Brazil's chemical industry: Participation in Responsible Care and ISO14001 among 619 firms." J. Timmons Roberts and Erika A. Stauffer*.  Latin American Studies Association XXI International Conference, Miami, March 16-18, 2000.

 

1999    “International Environmental Standards and the Environmental State.”  Presented at the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee 24 conference on “The Environmental State Under Pressure.”  Northwestern University, August 6-7, 1999.

 

1999  “Corporate Environmentalism in Brazil’s Chemical Industry: How Wide?  How Deep?”  Presented at the American Sociological Association’s annual conference, August 6-10, 1999, Chicago.

 

1999   “Rural Communities and Environmental Justice in Louisiana.”  Presented at the Natural Resource Research Group of the Rural Sociological Society Symposium, “Environmental Regulation and Management,” August 4-8, 1999, Chicago, IL. 

 

1998   The End of ‘Pollution Haven’ as ‘Comparative Advantage’?  Emerging International Environmental Standards and the Brazilian Chemical Industry.”  Presented at the UMASS-Amherst conference “Space, Place and Nation: Reconstructing NeoLiberalism in the Americas.”  November 19-21, 1998.

 

1998  "Global Standards or Pollution Haven?  Transnational Corporations and Environmental Behavior in Latin America."  J. Timmons Roberts. Latin American Studies Association International Conference, Chicago, Illinois, Sept. 24-26, 1998.

 

1998 “Coping with Hazards at Work: The Impact of Coping Styles on Stress.”  J. Timmons Roberts and John E. Baugher*.  Presented at the American Sociological Association’s annual meetings, San Francisco, CA, August 1998.

 

1997  "Pollution Implications of Development Choices: Carbon Intensity, Export Mixes, and Paths of Development.  Paper presented at the joint Environment and Technology section and Political Economy of the World System section session of the American Sociological Association 1997 Annual Meeting, August 9-13, 1997, Toronto, Ontario.

 

1997  "World-System Theory and the Environment: Toward a New Synthesis."  J. Timmons Roberts and Peter E. Grimes.  Presented at the International Sociological Association Research Committee 24, Conference: "Sociological Theory and the Environment."  March 20-24, 1997, Woudschoten, Netherlands.

 

1997  "World-systems Theory and the Global Environment: An Exploration."  Presented at the Political Economy of The World System PEWS XXI Conference "The Global Environment: A World-System Perspective."  Santa Cruz, California, April, 1997.

 

1996  "Negotiating Both Sides of the Plant Gate: Why Studies of Community Responses to Hazards and Disasters Must Pay More Attention to Workers."  Paper presented at the Environment and Technology section session of the American Sociological Association 1996 Annual Meeting, August 16-20, 1996, New York, New York.

 

1996  "Shifting Correlates of National Carbon Efficiency in the World System."  Presented by J. Timmons Roberts and Peter E. Grimes at the Political Economy of the World System section session of the American Sociological Association 1996 Annual Meeting, August 16-20, 1996, New York, New York.

 

1995  "Foreign Investment and Participation in Environmental Treaties: Cross-national Evidence."  Latin American Studies Association XIX International Conference, Sept. 28-30, 1995, Washington, D.C.

 

1995  "Predicting Participation in Environmental Treaties: A World-System Analysis." Section session of the Environment and Technology section of the American Sociological Association, Annual Meetings, August, 1995, Washington, D.C.

 

1995  "Oscillations in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Long Cycles of Production in the World Economy, 1790-1990." Peter E. Grimes and J. Timmons Roberts.  Section session of the Environment and Technology section of the American Sociological Association, Annual Meetings, August, 1995, Washington, D.C.

 

1995  "Globalization and the Environment in Latin America."  Political Economy of the World-System XIX Annual Conference "Latin America in the World Economy", Coral Gables, Fl. April 20-22, 1995.

 

1995  "Emissions from Industrial Production in the Post-War Era: The Political Economy of Energy Efficiency in the World System, 1950-1990."  International Studies Association 36th Annual Convention, February 21-25, 1995, Chicago, Illinois.

 

1994  "Hazardous Workplaces, Class and Stress: Evidence from an Eleven Nation Study."  J. Timmons Roberts and John E. Baugher*.  American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Regular Session on "Risk: Theory and Context", August, 1994, Los Angeles, California.

 

1994  "The Effects of Social Structure on National Energy Efficiency."  Society for Human Ecology, April 7-10,1994, East Lansing, Michigan.  Peter E. Grimes, J. Timmons Roberts, and Jodie Manale*.

 

1994  "Compulsory Voting, Invalid Ballots, and Abstention in Brazil."  Timothy J. Power and J. Timmons Roberts, Brazilian Studies Association, March 10-13, 1994, Atlanta, Georgia.

 

1993  "Social Roots of Environmental Damage: A World-Systems Analysis of Global Warming."  Peter Grimes, J. Timmons Roberts and Jodie Manale*.   American Sociological Association annual meetings, August, 1993, Miami, Florida.

 

1993  "Urbanization, Politics and Television in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon."  American Association of Geographers annual meeting, 6-11 April, 1993, Atlanta, Georgia.

 

1992  "Households, Local Government and Fragmentation in the Brazilian Amazon."  Presented at the Latin American Studies Association XVII International Congress, September 24-26, 1992, Los Angeles, California.

 

1991  "Workplace Hazardous Exposures and Personality."  Presented at the Section on Environment and Technology Session: "Multidimensional Experiences of Risk", American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, August 23-27, 1991, Cincinnati, Ohio.

 

1991  "Family Strategies and Urban Growth in an Amazon Boom Town."  Presented at the American Association of Geographers conference, April 13-17, 1991, Miami, Florida.

 

1991  "Resource Frontiers and Grassroots Environmentalism: A Case-Study from the Brazilian Amazon."  Presented at the American Association of Geographers conference, April 13-17, 1991, Miami, Florida.

 

1991  "City of Subcontractors: Class and Households in a New Amazon Town."  Presented at the Latin American Studies Association LASA'91 XVI International Congress, 4-6 April, 1991, Washington, D.C.

 

1990  "Grand Projects: Poles for Local Development or Export Enclaves?  A Case Study of State-Planned Mining and Farming in the Brazilian Amazon."  Presented at the Rural Sociology Regular Session, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, August 11-14, 1990, Washington, D.C.

 

1990  "Decentralização e Desenvolivimento Amazônico: O Caso de Parauapebas."  VIII Congresso Nacional dos Sociôlogos, 7-11 May, 1990, Belém, Pará, Brazil.

 

 

PAPERS READ AT REGIONAL CONFERENCES:

 

2006  “Divide to Conquer?: Union Schisms and New Opportunities for Environmentalist-Labor Coalition Formation.”  Kenneth A. Gould, Tammy Lewis, and J. Timmons Roberts.  Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, February 23 - 26, 2006, Boston,

 

1996  "Green Labels and Greenwashing: Corporate Environmental Campaigns and International Environmental Standards."  Mid-South Sociological Association, October, 1996, Little Rock, Arkansas.

 

1995  "Emerging Global Environmental and Labor Standards."  Mid-South Sociological Association, October, 1995, Mobile, Alabama

 

1994  "Predicting State Environmentalism: A World-System Analysis."  Presented at the Mid-South Sociological Association annual meetings, Lafayette, La., Oct., 1994.

 

1994  "Risk, Stress and Restructuring in the U.S. Petrochemical Industry."  John E. Baugher* and J. Timmons Roberts.  Eastern Sociological Association Annual Meetings, March 20, 1994, Baltimore, Maryland.

 

1991   "Internal Colonialism and Placenames on the Contemporary Amazon Frontier."  Presented at the Blue Ridge Onomastics Society's IV Annual Symposium. April 6, 1991, Greensboro, NC.

 

1991  "States Versus Informal Markets in an Amazon Frontier Town."  Presented at the Southern Regional Science Association's Annual Meeting, April 11-13, 1991, Miami, Florida.

 

1991  "Forging Comparative Advantage: Austerity, Subcontracting, and Household Response in an Amazon Resource Boomtown."  University of North Carolina/Duke joint Institute of Latin American Studies Noon Series, January, 1991.

 

1990  "Carajás e Parauapebas: Para Onde Vão os Benefícios?"  Nucleo de Altos Estudos Amazônicos/Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil.  Series Seminários de Pesquisa. 5 June, 1990.

 

 

SESSIONS ORGANIZED:

 

2004  “Environmental Activism and Movement Structure;” “The Environment in the Global System.”  Two regular sessions for the American Sociological Association annual meetings, San Francisco, CA.

 

2003  “Environmental Justice Movements in Latin America.”  ENV011 session for the XXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, March 27-29, Dallas, Texas.

 

2002 “Environmental Movements and Environmental Justice.”  Session co-organized with Leo Rinckevicius for the International Sociological Association’s world conference in Brisbane, Australia, 2002. 

 

2000  “Corporate and Urban Environmental Stewardship.”  Latin American Studies Association XXII International Conference, Miami, March 16-18, 2000.

 

1998 “Author Meets Critic: A Conservation Assessment of the Terrestrial Ecoregions of Latin America and the Carribean.”  With author Douglas Graham of the World Bank.  Latin American Studies Association XXI International Conference, Chicago, Illinois, September, 1998.

 

1998  “Latin American Environmental Policy and Performance: Assessing Directions and Causes of Change.” Latin American Studies Association XXI International Conference, Chicago, Illinois, September, 1998.

 

1997  "Assessing International Environmental Pressures on Latin American Firms and Governments."  Latin American Studies Association XX International Conference, Guadalajara, Mexico, April, 1997.

 

1995  "Latin American Environmentalists: Who Are They?" Latin American Studies Association XIX International Conference, Sept. 28-30, 1995, Washington, D.C.  Co-organized with Kathryn Hochstetler.

 

1995  "Environmental Regulations and Corporate Flight to Latin America: Comparative Perspectives." Latin American Studies Association XIX International Conference, Sept. 28-30, 1995, Washington, D.C.

 

1994  Informal Discussion Roundtables (twelve), Political Economy of the World-System Section of the American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, August, 1994, Los Angeles, California.

 

1992  "Economic Restructuring and Local Response: Cross-National Perspectives." Latin American Studies Association XVII International Congress, September 24-26, 1992, Los Angeles, California.  Organized with Carol Zabin

 

1995  "Global Issues in Sociology."  Mid-South Sociological Association, Mobile Alabama, October, 1995.

 

 

Other Conference Participations and Invited Lectures:

 

2008 Invited Speaker, “The Climate Justice Movement: Clear Need, Unclear Path.”  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Environmental Policy and Planning Program, October 21, 2008. 

 

2008 Invited Speaker, Tipping Points: Climate and Art University of Oxford Conference, September 2008.

 

2007 Invited Keynote, UNESCO Side Event, Kyoto Protocol Meeting of the Parties, Bali, Indonesia, Dec. 14, 2007.

 

2007 Invited Public Lecture, “A Climate of Injustice: Global Inequality and Climate Change Vulnerability, Responsibility, and Action.”  Faculty of Law, University of Toronto.  Nov. 1, 2007.

 

2007 Panelist, “Climate Change and the Future of Tourism.”  Council for Hospitality Management Education.  Oxford, UK. May 10.

 

2007 Public Lecture “Inequality, Trust, and the Kyoto Impasse: World-Systems Insights on Climate Vulnerability, Responsibility, and Action.”  Wageningen University, Netherlands. May 23.

 

2007              Public Lecture “Global Inequality and Climate Change: Vulnerability, Responsibility, and Action.” Institute for Social Ecology, IFF, Klagenfurt University, Vienna Austria.  March 27.

 

2007 Lecture “The Greening of Aid?”  London School of Economics, Geography Series, January 17.

 

2006  Guest lecturer, MSc/MPhil course, Environment and Society, Cambridge University, October 18.

 

2006  Presenter, “Understanding the Carbon Economy” workshop, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University.  August

 

2004  Panelist, session “Identification of Climate Injustices and Barriers to Climate Justice,”  conference “Just Climate? Pursuing Environmental Justice in the Face of Global Climate Change” The Environmental Justice and Global Climate Change Student Group (EJCC) and the School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) at the University of Michigan,  March 26 – 28

 

2004 Workshop leader “Workshop: Accounting for Climate Injustice: Approaches, Unforeseen Consequences and Political Resistance.” School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) at the University of Michigan, January 15.

 

2004 Lecture, “Global Inequality and Climate Change: Roots of Environmental Injustice
in the World-System.” School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) at the University of Michigan series, January 15.

 

2002   Discussant, “Ascription, Social Process, and Environmental (In)Justice.”  Thematic Session at the American Sociological Association annual meetings, Chicago, IL,

 

2000  Keynote speaker at day-long seminar of the Brazilian Chemical Workers’ Union on “Environmental Politics of Chemical Firms in Latin America.”  Sao Paulo, Brazil, 27 July 2000

 

1994  Discussant in Panel "Grass Roots Projects, Community Based Developments, and Policy Influences in Latin America."  Latin American Studies Association, March 10, 1994, Atlanta, Georgia.

 

1991  Discussant in Panel: "The Persian Gulf War."  Mid-South Sociological annual meetings, Jackson, Mississippi, October, 1991.

 

 

RECENT RESEARCH REPORTS:

 

2007  “The Clean Development Mechanism: As Assessment of Current Practice and Future Approaches for Policy.” Emily Boyd, Nathan E. Hultman, J. Timmons Roberts, Esteve Corbera, (Contributing authors: Johannes Eberling, Diana M. Liverman, Kate Brown, Robert Tippmann, John Cole, Phil Mann, Marius Kaiser, Mike Robbins, Adam Bumpus, Allen Shaw, Educardo Ferreira, Alex Bozmoski, Chris Villiers and Jonathan Avis.)  Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research/Oxford University Environmental Change Institute Working Paper 114.

 

2007 “The Media and Climate Change Aid.”  (Maxwell Boykoff and J. Timmons Roberts), background paper commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme for Human Development Report 2007.

The Williamsburg Accessibility Project (NEW April 2005): (press release .doc) (12 page report .pdf file) (powerpoint slides .ppt)

Development and Watersheds:
    Release on New Report on Development and Watersheds in Williamsburg--2002 (.htm file)
    "Development and Watersheds in Greater Williamsburg: A Guide for Citizens and Students"--2002 (.pdf file 2.3 mb)
    Survey Findings Report: "Development and Water in Williamsburg, James City, and York Counties"--2002 (.htm file)

Work and Change in America Study Findings:
    "What We Feared: A New Geography of Fear in America Post 9-11" (.htm document)
    "Newly Hazardous Jobs in a Changed America" (.htm document)
    "Who Flies the Flag?" (.htm document)

Greening the Green and Gold: 2002 Environmental Assessment of the College of William and Mary
    August 28, 2002 version of first assessment, presented to the Board of Visitors, September, 2002.  (.pdf file)


 
 

Updated 25 October 2008