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J. Timmons Roberts
jtrobphotoInterim Director, Program in Environmental Science and Policy

Professor of Sociology

The College of William and Mary

Williamsburg  VA 23185 USA

jtrobe@wm.edu

                        skype: timmonsroberts
                        http://faculty.wm.edu/jtrobe   

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

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

 

Ongoing affiliation:

James Martin 21st Century Professor (2006-)

Environmental Change Institute

Oxford University Centre for the Environment

Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Road

Oxford, OX1 3QY UK

timmons.roberts@ouce.ox.ac.uk

Oxford Environmental Change Institute http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/

 

April 18, 2008 Report and Release: “Campus Greening Efforts: What Difference Do They Make?”  release .pdf    report pdf

 

 

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;

          Research Methods; Environmental Governance and Policy; Environmental Justice;

          Latin America and Globalization; Economic and Environmental Change

 

TEACHING AND PROGRAM ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:

 

          2001-2008                    Director of the Program in Environmental Science and Policy, The College of William and Mary (Interim 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?  Understanding the Environmental Impact of Development Assistance.  Robert L. Hicks, Bradley C. Parks*, J. Timmons Roberts, and Michael J. Tierney. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

2007   A Climate Of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy. J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley C. 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.

 

 

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

 

Forthcoming “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, Diana M. Liverman.  Ambio [synopsis section, not peer-reviewed].

 

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 Vol. 363 No. 1498: p. 1897-1902.

 

2008  “Review: 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 Vol. 363 No. 1498: p. 1729-1736.

 

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]

 

2008     “Globalization: The Environment and Development Debate.”  Pp. xx-xx 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.”

 

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*.  Forthcoming 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.

 

 

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:

 

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.