Dietz's research focuses on the human driving forces of environmental change and on the interplay between science, democracy and the environment. He also has a strong interest in evolutionary process.
He is a National Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Danforth Fellow and has won the Distinguished Contribution Award of the Section on Environment, Technology and Society of the American Sociological Association. He chairs the U.S. National Research Council/ National Academy of Sciences Panel on “Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision-Making” and is past-chair of the Committee on Human Dimensions of Global Change.
Eugene (Gene) Rosa is currently Professor of Sociology, the Edward R. Meyer Professor of Natural Resource and Environmental Policy in the Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service, Affiliated Professor of Environmental Science, Affiliated Professor of Fine Arts, and Faculty Associate in the Center for Integrate Biology, all at Washington State University. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, winner of the Distinguished Contribution Award of the Section on Environment, Technology and Society of the American Sociological Association, and has held visiting positions at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the London School of Economics and Political Science, the University of Klagenfurt (Austria), the University of Stuttgart, and at the Akademie für Technikfrolgenabschätzung, Stuttgart, Germany and has lectured widely in the United States and abroad. He currently serves on the U.S. National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change and the U.S. National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences Board on Radioactive Waste Management.
Rosa has published three books on risk and the environment, articles in a wide variety of scientific journals, including Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, AMBIO, Physics and Society, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Risk Analysis, Journal of Risk Research, the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, International Sociology, Society and Natural Resources, Ecological Economics, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Social Science Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly, Organization and Environment, Sociological Symposium, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, a variety of encyclopedia entries, and numerous technical and government reports. Several of his publications have won awards.
His current research interests focus on Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, The Risk Society, Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Risk Perceptions, The Epistemology of Environmental Sociology, and Science Policy. He continues to produce “Ecolage,” his coinage of an art tradition that combines bricolage with an explicit concern for environmental impacts. When he is not doing science or art he can be found on the ski slopes of mountains in northern Idaho in the winter months, on the bike trails of northern Idaho or at wineries in Washington, California, France, or Italy in the summer months, or at world-class art museums any time of year.
http://cooley.libarts.wsu.edu/rosa/
Richard York is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Washington State University in 2002. In addition to his research and publications related to the STIRPAT program, he has published articles in Ecological Economics¸ Gender & Society, Human Ecology Review, Population and Environment, and Population Research and Policy Review addressing various aspects of the human interaction with the natural environment.
His research interests include the anthropogenic driving forces of environmental change; the connections between theory, meta-theory, and methodology; historical materialism and human ecology; ethnozoology/anthrozoology; and the sociology and philosophy of science. When not engaged in scholarly activity, he enjoys hiking, camping, and domestic leisure with his wife, two beagles, and two Dachshunds.
