STIRPAT Bibliography

These are research papers that use either STIRPAT or a similar formulation to analyze the anthropogenic driving forces of environmental change.

Ai-Hua, Long, Xu Zhong-Min, Wang Xin-Hua, Shang Hai-Yang. 2006. “Impacts of population, affluence and technology on water footprinting in China.”
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Berry, Lisa M. 2008. “Inequality in the creation of environmental harm: Looking for answers from within.” Equity and the Environment: Research in Social Problems and Public Policy 15: 239-265.
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Cole, Matthew A. and Eric Neumayer. 2004. “Examining the impact of demographic factors on air pollution.” Population and Environment 26 (1): 5-21.

Cramer, James C. 1996/1997. "A Demographic Perspective on Air Quality: Conceptual Issues Surrounding Environmental Impacts of Population Growth." Human Ecology Review. 3.2:191-196.
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Cramer, James C. 1998. "Population Growth and Air Quality in California." Demography. 35:45-56.
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Dietz, Thomas, Eugene A. Rosa and Richard York. Forthcoming. "Rethinking the Relationship Between Human Benefits and Environmental Costs." Human Ecology Review. 16.1.
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Dietz, Thomas and Eugene A. Rosa. 1994. "Rethinking the Environmental Impacts of Population, Affluence and Technology." Human Ecology Review. 1.2:277-300.
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Dietz, Thomas and Eugene A. Rosa. 1997. "Environmental Impacts of Population and Consumption." Pp. 92-99 in P.C Stern, T. Dietz, V. Ruttan, R.H. Socolow and J. Sweeney (eds.). Environmentally Significant Consumption: Research Directions. Washington DC: National Academy Press.
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Dietz, Thomas and Eugene A. Rosa. 1997. "Effects of Population and Affluence on CO₂ Emissions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 94: 175-179.
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Dietz, Thomas, Richard York and Eugene A. Rosa. 2001. "Ecological Democracy and Sustainable Development." 2001 Open Meeting of the International Human Dimensions of Global Change Community. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Dietz, Thomas, Richard York and Eugene A. Rosa. 2006. "Rethinking the Relationship Between Human Benefits and Environmental Costs." XIV meeting of the Society for Human Ecology, 19 October 2006. Bar Harbor, Maine.
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Fan, Ying, Lan-Cui Liu, Gang Wu and Yi-Ming Wei. 2006. "Analyzing impact factors of CO₂ emissions using the STIRPAT model." Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 26:377-395.

Madu, Ignatius Ani. 2007. “The environmental impacts of regional disparity in population and wealth distribution in Nigeria .” Environment, Development and Sustainability.
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Rosa, Eugene A. 2004. "Tracking the Human Sources of Ecological Footprints: The STIRPAT Research Program." Invited presentation to the Center for Environmental Policy, The Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. 18 November 2004.
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Rosa, Eugene A. and Thomas Dietz. 1995. "Comment on Economic Growth, Carrying Capacity, and the Environment by Kenneth Arrow, Bert Bolin, Robert Constanza, Partha Dasgupta, Carl Folke, C.S. Holling, Bengt-Owe Janson, Simon Levin, Karl-Göran Mäler, Charles Perrings and David Pimental." Science. Vol. 268.

Rosa, Eugene A. and Thomas Dietz. 1998. "Climate Change and Society: Speculation, Construction and Scientific Investigation." International Sociology. 13: 421-455.
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Rosa, Eugene A., Richard York and Thomas Dietz. 2004. "Reflections on the STIRPAT Research Program. Environment, Technology and Society. Summer:1-2.
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Rosa, Eugene A., Richard York and Thomas Dietz. 2004. "Tracking the Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecological Impacts." AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment. XXXIII: 509-512.
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Shandra, John M. 2005. The economics and politics of deforestation: A quantitative, cross-national analysis. Dissertation, Boston College.
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Shandra, John M., Bruce London, Owen P. Whooley, John B. Williamson. 2004. “International nongovernmental organizations and carbon dioxide emissions in the developing world: A quantitative, cross-national analysis.” Sociological Inquiry 74 (4): 520-545.

Shi, Anqing. 2003. "The Impact of Population Pressure on Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Evidence from Pooled Cross-Country Data." Ecological Economics. 44:24-42.
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Scholz, Stephan. 2006. “The POETICs of industrial carbon dioxide emissions in Japan: An urban and institutional extension of the IPAT identity.” Carbon Balance and Management, 1: 11.
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Soulé, Peter T. and Jennifer L. DeHarte. 1998. "Assessing IPAT Using Production- and Consumption-Based Measures of I." Social Science Quarterly 79:754-765.

York, Richard and Eugene A. Rosa. 2003. "Key Challenges to Ecological Modernization Theory: Institutional Efficacy, Case Study, Evidence, Units of Analysis, and Pace of Eco-Efficiency." Organization and Environment. 16:273-288.*
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York, Richard, Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Dietz. 2002. "Bridging Environmental Science with Environmental Policy: Plasticity of Population, Affluence and Technology." Social Science Quarterly. 83:18-34.*
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York, Richard, Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Dietz. 2003. "A Rift in Modernity? Assessing the Anthropogenic Sources of Global Climate Change with the STIRPAT Model." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. 23.10:31-51.
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York, Richard, Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Dietz. 2003. "Footprints on the Earth: The Environmental Consequences of Modernity." American Sociological Review. 68:279-300.*
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York, Richard, Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Dietz. 2003. "STIRPAT, IPAT and ImPACT: Analytic Tools for Unpacking the Driving Forces of Environmental Impact." Ecological Economics. 46: 351-365.*
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York, Richard, Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Dietz. 2004. "The Ecological Footprint Intensity of National Economies." Journal of Industrial Ecology. 8:1-16.
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Zagheni, Emilio, and Francesco C. Billari. 2007. “A cost valuation model based on stochastic representation of the IPAT equation.” Population and Environment 29: 68-82.

*Collection of articles that together were awarded the 2002-2004 Outstanding Publication Award of the Section on Environment and Technology of the American Sociological Association.