August 2017
CURRICULUM VITAE
THOMAS DIETZ
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION
Academic Positions
University Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University, 2017-presebt
Professor of Sociology, Michigan State University, 2003-present
Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, 2003-present
Assistant Vice President for Research and Graduate Study, Michigan State
University, 2006-2012
Director, Environmental Science and Policy Program, Michigan State
University, 2003-2009
Associate Dean for Environmental Science and Policy, College of Agriculture
and Natural Resources, College of Natural Science and College of Social
Science, Michigan State University, 2003-2007
Professor of Crop and Soil Sciences, Michigan State University, 2003-2009
Research Faculty, Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan
State University, 2005-present
Research Faculty, Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station/ Michigan AgBio Research, Michigan State
University, 2003-present
College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, George Mason University, 1998-2002
Founding Co-Director, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, 2000-2001
Assistant Professor to Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University, 1983-2002
Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, 2000-2002
Director and Founder, Northern Virginia Survey Research Laboratory, George Mason University, 1988-1994
Director, Human Ecology Research Group, George Mason University, 1985-2002
Senior Research Scientist, Center for International Science and Technology Policy, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, 1983-1991
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, George Washington University, 1980-1983
Lecturer and Research Associate, Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis, 1976-1980
Education
Bachelor of General Studies, Cum Laude, Kent State University, 1972
Doctor of Philosophy in Ecology, University of California, Davis, 1979 Dissertation title: Factors Influencing Childlessness Among American Women
Other Professional Activities
Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, Department of Anthropology, Division of Environmental Studies, University of California, Davis, 1973-1975
Core Staff Member, Population Workshop, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, 1973
Staff Member, National Science Foundation Student Originated Studies Project, “A Multi-Disciplinary Study of the Effects of Sublethal Doses of Heavy Metals on the Behavior of Selected Organisms,” 1972
Staff Member, National Science Foundation Student Originated Studies Project, “A Study of Selected Environmental, Social and Economic Factors Affecting a Section of the Cuyahoga River Watershed,” 1971
Founding Trustee, Kent Legal Defense Fund, Inc., 1970-1972
Chair, Kent Free University, 1968-1972
Awards, Honors, Elected Offices and Appointments
Member, Council of Canadian Academies Committee Expert Panel on the State of Knowledge and Practice of Integrated Approaches to Natural Resource Management in Canada, 2017-2018.
Member, External Advisory Committee, Center for Environmental Decision Making, Carnegie Mellon University, 2016-present.
Member, U.S. National Academies Committee on the Science of Science Communication, 2015-2016
Member, U.S. National Academies Committee to Advise the U.S. Global Change Research Program, 2011-2017
Principal Author, Chapter on Drivers, United Nations Environment Programme Global Environmental Outlook, 2011-2012
Member, External Advisory Board, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, 2010-present
Member, Steering Committee, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Project on The Alternative Energy Future, 2010-present
Member, U.S. National Academies Panel on Addressing the Challenges of Climate Change through the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 2009-2010
Vice-chair, U.S. National Academies Panel on Advancing the Science of Climate Change and Member, Committee on America’s Climate Choices, 2008-2011
Member, U.S. National Academies Advisory Committee on Climate Change Exhibit at the Koshland Museum, 2008-2011
Chair, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Human Impacts of Climate Change Advisory Committee, 2007-2008
Member, International Council for Science Ad Hoc Group to Summarize Gaps in Scientific Knowledge Based on the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2006-2008
Member, U.S. National Research Council Committee on Analysis of Global Change Assessments, 2006-2007
Sustainability Science Award, Ecological Society of America, 2005
Advisory Board, National Ecological Observation Network, 2005-2006
Distinguished Publication Award, American Sociological Association Section on Environment, Technology and Society, 2004
Member, Core Writing Team, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Synthesis Report, 2004-2005
Chair, U.S. National Research Council Panel on Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making, 2003-2008
National Associate, U.S. National Academies of Science, Class of 2001
Chair, U.S. National Research Council Committee on Human Dimensions of Global
Change, 1998-2004; Member, 1989-1995
Member Ex Officio, U.S. National Research Council Committee on Global
Change Research, 1999-2002
Coordinating Lead Author, “Decision-making, frameworks, criteria and indicators,” Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2002-2004
Secretary, Social, Economic and Political Sciences Section, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2000-2006
Member, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Drinking Water
Advisory, Committee Working Group on Benefits, 1998-1999
Member, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board,
Subcommittee on Valuation, 1996-1997
Distinguished Contribution Award, Section on Environment, Technology and
Society, American Sociological Association, 1996
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Elected 1996
Member, National Research Council Committee on Noneconomic and Economic Value of Biodiversity, 1995-1999
Planning Commissioner, Town of Grand Isle, Vermont, 1995-1997
Delegate, Vermont Democratic Convention, 1992, 1996
Board of Advisors, Doctoral Program in Environmental Studies, Antioch New England Graduate Program, 1995-present
Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 1994-present
Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, 1996-present
Who’s Who in the World, 2000-present
President, 1990-1994; First Vice-President, 1990; Annual Meeting Program Chair, 1990-1991; Board of Directors, 1987-1992; Society for Human Ecology
Member, Council on Environmental Quality Working Group on Social and Economic Impact Assessment, 1994-1995
Member, Nominations Committee, Eastern Sociological Society, 1992-1993
Invited Participant, Joint United Nations University-Academy of Sciences of the USSR Workshop on Data and Models in the Human Dimensions of Global Climate Change, 1990
Member, National Research Council Working Group on Ecological Effects of Human Activities, 1991
Member, National Research Council Committee on Climate Change and International Development Research, 1990
Visiting Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, 1988-1991
Social Statistics Representative, Board of Directors, Washington Statistical Society, 1990-1991
Member, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Elected 1989
Member, New York Academy of Sciences, Elected 1989
Fellow, Institute for Human Ecology, Elected 1988
Consultant, National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, Committee on Developing Strategies for Rangelands Management, 1982-1983
Council Environmental Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, 1979-1982
Danforth Fellow, Class of 1972
Advisor on Population Affairs, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1972-1976
SCHOLARSHIP
Books
Thomas Dietz and Andrew Jorgenson (eds.)2013.
Structural Human Ecology: Risk, Energy and Sustainability.
Pullman, Washington: Washington State University Press.
Thomas Dietz and David Bidwell (eds.)2012.
Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region: Decision Making Under Uncertainty.
East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press.
Eugene A. Rosa, Andreas Diekmann, Thomas Dietz and Carlo C. Jaeger (eds.) 2010.
Human Footprints on the Global Environment: Threats to Sustainability.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. (Winner of the Gerald Young Book Award of the Society for Human Ecology, 2010.)
Thomas Dietz and Linda Kalof. 2009.
Introduction to Social Statistics: The Logic of Statistical Reasoning.
London, England: Blackwell.
Thomas Dietz and Paul C. Stern (eds.) 2008.
Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making.
Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
Linda Kalof, Amy Dan and Thomas Dietz. 2008.
Essentials of Social Research.
Berkshire, England: Open University Press.
Larry Rockwood, Ronald E. Stewart and Thomas Dietz (eds.) 2008.
Foundations of Environmental Sustainability: The Co-Evolution of Science and Policy.
New York, New York: Oxford University Press.
Thomas Dietz and Paul C. Stern (eds.) 2002.
New Tools for Environmental Protection: Education, Information and Voluntary Measures.
Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
Elinor Ostrom, Thomas Dietz, Nives Dulsak, Paul C. Stern, Susan Stonich and Elke Weber (eds.) 2002.
The Drama of the Commons.
Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
Paul C. Stern, Thomas Dietz, Vernon W. Ruttan, Robert H. Socolow and James Sweeney (eds.) 1997.
Environmentally Significant Consumption: Research Directions.
Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
Scott D. Wright, Thomas Dietz, Richard Borden, Gerald A. Young and Gregory Guagnano (eds.) 1993.
Human Ecology: Crossing Boundaries.
Fort Collins, Colorado: Society for Human Ecology.
Thomas Dietz and Robert W. Rycroft. 1987.
The Risk Professionals.
New York, New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
James McEvoy and Thomas Dietz (eds.) 1977.
Handbook for Environmental Planning: The Social Consequences of Environmental Change.
New York, New York: Wiley-Interscience. (Reprinted in 1981 by Kreiger).
Refereed Papers
Thomas Dietz. In press.
"Human Drivers of Environmental Change"
Annual Review of Environment and Resources.
Thomas Dietz, Summer Allen and Aaron M. McCright. 2017.
"Integrating Concern for Animals into Personal Values."
Anthrozoös 30(1):109-22. doi: 10.1080/08927936.2017.1270597.
Kimberly S.Wolske,Paul C Stern and Thomas Dietz. 2017.
"Explaining Interest in Adopting Residential Solar Photovoltaic Systems in the United States: Toward an Integration of Behavioral Theories."
Energy Research & Social Science 25:134-51.
SummerAllen, Aaron M. McCright and Thomas Dietz. 2017.
"A Social Movement Identity Instrument for Integrating Survey Methods into Social Movements Research." SAGE Open 7(2):2158244017708819. doi: 10.1177/2158244017708819.
Whitley, Cameron T and Thomas Dietz. 2017.
"Turking Statistics: Student Generated Surveys Increase Student Engagement and Performance." Teaching Sociology doi: 10.1177/0092055X17721952.
Aaron M. McCright, Meghan Charters, Katherine Dentzman and Thomas Dietz. 2016.
"Examining the Effectiveness of Climate Change Frames in the Face of a Climate Change Denial Counter-Frame."
topiCS: Topics in Cognitive Science 8(1):76-97. doi: 10.1111/tops.12171.
Paul C. Stern, Benjamin K. Sovacool, and Thomas Dietz. 2016.
"Towards a science of climate and energy choices."
Nature Climate Change6: 547-555.
Thomas Dietz,Kenneth A Frank, Cameron Whitley, Jennifer Kelly, and Rachel Kelly. 2015.
"Political influences on greenhouse gas emissions from US states." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112:8254-8259.
Amanda R. Carrico, Michael P. Vandenbergh, Paul C. Stern, and Thomas Dietz. 2015.
"US climate policy needs behavioural science."
Nature Climate Change 5:177-179.
Thomas Dietz. 2015.
"Altruism, self-interest, and energy consumption."
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112:1654-1655.
Thomas Dietz. 2015.
"Prolegomenon to a Structural Human Ecology of Human Well-Being."
Sociology of Development 1:123-148.
John M. Clements, Aaron M McCright, Thomas Dietz, and Sandra Marquart-Pyatt. 2015.
"A Behavioural Measure of Environmental Decision-Making for Social Surveys" Environmental Sociology 1:27-37.
Thomas Dietz and Andrew K Jorgenson. 2015.
“Progress in Structural Human Ecology."
Human Ecology Review 22:3-11.
Thomas Dietz and Richard York. 2015.
"Animals, Capital and Sustainability."
Human Ecology Review 22:35-53.
Summer Allen, Thomas Dietz, and Aaron M McCright. 2015.
"Measuring Household Energy Efficiency Behaviors with Attention to Behavioral Plasticity in the United States."
Energy Research and Social Science 10:133-140.
Wu Yang, Thomas Dietz, Daniel Boyd Kramer, Zhiyun Ouyang, and Jianguo Liu. 2015.
"An integrated approach to understand the linkages between ecosystem services and human well-being."
Ecosystem Health and Sustainability 1:Article 19.
Jennifer Kelly,Aaron McCright, and Thomas Dietz. 2015.
"Climate Change and Society: Toward Online Pedagogy."
Human Ecology Review 21:49-64.
Andrew K. Jorgenson Thomas Dietz. 2015.
"Economic growth does not reduce the ecological intensity of human well-being."
Sustainability Science 10:149-156.
Thomas Dietz. 2014.
"Understanding environmentally significant consumption."
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences111: 5067-5068.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1403169111.
Thomas Dietz and Andrew Jorgenson. 2014.
“Towards a new view of sustainabledevelopment: human well-being and
environmental stress.”
Environmental Research Letters 9:031001 (doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/3/031001)
Thomas Dietz. 2013.
"Bringing Values and Deliberation to Science Communication."
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109(10): 14081-14087.
Wu Yang, Wei Liu, Andrés Viña, Mao-Ning Tuannu, Guangming He, Thomas Dietz, and Jianguo Liu. 2013.
"Nonlinear effects of group size on collective action and resource outcomes."
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110:10916–10921.
Thomas Dietz, Christina Leshko, and Aaron M McCright. 2013.
"Politics shapes individual choices about energy efficiency."
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110:9191-9192.
David Bidwell, Thomas Dietz, and Donald Scavia. 2013.
"Fostering knowledge networks for climate adaptation."
Nature Climate Change 3:610-611.
Thomas Dietz, Paul C. Stern and Elke Weber. 2013.
“Reducing Carbon-Based Energy Consumption through Changes in Household Behavior.”
Daedalus 142(1):78-89.
Aaron M. McCright, Katherine Dentzmann, Meghan Charters and Thomas Dietz. 2013.
“The influence of political ideologyon trust in science.”
Environmental Research Lettersdoi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044029
(Selected by the Editors as a “Highlight of 2013”)
Wu Yang, Thomas Dietz, Daniel Boyd Kramer, Xiaodong Chen, and Jianguo Liu. 2013.
"Going Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: An Index System of Human Well-Being."
PLoS ONE 8:e64582.
Wu Yang, Thomas Dietz, Wei Liu, Junyan Luo, and Jianguo Liu. 2013.
"Going Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: An Index System of Human Dependence on Ecosystem Services."
PLoS ONE 8:e64581.
Jianguo Liu, Vanessa Hull, Mateus Batistella, Ruth DeFries, Thomas Dietz, Feng Fu, Thomas W. Herte, Roberto César Izaurralde, Eric F. Lambin, Shuxin Li, Luiz Antonio Martinelli, William McConnell, Emilio F. Moran, Rosamond Naylor, Zhiyun Ouyang, Karen R. Polenske, Anette Reenberg,Gilberto de Miranda Rocha, Cynthia S. Simmons, Peter H. Verburg, Peter M. Vitousek, Fusuo Zhang and Chunquan Zhu. 2013.
“Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World“
Ecology and Society18(2):Article 26.
Eugene A.Rosaand Thomas Dietz. 2012.
"Human Drivers of National Greenhouse Gas Emissions."
Nature Climate Change 2:581-586.
Adam Douglas Henry and Thomas Dietz. 2012.
“Understanding Environmental Cognition.”
Organization & Environment 25:238-258.
Xiaodong Chen,Kenneth A Frank, Thomas Dietz, and Jianguo Liu. 2012.
“Weak Ties, Labor Migration, and Environmental Impacts."
Organization & Environment 25:3-24.
Rosa, Eugene A, Thomas Dietz, Richard H Moss, Scott Atran, and Susanne Moser. 2012.
"Managing the Risks of Climate Change and Terrorism."
Solutions 3:59-65.
Thomas Dietz, Eugene A. Rosa and Richard York. 2012.
“Environmentally Efficient Well-Being: Is There a Kuznets Curve?”
Applied Geography 32:21-28.
Thomas Dietz and Jinhua Zhao. 2011.
“Paths to Climate Cooperation.”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences108:15671-15672.
Adam D. Henry and Thomas Dietz. 2011.
“Information, networks and the complexity of trust in commons governance.”
International Journal of the Commons 5(2):188-212.
Sandra T.Marquart-Pyatt, Rachael L. Shwom, Thomas Dietz, Riley E. Dunlap, Stan A. Kaplowitz, Aaron M. McCright and Sammy Zahran. 2011.
"Understanding Public Opinion on Climate Change: A Call for Research." Environment 53:38-42.
Michael P. Vandenbergh, Thomas Dietz and Paul C. Stern. 2011.
“Time to try carbon labeling.”
Nature Climate Change 1:4-6.
Richard York, Christina Ergas, Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Dietz. 2011.
"It's a Material World: Trends in Material Extraction in China, India, Indonesia and Japan."
Nature and Culture 6:103-122.
Amanda R. Carrico, Michael P. Vandenberg, Paul C. Stern, Gerald T. Gardner, Thomas Dietz and Jonathan M. Gilligan. 2011.
“Energy and Climate Change: Key Lessons for Implementing the Behavioral Wedge.”
The George Washington Journal of Energy and Environmental Law 2(10):61-67.
Thomas Dietz. 2010.
”Narrowing the U.S. Energy Efficiency Gap.”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107(37):16007-16008.
Paul C. Stern, Gerald T. Gardner, Michael P. Vandenberg, Thomas Dietz and Jonathan M. Gilligan. 2010.
“Design Principles for Carbon Emissions Reduction Programs.”
Environmental Science and Technology 44:4847-4848.
Michael P. Vandenberg, Paul C. Stern,Gerald T. Gardner,Thomas Dietz and Jonathan M. Gilligan. 2010.
“Implementing the Behavioral Wedge: Designing and Adopting Effective Carbon Emissions Reduction Programs.”
Environmental Law Review 40:10547-10554.
(Reprinted as Michael P.Vandenbergh, Paul C Stern, Gerald T. Gardner, Thomas Dietz and Jonathan Gilligan. 2011. "Implementing the Behavioral Wedge." The Environmental Forum 28:54-63.)
Rachel Shwom, David Bidwell, Amy Dan and Thomas Dietz. 2010.
"Understanding U.S. public support for domestic climate change policies." Global Environmental Change 20:472-482.
Jonathan M. Gilligan, Thomas Dietz, Gerald T. Gardner, Paul C. Stern and Michael P. Vandenbergh. 2010.
"The behavioural wedge: reducing greenhouse gas by individuals and households."
Significance 7:17-20.
Thomas Dietz, Gerald T. Gardner, Jonathan Gilligan, Paul C. Stern and Michael P. Vandenberg. 2009.
“The Behavioral Wedge: Household Actions Can Rapidly Reduce U.S Carbon Emissions."
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106:18452–18456.
Stephen R Carpenter, Harold Mooney, John Agard, Doris Capistrano, Ruth DeFries, Sandra Diaz, Thomas Dietz, Anantha K. Duraiappah, Alfred Oteng-Yeboah, Henrique Miguel Pereira, Charles Perrings, Walter V. Reid, Robert J. Scholes and Anne Whyte. 2009.
"Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment."
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106:1305-1312.
Stephen Whitfield,Eugene A Rosa, Thomas Dietz and Amy Dan. 2009.
"The Future of Nuclear Power: Value Orientations and Risk Perceptions."
Risk Analysis 29:425-437.
Thomas Dietz, Paul C. Stern and Amy Dan. 2009.
“How Deliberation Affects Stated Willingness to Pay for Mitigation of Carbon Dioxide Emissions: An Experiment.”
Land Economics 85:329-347.
Richard York,Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Dietz. 2009.
“A Tale of Contrasting Trends: Three Measures of the Ecological Footprint in China, India, Japan, and the United States, 1961-2003.”
Journal of World Systems Research 15:134-146.
Amy Fitzgerald, Linda Kalof and Thomas Dietz. 2009.
“Slaughterhouses and Increased Crime Rates: An Empirical Analysis of the Spillover From “The Jungle” Into the Surrounding Community.”
Organization and Environment 22:158-184.
(Winner of 2010 Distinguished Scholarship Award from the Section on Animals and Society of the American Sociological Association.)
Thomas Dietz and Adam D. Henry. 2008.
“Commons and Context.”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105:13189-13190.
Rachael Shwom, Amy Dan and Thomas Dietz. 2008.
“The effects of information and state of residence on climate change policy preferences.”
Climatic Change 90:343-358.
Paul McLaughlin and Thomas Dietz. 2008.
“Structure, Agency and Environment: Towards an Integrated Perspective on Vulnerability.”
Global Environmental Change 18:99-111.