Introduction: Progress in Structural Human Ecology

Dietz, Thomas; Jorgenson, Andrew K.

doi:10.22459/her.22.01.2015.01

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“…Human agency thus emerges as an element in the system that derives, in part at least, from sets of self-held beliefs, commitments, and selfperceptions. Such a framing articulates well both with the coupled-systems approach to understand complex system functions and with approaches to understanding the dialectical relation between individuals and structure currently being advanced within structural human ecology (see, e.g., Dietz & Jorgenson, 2016, and others in that issue).…”

Section: Social-ecological Structure and The Formation Of Human Identitymentioning

confidence: 91%

“…Theoretical advances in two closely related sets of literature-social-ecological systems scholarship and work on structural human ecology (the latter dealing with questions of structure and agency within human-ecological systems; see Dietz & Jorgenson, 2016)-have provided potentially useful conceptual approaches for understanding complex interactions between social and ecological processes that may be usefully employed to revisit the potential role(s) played by ecological elements within human identity research (Dietz & Jorgenson, 2016). Social-ecological systems thinking conceives of social and ecological elements-involving socioeconomic and political as well as biophysical, geochemical, and climatic elements among others-as conjoined and interacting, rather than analytically or functionally separate.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Engaging with Human Identity in Social-Ecological Systems: A Dialectical Approach

Ingalls¹,

Stedman²

2017

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Vexing problems of global environmental change call for better conceptual and analytical approaches for understanding human behaviors, factors influencing these behaviors, and the causal pathways through which these shape social and environmental outcomes. While human identity meanings provide key analytic objects in the interrogation of these dynamics, identity-based research has been truncated by a historic overemphasis on social factors and a lack of critical engagement with the ecological context of these processes. Adapting Giddens's concept of structuration, we draw on recent advances in socialecological systems scholarship and human structural ecology to propose a new conceptual approach for understanding human identity processes and their relation to social-ecological structure. Resituating the human person within complex socialecological systems, we suggest some causal pathways through which ecological (in addition to social) elements are active in the emergence of human identity and, conversely, the ways in which identity-based behaviors interact dialectically with social-ecological structure to produce outcomes significant along both social and ecological dimensions. Finally, we explore some implications of this reframing for the interrogation of society-nature dynamics and for empirical research engaging with social-ecological change and resilience.

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Section: Social-ecological Structure and The Formation Of Human Identitymentioning

confidence: 91%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Engaging with Human Identity in Social-Ecological Systems: A Dialectical Approach

Ingalls¹,

Stedman²

2017

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“…GDP per capita, measured in 2005 US dollars, is used as a control variable to measure the effect of national-level affluence on emissions. Research in the fields of SHE, ToP, ecologically unequal exchange, and world-systems theory have all found economic growth to be a key contributor to environmental impact and anthropogenic CO 2 emissions per capita (Dietz & Jorgenson, 2015;York et al, 2003c). A quadratic term for GDP per capita is also included in order to allow the relationship between this variable and emissions to be expressed non-linearly.…”

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Time, Power and Environmental Impact: A Growth Curve Model of the Relationship Between Temporal Change and CO2 Emissions Per Capita

Greiner¹

2019

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In this analysis, I examine the effect of social-structural factors associated with the passage of time on carbon dioxide (CO 2) per capita, while also accounting for global power relations. I use World Development Indicator data on 91 nations over a 60year period. I control for global power relations using Clark and Beckfield's (2009) trichotomous world-system categories to assign each country to a world-system stratum. I then use a hierarchical linear growth curve model to highlight the extent to which countries belonging to core, semi-periphery, and periphery categories are able to rely upon changes captured by the passage of time, such as improvements in technology, to reduce CO 2 emissions per capita. Key findings indicate that, in nations belonging to the core and semi-periphery, such factors are associated with increases in CO 2 emissions per capita, rather than the decreases that might be expected.

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“…This background gives rise to a new research question: "how can environmental stress contribute to human well-being?" This question was first posed in the literature on structural human ecology (see [23,24]), a research area that aims to understand all aspects of the relationship between people and the environment. In this paper, the previous general research question is taken into account, and we wonder more specifically: "how does environmental stress, meaning the impact of air pollution, affect a country's well-being?".…”

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Objective Environmental Indicators and Subjective Well-Being: Are They Directly Related?

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This paper discusses how objective environmental indicators affect the measure of a country’s well-being. The dependent variable in the analysis is subjective well-being (WB), for which the objective environmental variable we use is per capita carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The paper refers to the relationship between subjective well-being and a set of objective variables representing the four basic types of capital to satisfy human needs and to ensure the well-being of future generations based on the ecological economic systems. Implementing different mediation models, estimated using structural equation modeling, we discover that the objective environmental variable does not directly affects the country’s subjective well-being, while, according to different models, the mediated effects are statistically significant in explaining subjective well-being. The surprising results lead us to think that the environmental risks related to CO2 emissions might not be correctly perceived by the public.

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Introduction: Progress in Structural Human Ecology

Cited by 18 publications

References 15 publications

Engaging with Human Identity in Social-Ecological Systems: A Dialectical Approach

Engaging with Human Identity in Social-Ecological Systems: A Dialectical Approach

Time, Power and Environmental Impact: A Growth Curve Model of the Relationship Between Temporal Change and CO2 Emissions Per Capita

Objective Environmental Indicators and Subjective Well-Being: Are They Directly Related?

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