Thomas Dietz

Michigan State University

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Paul C. Stern

Social and Environmental Research Institute

Jianguo Liu

Inner Mongolia University of Technology

Michael P. Vandenbergh

Vanderbilt University

Eugene A. Rosa

Oxford University Press (United Kingdom)

Rachael Shwom

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Kristian Steensen Nielsen

Copenhagen Business School

Kimberly S. Wolske

University of Chicago

Edward Vine

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Aaron M. McCright

Michigan State University

Bruce Hackett

University of California, Davis

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Chinese Academy of Sciences

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University of Wisconsin–Madison

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

University of Groningen

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

University of Washington

University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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Leveraging change: the power of peer pressure

Nature (2020)

Thomas Dietz

Peer pressure

Social pressure

10.1038/d41586-020-00111-7

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Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems

Science (2007)

Jianguo Liu Thomas Dietz Stephen R. Carpenter Marina Alberti Carl Folke

Integrated studies of coupled human and natural systems reveal new and complex patterns and processes not evident when studied by social or natural scientists separately. Synthesis of six case studies from around the world shows that couplings between human and natural systems vary across space, time, and organizational units. They also exhibit nonlinear dynamics with thresholds, reciprocal feedback loops, time lags, resilience, heterogeneity, and surprises. Furthermore, past couplings have legacy effects on present conditions and future possibilities.

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Human systems engineering

10.1126/science.1144004

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The science of mitigation: Closing the gap between potential and actual reduction of environmental threats

Energy Research & Social Science (2022)

Paul C. Stern Thomas Dietz Michael P. Vandenbergh

10.1016/j.erss.2022.102735

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Political events and public views on climate change

Climatic Change (2020)

Thomas Dietz

10.1007/s10584-020-02791-6

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Earth Day: 50 Years of Continuity and Change in Environmentalism

One Earth (2020)

Thomas Dietz

Environmentalism

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Value (mathematics)

10.1016/j.oneear.2020.04.003

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Nonlinear effects of group size on collective action and resource outcomes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2013)

Wu Yang Wei Liu Andrés Viña Mao‐Ning Tuanmu Guangming He

For decades, scholars have been trying to determine whether small or large groups are more likely to cooperate for collective action and successfully manage common-pool resources. Using data gathered from the Wolong Nature Reserve since 1995, we examined the effects of group size (i.e., number of households monitoring a single forest parcel) on both collective action (forest monitoring) and resource outcomes (changes in forest cover) while controlling for potential confounding factors. Our results demonstrate that group size has nonlinear effects on both collective action and resource outcomes, with intermediate group size contributing the most monitoring effort and leading to the biggest forest cover gain. We also show how opposing effects of group size directly and indirectly affect collective action and resource outcomes, leading to the overall nonlinear relationship. Our findings suggest why previous studies have observed differing and even contradictory group-size effects, and thus help guide further research and governance of the commons. The findings also suggest that it should be possible to improve collective action and resource outcomes by altering factors that lead to the nonlinear group-size effect, including punishing free riding, enhancing overall and within-group enforcement, improving social capital across groups and among group members, and allowing self-selection during the group formation process so members with good social relationships can form groups autonomously.

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10.1073/pnas.1301733110

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Time to try carbon labelling

Nature Climate Change (2011)

Michael P. Vandenbergh Thomas Dietz Paul C. Stern

Carbon fibers

10.1038/nclimate1071

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Measuring household energy efficiency behaviors with attention to behavioral plasticity in the United States

Energy Research & Social Science (2015)

Summer Allen Thomas Dietz Aaron M. McCright

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Consumption

10.1016/j.erss.2015.07.014

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Narrowing the US energy efficiency gap

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2010)

Thomas Dietz

Laser ablation MC-ICP-MS allows in situ strontium isotope data to be obtained for incrementally formed bioapatites such as enamel with extremely high spatial resolution. Here, we provide a large-scale application of the method comparing the ...Understanding mobility and landscape use is important in reconstructing subsistence behavior, range, and group size, and it may contribute to our understanding of phenomena such as the dynamics of biological and cultural interactions between distinct ...

Laser Ablation

10.1073/pnas.1010651107

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Reply to 'Broaden research on the human dimensions of climate change'

Nature Climate Change (2016)

Thomas Dietz Benjamin K. Sovacool Paul C. Stern

10.1038/nclimate3156

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