Political influences on greenhouse gas emissions from US states

Dietz, Thomas; Frank, Kenneth A.; Whitley, Cameron T.; Kelly, Jonathan; Kelly, Rachel

doi:10.1073/pnas.1417806112

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“…This information is sourced from the National Archives and Records Administration. There is evidence that state-level politics can influence environmentally significant decisions (Dietz et al 2015).…”

Section: Statistical Controlsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Even for the environment, context matters! States, households, and residential energy consumption

Adua

Clark

2019

Environ. Res. Lett.

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This study adopts a multi-level approach to examine the extent to which state-and household-level factors shape residential energy consumption in the United States, focusing on efficiency improvement and affluence. Analyzing the 2009 Residential Energy Consumption Survey, state-level energy efficiency data from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), and other sources, we find that state context significantly influences energy consumption at the household level. Households in states scoring high on energy efficiency consume significantly less residential energy than those in states scoring low on the measure. At the household level, the analysis reveals mixed relationships between investment in energy efficiency technologies and residential energy consumption, as some measures of efficiency technology are negatively related to residential energy consumption, others are positively related to it. In regard to affluence, state-level measures do not emerge as significant predictors of residential energy consumption. At the household level, however, affluence drives residential energy consumption, which, in turn, is a significant driver of carbon dioxide emissions. Our study makes an important contribution to the social scientific literature on energy consumption, illuminating distinct relationships at different levels. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that simultaneously examines the impacts of factors measured at both the household (micro) and state (meso) levels.

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Section: Statistical Controlsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Even for the environment, context matters! States, households, and residential energy consumption

Adua

Clark

2019

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…Also, the wealthy are better equipped to protect themselves from environmental harms while shifting such harms onto the poor, and the wealthy are likely to use their economic resources to gain political power, which they use to dominate the policy environment. Environmental sociologists have similarly argued that reducing environmental harms may first require a shift toward greater political and economic equality (Ciplet et al 2015;Dietz et al 2015;Downey 2015).…”

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Income Inequality and Carbon Emissions in Post-soviet Nations, 1992–2009

Jorgenson¹,

Schor²,

Giedraitis³

2018

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“…Efficiency is usually defined as the relation between two flows (e.g., materials/GDP), hence stocks played no important role in the eco-efficiency debate, except where stocks such as population or area are used to compare flows in different countries by calculating flows per capita or per unit area [14,70,149]. Such concepts of eco-efficiency mask the importance of stocks in determining resource requirements and service provision.…”

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“…It also underpinned analyses of relations between economic activities and resource use. One example are analyses of environmental impacts as a function of population, affluence and technology [14,15], where affluence is often measured as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and impacts are assessed using a wealth of different environmental indicators, including material and energy flows.…”

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The Material Stock–Flow–Service Nexus: A New Approach for Tackling the Decoupling Conundrum

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Fundamental changes in the societal use of biophysical resources are required for a sustainability transformation. Current socioeconomic metabolism research traces flows of energy, materials or substances to capture resource use: input of raw materials or energy, their fate in production and consumption, and the discharge of wastes and emissions. This approach has yielded important insights into eco-efficiency and long-term drivers of resource use. But socio-metabolic research has not yet fully incorporated material stocks or their services, hence not completely exploiting the analytic power of the metabolism concept. This commentary argues for a material stock-flow-service nexus approach focused on the analysis of interrelations between material and energy flows, socioeconomic material stocks ("in-use stocks of materials") and the services provided by specific stock/flow combinations. Analyzing the interrelations between stocks, flows and services will allow researchers to develop highly innovative indicators of eco-efficiency and open new research directions that will help to better understand biophysical foundations of transformations towards sustainability.

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Political influences on greenhouse gas emissions from US states

Cited by 91 publications

References 43 publications

Even for the environment, context matters! States, households, and residential energy consumption

Even for the environment, context matters! States, households, and residential energy consumption

Income Inequality and Carbon Emissions in Post-soviet Nations, 1992–2009

The Material Stock–Flow–Service Nexus: A New Approach for Tackling the Decoupling Conundrum

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