Developing spatial inequalities in carbon appropriation: A sociological analysis of changing local emissions across the United States |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Sociology, MS-28, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005-1892, United States;2. Department of Sociology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, United States;1. New York University, United States;2. University of California, Berkeley, United States;3. University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, United States;1. University of Kansas, Department of Sociology, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd. Room 716, Lawrence, KS 66045, United States;2. New York University & NBER, Department of Sociology, 6 Washington Square North Room 20, New York, NY 10003, United States;3. New York University, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology and the Department of Biology, 12 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003, United States |
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| Abstract: | This study examines an overlooked dynamic in sociological research on greenhouse gas emissions: how local areas appropriate the global carbon cycle for use and exchange purposes as they develop. Drawing on theories of place and space, we hypothesize that development differentially drives and spatially decouples use- and exchange-oriented emissions at the local level. To test our hypotheses, we integrate longitudinal, county-level data on residential and industrial emissions from the Vulcan Project with demographic, economic and environmental data from the U.S. Census Bureau and National Land Change Database. Results from spatial regression models with two-way fixed-effects indicate that alongside innovations and efficiencies capable of reducing environmentally harmful effects of development comes a spatial disarticulation between carbon-intensive production and consumption within as well as across societies. Implications for existing theory, methods and policy are discussed. |
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| Keywords: | Carbon emissions Local development Environment Political economy |
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