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He also coordinates the Global Environmental Sociology Lab and works in the areas
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Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award from the American Sociological Association鈥檚
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the field of environmental sociology.
This year, he is on track to complete the Fifth National Climate Assessment as an appointed author by the US Global Change Research Program. Dr. Jorgenson is also a new member of the National Advisory Environmental Health Science Council for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Dr. Jorgenson鈥檚 research focuses on human dimensions of global and regional environmental change in regard to how development, inequality, and the structure of global production and trade networks contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, industrial pollution, land cover change, and relationships between environmental conditions and population health.
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