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Publications

Publications

Relevant publications and works in progress by project participants include the following:

Michael P. Vandenbergh & Jonathan Gilligan, "Beyond Gridlock," 40 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 217 (2015)

Michael P. Vandenbergh & Kaitlin T. Raimi, “Climate Change: Leveraging Legacy,” 41 Ecology Law Quarterly (2015)

Amanda R Carrico, Heather Barnes Truelove, Michael P. Vandenbergh & David Dana, “Does Learning about Climate Change Adaptation Change Support for Mitigation?” 41 Journal of Environmental Psychology 19-29 (2015)

Heather B. Truelove, Amanda R. Carrico, Elke U. Weber, Kaitlin Toner Raimi & Michael P. Vandenbergh, “Positive and Negative Spillover of Pro-environmental Behavior: An Integrative Review and Theoretical Framework,” 29 Global Environmental Change 127–138 (2014)

Michael P. Vandenbergh, Kaitlin T. Raimi & Jonathan M. Gilligan, “Energy and Climate Change: A Climate Prediction Market,” 61 UCLA Law Review 1962-2017 (2014)(symposium)

Jonathan M. Gilligan & Michael P. Vandenbergh, “Accounting for Political Opportunity Costs in Climate Instrument Choice,” 32 Virginia Environmental Law Journal 1-26 (2014)

Michael P. Vandenbergh, “Private Environmental Governance,” 99 Cornell Law Review 129-199 (2013)                    

Sally S. Simpson, Carole Gibbs, Lee Slocum, Melissa Rorie, Mark Cohen & Michael P. Vandenbergh, “An Empirical Assessment of Corporate Environmental Crime Control Strategies,” 103 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 231-277 (2013)

Amanda R. Carrico, Micajah Spoden, Kenneth A. Wallston & Michael P. Vandenbergh, “The Environmental Cost of Misinformation: Why the Recommendation to Use Warm Water for Handwashing is Problematic,” 37 International Journal of Consumer Studies 433 (2013)

Michael P. Vandenbergh, J.B. Ruhl & Jim Rossi, “Introduction – Supply and Demand: Barriers to a New Energy Future,” 65 Vanderbilt Law Review 1447-1453 (2012) (symposium)

Michael P. Vandenbergh & Jim Rossi, “Good for You, Bad for Us: The Financial Disincentive for Net Demand Reduction,” 65 Vanderbilt Law Review 1527-1564 (2012) (symposium)

Mark A. Cohen & Michael P. Vandenbergh, “The Potential Role of Carbon Labeling in a Green Economy,” 34 Energy Economics S53-S63 (2012) (symposium)

Grant D. Jacobsen, Matthew J. Kotchen & Michael P. Vandenbergh, “The Behavioral Response to Voluntary Provision of an Environmental Public Good: Evidence from Residential Electricity Demand,” 56 European Economic Review 946-960 (2012)

Michael P. Vandenbergh & Jonathan Gilligan, “Macro Risks: The Challenge for Rational Risk Regulation,” 22 Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 401-431 (2011) (symposium)

Kevin A. Stack & Michael P. Vandenbergh, “The One Percent Problem,” 111 Columbia Law Review 1385-1443 (2011) (selected for inclusion in 2013-2014 Land Use and Environmental Law Review as one of the six best environmental law articles of the year)

Michael P. Vandenbergh, Tom Dietz & Paul C. Stern, “Time to Try Carbon Labelling,” 1 Nature Climate Change 4-6 (2011)

Carrico, A.R., Fraser, J. & Bazuin, J.T., "Green with envy: Psychological and social predictors of lawn fertilizer application," Environment and Behavior (forthcoming 2012)

Carrico, A.R. Riemer, M., "Motivating energy conservation in the workplace: An evaluation of the use of group-level feedback and peer education," Journal of Environmental Psychology, 31(1), 1-13 (2011)

Ewing, A., Thabrew, L., Perrone, D., Abkowitz, A. and G.M. Hornberger, "Is LCA a credible tool for corporate environmental footprinting? A case study of an inland marine freight transportation company," Journal of Industrial Ecology (2011)

Flewelling S.A., Herman, J.S., Hornberger, G.M. and A. L. Mills, "Travel Time Controls the Magnitude of Nitrate Discharge in Groundwater Bypassing the Riparian Zone to an Agriculture Stream on Virginia's Coastal Plain," Hydrol. Proc (2011)

David Hess, “Electricity Transformed: Neoliberalism and Local Energy in the United States,” 43(3) Antipode 1056 (2011)

David Hess, “Science and Neoliberal Globalization: A Political Sociological Approach,” 40(5) Theory and Society 505 (with Kelly Moore, Scott Frickel, and Daniel Kleinman) (2011)

Perrone, D., Murphy, J. and G.M. Hornberger, "Gaining perspective on the water-energy nexus at the community scale," Environmental Science & Technology (2011).

Vandenbergh, M.P., Carrico, A.R., Bressman, L.S., "Regulation in the behavioral era," 95 Minnesota Law Review 715 (2011)

Amanda Carrico, Michael P. Vandenbergh, Paul C. Stern, Gerald T. Gardner, Tom Dietz, and Jonathan Gilligan, "Energy and Climate Change: Key Lessons for Implementing the Behavioral Wedge," 1 George Washington Journal of Energy and Environmental Law (2010).

Greenberg, M., & Truelove, H. B., "Energy choices and perceived risks: Is it just global warming and fear of a nuclear power plant accident?" (2010)

Greenberg, M., & Truelove, H. B. "Right Answers and Right-Wrong Answers: Sources of Information Influencing Knowledge of Nuclear-Related Information," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 44, 130-140 (2010)

David Hess, “Sustainable Consumption and the Problem of Resilience,” 6(2) Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy 1 (2010)

David Hess, “A Political Economy of Sustainability: Alternative Pathways and Industrial Innovation,” in Steven Moore (ed.), Pragmatic Sustainability: Theoretical and Practical Tools, MIT Press (2010)

David Hess, “Undone Science: Social Movement Challenges to Dominant Scientific Practice,” 35(4) Science, Technology, and Human Values 444 (with Scott Frickel, Sahra Gibbon, Jeff Howard, Joana Kempner and Gwen Ottinger) (2010)

David Hess, “The Environmental, Health, and Safety Implications of Nanotechnology: Environmental Organizations and Undone Science in the United States,” 19(2) Science as Culture 181 (2010)

Paul C. Stern, Gerald, T. Gardner, Michael P. Vandenbergh, Thomas Dietz, Jonathan M. Gilligan, "Design Principles for Carbon Emissions Reduction Programs,"43 Environmental Science & Technology (2010)

Truelove, H. B., "The role of efficacy in intention to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: Self-efficacy, response efficacy, collective efficacy and collective response efficacy" (2010)

Truelove, H. B., & Greenberg, M., "Preferences for government investment in energy programs: Support for new energy production vs. energy conservation" (2010)

Truelove, H. B., & Parks, C. D., "Perceptions of behaviors that cause and mitigate global warming" (2010)

Michael P. Vandenbergh & Mark A. Cohen, "Climate Change Governance: Boundaries and Leakage ," 18 N.Y.U. Envtl. L. Rev. 221 (2010)

Jack N. Barkenbus, "Eco-Driving: An Overlooked Climate Change Initiative," 38 Energy Policy (2010)

Jonathan Gilligan, Thomas Dietz, Gerald T. Gardner, Paul C. Stern & Michael P. Vandenbergh, "The Behavioral Wedge: Best Policies to Promote Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Reductions by Individuals and Households," 7 Significance 17-20 (2010)

Joireman, J., Truelove, H. B., & Duell, B., "Effect of outdoor temperature, heat primes, and anchoring on belief in global warming," Journal of Environmental Psychology (2010)

Vandenbergh, M.P., Stern, P.C., Gardner, G.T., Dietz, T., Gilligan, J.M., "Implementing the Behavioral Wedge: Designing and Adopting Effective Carbon Emissions Reduction Programs," 40 Environmental Law Reporter 10547 (2010).

T. Dietz, G.T. Gardner, J. Gilligan, P.C. Stern, and M.P. Vandenbergh, "Household actions can provide a behavioral wedge to rapidly reduce U.S. carbon emissions," Proc. Nat'l. Acad. Sci., published online before print doi: 10.1073/pnas.0908738106 (2009). (Additional material is available at the Behavioral Wedge website: The Behavioral Wedge)

Amanda R. Carrico, "Motivating pro-environmental behavior in an organizational setting: The use of feedback and peer education to reduce energy use," Abstract presented at the Behavior Energy and Climate Change Conferene, Washington D.C., November 2009 (2009).

Joireman, J., Posey, D., Truelove, H. B., & Parks, C., "The Environmentalist Who Cried Drought: Reactions to Repeated Warnings About Depleting Resources Under Conditions of Uncertainty," 29 Journal of Environmental Psychology 181-192 (2009)

Truelove, H. B., & Joireman, J., "Understanding the Relationship Between Christian Orthodoxy and Environmentalism: The mediating Role of Perceived Environmental Consequences," 41 Environment and Behavior 806-820 (2009)

Michael P. Vandenbergh, Brooke Ackerly, and Fred Forster, "Micro-Offsets and Macro-Transformation: An Inconvenient View of Climate Change Justice," 33 Harvard Environmental Law Review 303 (2009)

Amanda R. Carrico, Paul Padgett, Michael P. Vandenbergh, Jonathan Gilligan, and Kenneth A. Wallston, "Costly Myths: An Analysis of Idling Beliefs and Behavior in Personal Motor Vehicles," 37 Energy Policy 2881-2888 (2009)

Jack N. Barkenbus, "Our Electric Automotive Future: CO2 Savings Through a Disruptive Technology," Policy & Society 27(4) (2009)

Michael P. Vandenbergh, "Environmental Action Taken Now Rather Than Later is Best for All," The Tennessean, February 22, 2009.

Brooke Ackerly and Michael Vandenbergh, "Climate Change Justice: The Challenge for Global Governance," 20 Georgetown International Environmental Law Journal 553 (2008) (symposium)

Jack Barkenbus, "Supersizing the American Dream in an Era of Climate Change," Environmental Law Reporter: News & Analysis 38 (December 2008)

Mark A. Cohen and Michael P. Vandenbergh, "Consumption, Happiness, and Climate Change," 38 Environmental Law Reporter 10834-10837 (2008) (symposium issue)

George Hornberger and John Stetkar, "Abrupt Climate Change" in Quantifying and Controlling Catastrophic Risks, Academic Press (2008)

Douglas A. Kysar & Michael P. Vandenbergh, "Introduction: Climate Change and Consumption", 38 Environmental Law Reporter 10825-10833 (2008) (symposium issue)

Paul Padgett, Michael P. Vandenbergh, James Clarke, and Anne Steinemann, "A Comparison of Carbon Calculators," 28 Environmental Impact Assessment Review 106 (2008)

Michael P. Vandenbergh, "Climate Change: The China Problem," 81 Southern California Law Review 905 (2008)

Michael P. Vandenbergh, Jack Barkenbus, and Jonathan Gilligan, “Individual Carbon Emissions: The Low-Hanging Fruit,” 55 UCLA Law Review 1701 (2008) (symposium)

Joni Hersch and W. Kip Viscusi, "Allocating Responsibility for the Failure of Global Warming Policies," 155 University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2007)

Sovacool, Benjamin J. and Jack N. Barkenbus, "Necessary but Insufficient: State Renewable Portfolio Standards and Climate Change Policies," 49 Environment 21-30 (2007)

Michael P. Vandenbergh, "The New Wal-Mart Effect: The Role of Private Contracting in Global Governance," 54 UCLA Law Review 913 (2007)

Michael P. Vandenbergh and Anne Steinemann, "The Carbon-Neutral Individual," 82 New York University Law Review 1673 (2007)

Michael P. Vandenbergh and Brooke Ackerly, "Climate Change: The Equity Problem," 26 Virginia Journal of Environmental Law 53 (2007)

Jack N. Barkenbus, "Putting Energy Efficiency in a Sustainability Context: The Cold Facts About Refrigerators," 48 Environment 11, 13, 16 (2006)

Joni Hersch and W. Kip Viscusi, "The Generational Divide in Support for Environmental Policies: European Evidence," 77 Climatic Change 212 (July 2006)
Schlundt, D.G., Hargreaves, M.K., and McClellan, L. (2006). Geographic Clustering of Obesity, Diabetes, and Hypertension in Nashville, Tennessee. Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 29 (2), 125-132.

W. Kip Viscusi and Richard J. Zeckhauser, "The Perception and Valuation of the Risks of Climate Change: A Rational and Behavioral Blend," 77 Climatic Change 151 (July 2006)

D.L. Welsch, B.J. Crosby, and George Hornberger, "Simulation of Future Stream Alkalinity Under Changing Deposition and Climate Scenarios," Science of the Total Environment 367:800-810 (2006)

Cohen, Mark A. “Individual and Household Environmental Behavior: What Does Economics Contribute to the Discussion?” 35 Environmental Law Reporter 10754-62 (November 2005)

Maupin, J.E., Miller, S, Britton, J., Goldzweig, I, Warren, H, Warren, R., Washington, W., and Schlundt, D.G (2004). A Road Map for Making the Nations Highways Safer: Strategies for Changing Unsafe Behaviors in Populations at High-Risk for Motor Vehicle-Related Morbidity and Mortality. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 15, 4-16.

Michael P. Vandenbergh, "From Smokestack to SUV: The Individual as Regulated Entity in the New Era of Environmental Law," 57 Vanderbilt Law Review 515, 610 (2004)

George Hornberger, et al. "A Plan for a New Science Initiative on the Global Waters Cycle," U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, D.C. 118 pages (2001)

Patel KA and Schlundt DG. (2001). Impact of moods and social context on eating behavior. Appetite, 36, 111-118.