Dr. Thomas Dietz Professor of Sociology & Crop and Soil Sciences Director of the Environmental Science & Policy Program Associate Dean for Environmental Science & Policy, College of Social Science, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, College of Natural Science, Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 USA TDietzVT@aol.com (email)

Background:

Thomas Dietz is Professor of Sociology and Crop and Soil Sciences and Director of the Environmental Science and Policy Program at Michigan State University. He is also Associate Dean for Environmental Science and Policy, Associate Dean in the Colleges of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Natural Science and Social Science at MSU. He holds a Bachelor of General Studies from Kent State University and a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of California, Davis. He is a National Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Danforth Fellow, past-president of the Society for Human Ecology and has received the Distinguished Contribution Award from the Section on Environment, Technology and Society of the American Sociological Association. He currently chairs the U.S. National Research Council Committee on Human Dimensions of Global Change, is a member of the U.S. N.R.C. Committee on Global Change Research, and serves as Secretary of the Social and Economic Sciences Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Research Interests:

His research interests are in human ecology and cultural evolution. He has a long-standing program of scholarship on the relationship between science and democracy in environmental policy. With collaborators at George Mason he has published a series of papers on environmental values and beliefs of the public. He is also working on methods for better integrating social science and environmental sciences perspectives in macro-comparative analysis. He has co-authored or co-edited seven books and written over 70 papers and book chapters. For a full list of publications, see his C.V. or list of publications, accessible from the DietzKalof homepage.