How Robust Are Social Structural Predictors of Carbon Dioxide Emissions? A Multiverse Analysis

IF 2.4 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environmental Sociology Pub Date : 2022-08-30 DOI:10.1080/23251042.2022.2116361

Nicholas Theis, Richard York

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Due to the many plausible decisions researchers can make during the scientific process, varying results can be obtained to research questions. In the environmental sociological literature, key theories and findings highlight how modernization, militarization, demographic factors, and globalization and trade influence carbon dioxide emissions. We use multiverse analysis to address how robust central findings in this literature are to model specification choices. Our results indicate that findings related to modernization and demographic factors are mostly robust, while those concerning militarization and globalization are more subject to model selection.

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二氧化碳排放的社会结构预测指标有多稳健？多元宇宙分析

由于研究人员在科学研究过程中可能会做出许多看似合理的决策，因此研究问题可能会得到不同的结果。在环境社会学文献中，关键理论和发现强调了现代化、军事化、人口因素、全球化和贸易如何影响二氧化碳排放。我们使用多元宇宙分析来解决该文献中的中心发现对模型规范选择的稳健程度。我们的研究结果表明，与现代化和人口因素相关的研究结果大多是稳健的，而与军事化和全球化有关的研究结果则更多地受到模型选择的影响。

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Environmental Sociology ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

CiteScore

4.60

自引率

12.00%

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期刊介绍： Environmental Sociology is dedicated to applying and advancing the sociological imagination in relation to a wide variety of environmental challenges, controversies and issues, at every level from the global to local, from ‘world culture’ to diverse local perspectives. As an international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal, Environmental Sociology aims to stretch the conceptual and theoretical boundaries of both environmental and mainstream sociology, to highlight the relevance of sociological research for environmental policy and management, to disseminate the results of sociological research, and to engage in productive dialogue and debate with other disciplines in the social, natural and ecological sciences. Contributions may utilize a variety of theoretical orientations including, but not restricted to: critical theory, cultural sociology, ecofeminism, ecological modernization, environmental justice, organizational sociology, political ecology, political economy, post-colonial studies, risk theory, social psychology, science and technology studies, globalization, world-systems analysis, and so on. Cross- and transdisciplinary contributions are welcome where they demonstrate a novel attempt to understand social-ecological relationships in a manner that engages with the core concerns of sociology in social relationships, institutions, practices and processes. All methodological approaches in the environmental social sciences – qualitative, quantitative, integrative, spatial, policy analysis, etc. – are welcomed. Environmental Sociology welcomes high-quality submissions from scholars around the world.