Professor Dietz's Research

Recent publications and presentations available via open access.

Thomas Dietz, Eugene A Rosa, and Richard York. 2007. "Driving the human ecological footprint" Frontiers in Ecology and The Environment 5(1): 13-18.
http://www.stirpat.org/frontiers_article.html

Stephen R. Carpenter, Ruth DeFries, Thomas Dietz, Harold A. Mooney, Stephen Polasky, Walter V. Reid, and Robert J. Scholes. 2006. "Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Research Needs" Science 314: 257-258. http://www.environment.msu.edu/MA_Research_Priorities.pdf

Thomas Dietz, Elinor Ostrom and Paul C. Stern. 2003. "The Struggle to Govern the Commons" Science 302: 1908-1912, 12 December 2003. http://www.indiana.edu/~workshop/announce.html *

* The Ecological Society of America has selected the article "The Struggle to Govern the Commons" for the 2005 Sustainability Science Award.

Thomas Dietz. 2003. "What is a Good Decision? Criteria for Environmental Decision Making" Human Ecology Review 10: 60-67. http://www.humanecologyreview.org/101.htm

Thomas Dietz. 2001. "Thinking about Environmental Conflicts" Pp. 31-54 in Lisa M. Kadous (ed.) Celebrating Scholarship. Fairfax, Virginia: College of Arts and Sciences, George Mason University. http://www.dietzkalof.org/dietz_research.html

Thomas Dietz and Paul C. Stern (eds.) 2002. New Tools for Environmental Protection: Education, Information and Voluntary Measures. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. http://books.nap.edu/catalog/10401.html

Elinor Ostrom, Thomas Dietz, Nives Dulsak, Paul C. Stern, Susan Stonich and Elke Weber (eds.) 2002. The Drama of the Commons. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. http://books.nap.edu/catalog/10287.html

U.S. National Academy of Sciences/ National Research Council, Committee on Noneconomic and Economic Value of Biodiversity. 1999. Perspectives on Biodiversity: Valuing Its Role in an Everchanging World. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.

Paul C. Stern, Thomas Dietz, Vernon W. Ruttan, Robert H. Socolow and James Sweeney (eds.) 1997. Environmentally Significant Consumption: Research Directions. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. http://books.nap.edu/catalog/5430.html