Environmental Sociology, Environmental Justice, Globalization and Development, Gender and the Environment

Christina Ergas researches the relationship between social inequity and the natural environment, with a focus toward how power relations structure access and exposure to environmental goods and harms.

Books

• 2021 – Ergas, Christina, Surviving Collapse: Building Community Toward Radical Sustainability. NY: Oxford University Press.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles                          

• 2023 – Ergas, Christina and Richard York. “A Plant by Any Other Name… Foundations for Materialist Sociological Plant Studies.” Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833211017209
• 2021 – Ergas, Christina, Patrick Greiner, Julius McGee, and Matt Clement. “Does Gender Climate Influence Climate Change?: The Multidimensionality of Gender Equality and its Countervailing Effects on the Carbon Intensity of Well-Being.” Sustainability. 13(7): 3956; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13073956    
• 2020 – McGee, Julius, Mackenzie Christensen, Patrick Greiner, Christina Ergas, and Matt Clement. “Gender Inequality, Reproductive Justice, and Decoupling Economic Growth and Emissions: A Panel Analysis of the Moderating Association of Gender Equality on the Relationship between Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions.” Environmental Sociology.
• 2018 – McGee, Julius, Christina Ergas, and Matthew Clement. “Racing to Reduce Emissions: Assessing the Relationship between Race and Environmental Impacts from Transportation.” Sociology of Development.
• 2017 – McGee, Julius, Christina Ergas, Patrick Greiner, and Matthew Clement. “How do Slums Change the Relationship Between Urbanization and the Carbon Intensity of Well-Being?” PLOS One.
• 2017 – University of Oregon Social Science Feminist Network. “The Burden of Invisible Work in Academia: Social Inequalities and Time Use in Five University Departments.” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations.
• 2016 – Ergas, Christina, Matthew Clement, and Julius McGee. “Urban Density and the Metabolic Reach of Metropolitan Areas: A Panel Analysis of Per Capita Transportation Emissions at the County-Level.” Social Science Research. 58:243-253.
• 2016 – Ergas, Christina and Matthew Clement. “Ecovillages, Restitution, and the Political-Economic Opportunity Structure: An Urban Case Study in Mitigating the Antagonism between Humans and Nature.” Critical Sociology. 42(7-8):1195–1211.
• 2015 – Clement, Matthew, Christina Ergas, and Patrick Greiner. “The Environmental Consequences of Rural and Urban Population Change: An Exploratory Spatial Panel Study of Forest Cover in the Southern United States, 2001-2006.” Rural Sociology. 80(1):108-136.
• 2012 – Ergas, Christina and Richard York.  “Women’s Status and Carbon Dioxide Emissions: A Quantitative Cross-national Analysis.”  Social Science Research. 41:965-976
  * Featured as a Research Highlight in Nature Climate Change. 2(5):312 (2012).
• 2011 – York, Richard and Christina Ergas. “Women’s Status and World-System Position: An Exploratory Analysis.” Journal of World-Systems Research. 17(1):147-164.
• 2011 – York, Richard, Christina Ergas, Eugene A. Rosa, and Thomas Dietz. “It’s a Material World: Trends in Material Extraction in China, India, Indonesia, and Japan.” Nature and Culture. 6(2):103-122.
• 2010 – Ergas, Christina. “A Model of Sustainable Living: Collective Identity in an Urban Ecovillage.” Organization and Environment. 23(1):32-54.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

• Forthcoming – Ergas, Christina. “Gender and Climate Justice.” Solving the Climate Crisis: Social Scientists Speak Out. Edited by Kristin Haltinner and Dilshani Sarathchandra. Routledge.
• Forthcoming –  Ergas, Christina. “Real Utopian Stories to Counter the Climate Apocalypse.” Good Stories: Telling Against Trouble. NY: NYU Press.
  
• 2021 – Ergas, Christina, Laura McKinney, and Shannon Bell.  “Intersectionality and the Environment.” International Handbook of Environmental Sociology. Springer.
• 2014 – Ergas, Christina. “Barriers to Sustainability: Gendered Divisions of Labor in Cuban Urban Agriculture.” In From Sustainable to Resilient Cities: Global Concerns and Urban Efforts. Vol. 14. Edited by William G. Holt. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Book Reviews

• 2013 – Ergas, Christina. Review of Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Cuba. By Sinan Koont. (University Press of Florida). Monthly Review. 64(10):46-52.
• 2007 – Ergas, Christina. Review of From Hire to Liar: The Role of Deception in the Workplace. By David Shulman. (Cornell University Press). Work in Progress: Organizations, Occupations and Work Newsletter. Spring, pp. 10-11.

Other Publications 

• 2014 –Ergas, Christina. “Considering Gender Equity: Pursuing More Sustainable Urban Environments.” Community and Urban Sociology Section Newsletter. Spring, 26(2):6-11.
• 2012 –Ergas, Christina. “Making the Invisible Visible: Gendered Work in Havana, Cuba’s Urban Agriculture.” Center for The Study of Women and Society Annual Review. P.10