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Thomas Dietz
Researcher at Michigan State University
Publications - 218
Citations - 42660
Thomas Dietz is an academic researcher from Michigan State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sustainability & Climate change. The author has an hindex of 68, co-authored 203 publications receiving 37313 citations. Previous affiliations of Thomas Dietz include State University of New York at Plattsburgh & George Mason University.
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The Struggle to Govern the Commons
TL;DR: Promising strategies for addressing critical problems of the environment include dialogue among interested parties, officials, and scientists; complex, redundant, and layered institutions; a mix of institutional types; and designs that facilitate experimentation, learning, and change.
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A Value-Belief-Norm Theory of Support for Social Movements: The Case of Environmentalism
TL;DR: In this article, a value-belief-norm (VBN) theory of movement support is proposed, which states that individuals who accept a movement's basic values, believe that valued objects are threatened, and believe that their actions can help restore those values experience an obligation (personal norm) for pro-movement action that creates a predisposition to provide support; the particular type of support that results is dependent on the individual's capabilities and constraints.
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Complexity of coupled human and natural systems
Jianguo Liu,Thomas Dietz,Stephen R. Carpenter,Marina Alberti,Carl Folke,Emilio F. Moran,Alice N. Pell,Peter Deadman,Timothy K. Kratz,Jane Lubchenco,Elinor Ostrom,Zhiyun Ouyang,William Provencher,Charles L. Redman,Stephen H. Schneider,William W. Taylor +15 more
TL;DR: Synthesis of six case studies from around the world shows that couplings between human and natural systems vary across space, time, and organizational units and have legacy effects on present conditions and future possibilities.
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Value Orientations, Gender, and Environmental Concern:
TL;DR: In this paper, a social-psychological model is developed to examine the proposition that environmentalism represents a new way of thinking, and it assumes that action in support of environmental quality may derive from any of three value orientations: egoistic, social-altruistic, or biospheric and that gender may be implicated in the relation between these orientations and behavior.
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Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Stephen R. Carpenter,Harold A. Mooney,John Agard,D. Capistrano,Ruth DeFries,Sandra Díaz,Thomas Dietz,Anantha Kumar Duraiappah,Alfred Oteng-Yeboah,Henrique M. Pereira,Charles Perrings,Walter V. Reid,José Sarukhán,Robert J. Scholes,Anne Whyte +14 more
TL;DR: New research is needed that considers the full ensemble of processes and feedbacks, for a range of biophysical and social systems, to better understand and manage the dynamics of the relationship between humans and the ecosystems on which they rely.