Richard York

14.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
130 papers, 9.8k citations indexed

About

Richard York is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard York has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 9.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 38 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 36 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Richard York's work include Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (39 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (26 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (17 papers). Richard York is often cited by papers focused on Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (39 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (26 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (17 papers). Richard York collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and United Kingdom. Richard York's co-authors include Eugene A. Rosa, Thomas Dietz, Brett Clark, Shannon Elizabeth Bell, Julius Alexander McGee, Riley E. Dunlap, John Bellamy Foster, Christina Ergas, Rebecca Clausen and Stefano B. Longo and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Richard York

123 papers receiving 9.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

STIRPAT, IPAT and ImPACT: analytic tools for unpacking the driving forces of environmental impacts

2003 1.8k citations Richard York, Eugene A. Rosa et al. profile →
Footprints on the Earth: The Environmental Consequences of Modernity

2003 626 citations Richard York, Eugene A. Rosa et al. profile →
The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth

2010 419 citations Brett Clark, Richard York et al. profile →
Energy transitions or additions?

2019 418 citations Richard York, Shannon Elizabeth Bell profile →

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard York

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard York

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Why aquaculture may not conserve wild fish 2024 ·Science Advances ·Stefano B. Longo, Richard York	2
2	Is Labor Green? 2019 ·Nature and Culture ·(unknown), Julius Alexander McGee, Richard York	13
3	Modernizing our way out or digging ourselves in? Reconsidering the impacts of efficiency innovations and affluence on residential energy consumption, 2005–2015 2019 ·Journal of Environmental Management ·Lazarus Adua, Brett Clark, Richard York, Chien Chen	18
4	Asymmetric relationship of urbanization and CO2 emissions in less developed countries 2018 ·PLoS ONE ·Julius Alexander McGee, Richard York	59
5	Energy Consumption Trends Across the Globe 2018 ·Oxford University Press eBooks ·Richard York	0
6	Has (even Marxist) political ecology really transcended the metabolic rift? 2018 ·Geoforum ·Brian M. Napoletano, (unknown), Jaime Paneque‐Gálvez, Brett Clark, Richard York, Iván Franch-Pardo, (unknown), (unknown)	10
7	The human dimensions of climate change: A micro-level assessment of views from the ecological modernization, political economy and human ecology perspectives 2015 ·Social Science Research ·Lazarus Adua, Richard York, (unknown)	30
8	Life satisfaction across nations: The effects of women’s political status and public priorities 2014 ·Social Science Research ·Richard York, Shannon Elizabeth Bell	34
9	Residualization is not the answer: Rethinking how to address multicollinearity 2012 ·Social Science Research ·Richard York	69
10	It's a Material World: Trends in Material Extraction in China, India, Indonesia, and Japan 2011 ·Nature and Culture ·Richard York, Christina Ergas, Eugene A. Rosa, Thomas Dietz	16
11	Population and consumption – a response to Meyerson 2010 ·Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment ·Eugene A. Rosa, Thomas Dietz, Richard York	1
12	Environmentally efficient weil-being: Rethinking sustainability as the relationship between human well-being and environmental impacts 2009 ·Thomas Dietz, Eugene A. Rosa, Richard York	127
13	The Challenges of Measuring Environmental Sustainability 2008 ·Political Research Quarterly ·Richard York	8
14	Economic Growth and Marine Biodiversity: Influence of Human Social Structure on Decline of Marine Trophic Levels 2007 ·Conservation Biology ·Rebecca Clausen, Richard York	52
15	Debunking as Positive Science 2006 ·Monthly Review ·Richard York, Brett Clark	1
16	Homo Floresisensis and Human Equality: Enduring Lessons from Stephen Jay Gould 2005 ·Monthly Review ·Richard York	1
17	Gender Equality and State Environmentalism 2005 ·Gender & Society ·Kari Marie Norgaard, Richard York	122
18	The Ecological Footprint Intensity of National Economies 2004 ·Journal of Industrial Ecology ·Richard York, Eugene A. Rosa, Thomas Dietz	139
19	Political Economy and Environmental Crisis 2004 ·Organization & Environment ·John Bellamy Foster, Richard York	11
20	Tracking the Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecological Impacts 2004 ·AMBIO ·Eugene A. Rosa, Richard York, Thomas Dietz	186

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