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Book Project
in progress
Ecology and Society: The social origins of ecological value (monograph)
Ecology and Society uses a cross-national comparison of biodiversity offsetting schemes in the United States and Germany to develop a first-of-its-kind sociological treatment of ecological valuation and environmental governance in the Anthropocene.
Journal Articles
2023
Romero-Lanko, Patricia; Nicole Rosner, Christof Brandtner, Christopher M. Rea, Adolfo Mejia-Montero, Francesca Pilo, Fedor Dokshin, Vanesa Castán-Broto, Sarah Burch, Scott Schnur. “A Framework to Center Justice in Energy Transition Innovations.” Nature Energy.
2023
Rea, Christopher M. and Scott Frickel “The Environmental State: Nature and the Politics of Environmental Protection.” Sociological Theory. 41(3), 255-281.
2023
Casellas Connors, John P., Elizabeth A. Carlino, and Christopher M. Rea. “The Eco-munitionary Subject: Conservation with and of firearms.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space.
2022
Casellas Connors, John P. and Christopher M. Rea. “Violent Entanglements: The Pittman-Robertson Act, Firearms, and the Funding of Conservation.” Conservation and Society 20(1), 24-35.
Press coverage:
The New Lede, March 1, 2023
New York Times, August 26, 2022
Environmental Health News, May 31, 2022
The Globe and Mail, May 29, 2022
2020
Frickel, Scott and Christopher M. Rea. “Drought, Hurricane, or Tornado? Assessing the Trump Administration’s Anti-Science Disaster.” Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 6, 66-75.
2019
Rea, Christopher M. “The EU Emissions Trading Scheme: Protection via Commodification?” Culture, Practice & Europeanization 4(1), 48-73. (data and code)
2019
Lockhart, Andy and Christopher M. Rea (equal authorship). “Why there and then, not here and now? Ecological offsetting in California and England, and the sharpening contradictions of neoliberal natures.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 2(3), 665-693.
2018
Rea, Christopher M. “Regulatory thickening and the politics of market-oriented environmental policy.” Environmental Politics 28(7), 1167-1191.
2017
Rea, Christopher M. “Theorizing command-and-commodify regulation: the case of species conservation banking in the United States.” Theory & Society 46(1), 21-56.
2017 Edward Shils – James Coleman Memorial Award for Best Student Paper, Honorable Mention. American Sociological Association, Theory Section.
2016 Early Career Workshop Award, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE).
2016
Walker, Edward T. and Christopher M. Rea. “Pediatric Care Provider Density and Personal Belief Exemptions From Vaccine Requirements in California Kindergartens.” American Journal of Public Health 106(7), 1336-1341.
2015
Rea, Christopher M. “Commodifying Conservation.” Contexts 14(1), 72-3.
2014
Walker, Edward T. and Christopher M. Rea. “The Political Mobilization of Firms and Industries.” Annual Review of Sociology 40, 281-304.