Select writings on the environment
3.5 °C in 2100? (with Raymond Bradley). Amherst MA: Political Economy Research Institute, July 2018.
The Political Economy of Climate Change in Muslim Societies and the World. Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, October 2018.
Making Them Pay (with Mark Paul). Jacobin, December 5, 2016.
Delhi's Air Pollution is a Classic Case of Environmental Injustice (with Aseem Shrivastava), The Guardian, March 9, 2016.
Let Them Drink Pollution? Institute for New Economic Thinking, January 26, 2016.
Amid Climate Change, What's More Important: Protecting Money or People? Los Angeles Times, December 22, 2014.
The Carbon Dividend. New York Times, July 30, 2014.
Climate Policy as Wealth Creation. Dollars & Sense, July 2014.
Justice Environnementale et Performance des Entreprises: Nouvelles Perspectives et Nouveaux Outils (with Michael Ash). Revue de l’OFCE/Débats et politiques (Paris: L’Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Economiques), 2011.
Globalization and the Environment: Convergence or Divergence? In Kevin Gallagher, ed., Handbook on Trade and the Environment. Northampton and Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2009.
Justice in the Air: Tracking Toxic Pollution from America’s Industries and Companies to our States, Cities, and Neighborhoods. Amherst, MA: Political Economy Research Institute, and Los Angeles, CA: University of Southern California, Program for Environmental & Regional Equity. April 2009.
Is Inequality Bad for the Environment? Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, 2008. Winner of the 2011 Fair Sharing of the Common Heritage Award.
A Chinese Sky Trust? Distributional Impacts of Carbon Charges and Revenue Recycling in China (with Mark Brenner and Matthew Riddle). Energy Policy, 2007.
Inequality and Environmental Protection. In Jean-Marie Baland, Pranab Bardhan, and Samuel Bowles, eds., Inequality, Collective Action, and Environmental Sustainability. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Land Reform and Sustainable Development (with Peter Rosset and Elizabeth A. Stanton). In James K. Boyce, Sunita Narain, and Elizabeth A. Stanton, eds., Reclaiming Nature: Environmental Justice and Ecological Restoration. London: Anthem Press, 2007.
A Future for Small Farms? Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture. In James K. Boyce, Stephen Cullenberg, Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Robert Pollin, eds., Human Development in the Era of Globalization: Essays in Honor of Keith B. Griffin. Northampton: Edward Elgar, 2006.
In the Wake of the Storm: Environment, Disaster, and Race After Katrina (with Manuel Pastor, Robert D. Bullard, Alice Fothergill, Rachel Morello-Frosch, and Beverly Wright). New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006.
Green and Brown? Globalization and the Environment. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2004.
The Ghost of Malthus. Review of Radical Political Economics, September 2003.
Where Credit is Due: Allocating Credit to Advance Environmental Goals (with Jane D’Arista). Challenge, May-June 2002.
Let Them Eat Risk: Wealth, Rights, and Disaster Vulnerability. Disasters, 2000.
Power Distribution, the Environment, and Public Health: A State-Level Analysis (with Andrew R. Klemer, Paul H. Templet, and Cleve E. Willis), Ecological Economics, 1999.
Income, Inequality, and Pollution: A Reassessment of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (with Mariano Torras), Ecological Economics, 1998.
Ecological Distribution, Agricultural Trade Liberalization, and In Situ Genetic Diversity. Journal of Income Distribution, 1996.
Jute, Polypropylene, and the Environment: A Study in International Trade and Market Failure. Bangladesh Development Studies, 1995.
Inequality as a Cause of Environmental Degradation. Ecological Economics, 1994.
Birth of a Megaproject: Political Economy of Flood Control in Bangladesh. Environmental Management, 1990.