Andrew Jorgenson is Professor and Chair of Sociology and Professor of Environmental Studies at Boston College. He conducts research on the human dimensions of environmental change, with a focus on how development, inequality and the structure of global production, and trade networks contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, industrial pollution, land cover change and relationships between environmental conditions and population health. In 2020, Andrew received the Fred Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award from the American Sociological Association for his innovation in environmental sociology. He currently serves as an author of the Fifth National Climate Assessment for the US Global Change Research Program.
