Faculty Profiles

Culler, M., Wickham, J., Nash, M., & Clement, M. T. (2024). Impervious Cover Change as an Indicator of Environmental Equity. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 35(101247), 1–14.

Clement, M. T., Pino, N. W., & Blaustein, J. (2023). The Persistent Countervailing Consequences of Urbanization: A Longitudinal Study of Homicide Rates, 20(6), 1829–1851.

Clement, M. T., & Pino, N. W. (2023). Is Urbanization Sustainable? A Longitudinal Study of Developing Nations, 1990-2015. Environmental Sociology, 9(3), 327–347.

Southerland, V., Zota, A., Parasram, V., Alvarez, C., Clement, M. T., & Anenberg, S. (2023). Temporal Trends in Sociodemographic Composition and Land Development within U.S. Fenceline Communities Surrounding Hazardous Industrial Facilities: 2001–2019. Environmental Research Letters, 18.

Clement, M. T. (n.d.). Environment and Urbanization. In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology.

Clement, M. T., Dede-Bamfo, N., DeWaard, J., & Kim, S. (2023). The Interdependent Forces of Local Growth: A County-Level Study, 2001-2011. The Sociological Quarterly, 64(4), 564–586.

Pattison, A., Clement, M. T., & Habans, R. (2022). The Uneven Weight of Carbon on Policy: Towards a Framework for Understanding How Greenhouse Gas Inventories Can Inform Equitable Climate Policy Design. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 12(1), 81–90.

Clement, M. T., Pino, N. W., York, R., DeWaard, J., Dede-Bamfo, N., & Julius McGee. (2022). The Lagged Environmental Consequences of Demographic and Economic Change. Sociological Inquiry, 92(4), 1445–1465.

Ergas, C., McGee, J., Greiner, P., & Clement, M. T. (2021). Does Gender Climate Influence Climate Change? The Multidimensionality of Gender Equality and Its Countervailing Effects on the Carbon Intensity of Well-Being. Sustainability, 13(7), 3956.

Clement, M. T., Smith, C. L., & Leverenz-Soetaert, T. (2021). Quality of Life and the Carbon Footprint: A Zip-Code Level Study Across the United States. The Journal of Environment & Development, 30(4), 323–343.

Leon-Corwin, M., Clement, M. T., & Smith, C. L. (2020). Are Global Neighborhoods in Houston Less Polluted? A Spatial Analysis of 21st Century Urban Demographics. Human Ecology Review, 26(1), 117–139.

Clement, M. T., & Alvarez, C. (2020). The Inequality of Mundane Environmental Change: Assessing the Impacts of Socioeconomic Status and Race on Neighborhood Land Development, 2001-2011. Sociological Perspectives, 63(2), 292–311.

McGee, J., Ergas, C., Greiner, P., Christensen, M., & Clement, M. T. (2020). Gender Inequality, Reproductive Justice, and Decoupling Economic Growth and Emissions: A Panel Analysis of the Moderating Association of Gender Equality on the Relationship between Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions. Environmental Sociology, 6(3), 254–267.

Clement, M. T., Pino, N. W., Greiner, P., & McGee, J. (2020). Are the Goals of Sustainability Interconnected? A Sociological Analysis of the Three E’s of Sustainable Development Using Cross-lagged Models with Reciprocal Effects. Sociology of Development, 6(1), 91–115.

Habans, R., Clement, M. T., & Pattison, A. (2019). Carbon Emissions and Climate Policy Support by Local Governments in California:  A Qualitative Comparative Analysis at the County-Level. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 9, 255–269.

Clement, M. T., Pino, N. W., & Blaustein, J. (2019). Homicide Rates and the Multiple Dimensions of Urbanization: A Longitudinal Cross-National Analysis. Sustainability, 11(5855), 1–16.

McGee, J., Ergas, C., & Clement, M. T. (2018). Racing to Reduce Emissions: Assessing the Relationship between Race and Environmental Impacts from Transportation. Sociology of Development, 4(2), 217–236.

Elliott, J. R., & Clement, M. T. (2017). Natural Hazards and Local Development:  The Successive Nature of Landscape Transformation in the United States. Social Forces, 96(2), 851–876.

Clement, M. T., & York, R. (2017). The Asymmetric Environmental Consequences of Population Change: An Exploratory County-Level Study of Land Development in the United States, 2001-2011. Population and Environment, 39(1), 47–68.

McGee, J., Ergas, C., Greiner, P., & Clement, M. T. (2017). How Do Slums Change the Relationship between Urbanization and the Carbon Intensity of Well-being? PLoS ONE, 12(1), 1–12.

Clement, M. T., Pattison, A., & Habans, R. (2017). Scaling Down the “Netherlands Fallacy”: A Local-Level Quantitative Study of the Effect of Affluence on the Carbon Footprint across the United States. Environmental Science and Policy, 78, 1–8.

Ergas, C., & Clement, M. T. (2016). Ecovillages, Restitution, and the Political-Economic Opportunity Structure: An Urban Case Study in Mitigating the Metabolic Rift. Critical Sociology, 42(7–8), 1195–1211.

Ergas, C., Clement, M. T., & McGee, J. (2016). Urban Density and the Metabolic Reach of Metropolitan Areas: A Panel Analysis of Per Capita Transportation Emissions at the County-Level. Social Science Research, 58, 243–253.

Clement, M. T. (2016). Urbanization, Land Use, and Environmental Change: A Sociological Perspective. In A. Thomas & G. Fulkerson (Eds.), Reinventing Rural (pp. 77–98). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Elliott, J. R., & Clement, M. T. (2015). Developing Spatial Inequalities in Carbon Appropriation: A Sociological Analysis of Changing Local Emissions across the United States. Social Science Research, 51, 119–131.

Clement, M. T., Ergas, C., & Greiner, P. (2015). The Environmental Consequences of Rural and Urban Population Change: An Exploratory Spatial Panel Study of Forest Cover in the Southern United States, 2001-2006. Rural Sociology, 80(1), 108–136.

McGee, J., Clement, M. T., & Besek, J. (2015). The Impacts of Technology: A Re-evaluation of the STIRPAT Model. Environmental Sociology, 1(2), 81–91.

Clement, M. T., Chi, G., & Ho, H. C. (2015). Urbanization and Land Use Change: A Human Ecology of Deforestation Across the United States, 2001-2006. Sociological Inquiry, 85(4), 628–653.

Clement, M. T. (2015). Community Gardening. In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology.

Clement, M. T. (2015). Environment and Urbanization. In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology.

Pattison, A., Clement, M. T., & Habans, R. (2014). Ecological Modernization or Aristocratic Conservation: Exploring the Impact of Affluence on Emissions. Society and Natural Resources, 27(8), 850–866.

Elliott, J. R., & Clement, M. T. (2014). Urbanization and Carbon Emissions: A Nationwide Study of Local Countervailing Effects in the United States. Social Science Quarterly, 95(2), 795–816.

Clement, M. T., & Podowski, E. (2013). Intensifying the Countryside: A Sociological Study of Cropland Lost to the Built Environment in the United States, 2001-2006. Social Forces, 92(2), 815–838.

Clement, M. T. (2012). Review of Cities under siege: The new military urbanism [Review of Cities under siege: The new military urbanism, by S. Graham]. Monthly Review.

Clement, M. T., & Elliott, J. R. (2012). Growth Machines and Carbon Emissions: A County-Level Analysis of How U.S. Place-Making Contributes to Global Climate Change. In H. William (Ed.), Research in Urban Studies: Urban Areas and Climate Change. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Clement, M. T. (2011). “Let Them Build Sea Walls”: Ecological Crisis, Economic Crisis and the Political Economic Opportunity Structure. Critical Sociology, 37(4), 447–463.

Clement, M. T., & Schultz, J. (2011). Political Economy, Ecological Modernization and Energy Use: A Panel Analysis of State-Level Energy Use in the United States of America, 1960-1990. Sociological Forum, 26(3), 581–600.

Clement, M. T. (2011). The Jevons Paradox and Anthropogenic Global Warming: A Panel Analysis of State-Level Carbon Emissions in the United States, 1963-1997. Society & Natural Resources, 24(9), 951–961.

Clement, M. T. (2011). The Town-Country Antithesis and the Environment:  A Sociological Critique of a “Real Utopian” Project. Organization & Environment, 24(3), 292–311.

Clement, M. T. (2011). Community Gardening. In Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology.

Clement, M. (2010). A Critical Human Ecology of Water Use at the County-Level in Texas, 2002. Human Ecology Review, 17(1), 34–43.

Clement, M. (2010). Urbanization and the Natural Environment: An Environmental Sociological Review and Synthesis. Organization & Environment, 23(3), 271–290.

Clement, M. T. (2010). Urbanization, Gender and Energy in World History. It’s Getting Hot in Here. Retrieved from itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/05/26/urbanization-gender-and-energy-in-world-history/

Clement, M. T. (2010). Review of Catastrophe in the making: The engineering of Katrina and the disasters of tomorrow [Review of Catastrophe in the making: The engineering of Katrina and the disasters of tomorrow, by K. Erikson, R. Gramling, W. R. Freudenburg, & S. B. Laska]. Organization & Environment. Organization & Environment.

Clement, M. T. (2009). A Basic Accounting of Municipal Solid Waste Generation in Texas, 2006: Groundwork for Applying Metabolic Rift Theory to Waste. Rural Sociology, 74(3), 412–429.

Clement, M. T. (2009). Energy (and Empire) in World History. MRZine. Retrieved from mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2009/clement010509.html

Clement, M. T., Markowitz, E., & Bowerman, T. (2009). Are Environmental Sociologists Looking at Reducing Consumption? Newsletter of the Section on Environment, Technology and Society of the American Sociological Association.

Clement, M. T. (2008). Is Rising Global Inequality a Myth? MRZine. Retrieved from http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2008/clement190808.html

Clement, M. T. (2008). The Failure of Climate Change Economics. MRZine. Retrieved from http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2008/clement150108.html

Clement, M. T. (2004). Rice Imperialism: The Agribusiness Threat to Third World Rice Production. Monthly Review, 55(9), 15–22.