Andrew Jorgenson

I am a Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of the Climate & Society Lab at the University of British Columbia (UBC). I am also a Faculty Associate at UBC’s Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability, a Faculty Affiliate of both the Centre for Climate Justice and the Climate Solutions Collective at UBC, and a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Theoretical Economics at Vilnius University. As an environmental sociologist trained in global political economy, I conduct macro-comparative research on the human dimensions of global and regional environmental change, with a focus on the societal causes and consequences of the climate crisis. I also have longstanding interests in the political economy of development, inequality, and population health. While I embrace methodological pluralism, the majority of my research involves the use of statistical modeling techniques to analyze social and environmental data at multiple scales and through time.