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Past Event
Seminar

Climate Change Denial and the Conservative Movement with Riley Dunlap

RSVP Required Open to the Public

A discussion with Riley E. Dunlap, Regents Professor of Sociology and Lawrence L. and Georgia Ina Dresser Professor at Oklahoma State University.

Date: Time: - Location: Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369

About

Please join the Environment and Natural Resources Program and the Sustainability Science Program for a special seminar with:

Riley Dunlap
Regents Professor of Sociology and Lawrence L. and Georgia Ina Dresser Professor, Oklahoma State University

A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Psychological Association, Dunlap has served as President of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Environment and Society and the American Sociological Association’s Section on Environment and Technology. He is presently serving as Chair of the ASA Task Force on Sociology and Global Climate Change.

Dunlap’s current research focuses primarily on the nature and sources of climate change denial and political polarization over climate change among the American public, and he has published several recent articles and chapters on these interrelated topics.