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Member, U.S. National Academies Committee to Advise the U.S. Global Change  Research Program

Principal Author, Chapter on Drivers, United Nations Environment  Programme  Global Environmental Outlook

Member, External Advisory Board, School of Global Environmental  Sustainability, Colorado State University

Turking Statistics: Student-generated Surveys Increase Student Engagement and Performance

Changes in Human Well-being and Rural Livelihoods Under Natural Disasters

What Drives Energy Consumers?: Engaging People in a Sustainable Energy Transition

Introduction to Social Statistics is a basic statistics textwith a focus on the use of models for thinking through statisticalproblems, an accessible and consistent structure with ongoingexamples across chapters, and an emphasis on the tools mostcommonly used in contemporary research. Lively introductory textbook that uses three strategies to helpstudents master statistics: use of models throughout; repetitionwith variation to underpin pedagogy; and emphasis on the tools mostcommonly used in contemporary researchDemonstrates how more than one statistical method can beused to approach a research questionEnhanced learning features include a ‘walk-through’of statistical concepts, applications, features, advanced topicsboxes, and a ‘What Have We Learned’ section at the endof each chapterSupported by a website containing instructor materialsincluding chapter-by-chapter PowerPoint slides, answers toexercises, and an instructor guideVisit www.wiley.com/go/dietz foradditional student and instructor resources.

Introduction to Social Statistics: The Logic of Statistical Reasoning

 People living in the Great Lakes region are already feeling the effects of a changing climate. Shifts in seasonal temperatures and precipitation patterns could have dramatic impacts on the economy, ecology, and quality of life. In this illuminating and thorough volume, leading scholars address the challenge of preparing for climate change in the region, where decision makers from various sectors―government, agriculture, recreation, and tourism―must increasingly be aware of the need to incorporate climate change into their short- and long-term planning. The chapters in this revealing book, written by some of the foremost climate change scholars in North America, outline the major trends in the climate of the Great Lakes region, how humans might cope with the uncertainty of climate change impacts, and examples of on-the-ground projects that have addressed these issues.

Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region: Navigating an Uncertain Future

Contents: "Introduction to Structural Human Ecology," by Thomas Dietz and Andrew K. Jorgenson "Metatheoretical Foundations of Post-Normal Prediction," by Richard York "Epistemology, Ontology and the Practice of Structural Human Ecology," byThomas Dietz "Perspectives on Risks and Concerns with Respect to Climate Engineering,"by Ortwin Renn, Nadine Bratchatzek, Sylvia Hiller and Dirk Scheer "Opportunities and Dilemmas in Managing Risk and Uncertainty," by Roger E. Kasperson "Design Principles for Governing Risks from Emerging Technologies," byPaul C. Stern "Energy and Electricity in Industrial Nations," by Allan Mazur "Population, Affluence, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Continuing Significance of Structural Human Ecology and the Utility of STIRPAT," by Andrew K. Jorgenson"The Implications of Structural Human Ecology for Environmental Concern's Global Reach," by Sandra T. Marquart-Pyatt "Context Matters: Eugene A. Rosa's Lessons for Structural Human Ecology,"by Thomas Dietz   

Structural Human Ecology: New Essays in Risk, Energy, and Sustainability

Thomas Dietz is a professor of Sociology and Environmental Science and Policy (ESPP). He holds a Ph.D. in ecology from the University of California, Davis, and a bachelor of general studies from Kent State University. At MSU he was founding director of the Environmental Science and Policy Program and associate dean in the colleges of Social Science, Agriculture and Natural Resources and Natural Science, assistant vice president for environmental research at Michigan State University.

At the National Research Council he has served on many panels including as chair of the U.S. National Research Council Committee on Human Dimensions of Global Change, the Panel on Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making, and as vice chair of the Panel on Advancing the Science of Climate Change of the America’s Climate Choices study.

Dietz is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has been awarded the Sustainability Science Award of the Ecological Society of America, the Distinguished Contribution Award of the American Sociological Association Section on Environment, Technology and Society, and the Outstanding Publication Award, also from the American Sociological Association Section onTom Dietz 2014 Environment, Technology and Society and the Gerald R. Young Book Award from the Society for Human Ecology. At the National Research Council he has served as chair of the U.S. National Research Council Committee on Human Dimensions of Global Change and the Panel on Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making, and currently is vice chair of the Panel on Advancing the Science of Climate Change of the America’s Climate Choices study.

Dietz has also served as secretary of Section K (Social, Economic, and Political Sciences) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is the former president of the Society for Human Ecology. He has co-authored or co-edited eleven books and more than 100 papers and book chapters. His current research examines the human driving forces of environmental change, environmental values and the interplay between science and democracy in environmental issues. Dietz is an active participant in the Animal Studies Program at MSU.

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