Scholarly Articles and Chapters
2017 "Climate change and the transition to neoliberal environmental governance." David Ciplet and J. Timmons Roberts. Global Environmental Change, Vol 46, 148-156.
2017 "Global issue, developed country bias: the Paris climate conference as covered by daily print news organizations in 13 nations." Sonya Gurwitt, Kari Malkki, and Mili Mitra. Climatic Change.
2017 “Postface: Fragmentation, failing trust and enduring tensions over what counts as climate finance." J. Timmons Roberts, Romain Weikmans. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Vol 17:1, 129-137.
2017 (forthcoming--accepted for publication). “Élaborer un système robuste de comptabilisation du financement climatique international.” Romain Weikmans, J. Timmons Roberts. Liaison Energie-Francophonie.
2017 “How will we pay for Loss and Damage?” J. Timmons Roberts, Sujay Natson, Victoria Hoffmeister, Alexis Durand, Romain Weikmans, Jonathan Gewirtzman, and Saleemul Huq. Ethics, Policy, and Environment, Vol 20: 2, 206-226. Andrew Light, Editor.
2017 “Assessing the credibility of how climate adaptation aid projects are categorised.” Romain Weikmans, J. Timmons Roberts, Jeffery Baum, Camila Bustos, Alexis Durand. Development in Practice, Vol 27: 4, 458-471.
2016 "Why Equity is fundamental in climate change policy research." Sonja Klinsky, Timmons Roberts, Saleemul Huq, Chukwumerije Okereke, Peter Newell, Peter Dauvergne, Karen O’Brien, Heike Schroeder, Petra Tschakert, Jennifer Clapp, Margaret Keck, Frank Biermann, Diana Liverman, Joyeeta Gupta, Atiq Rahman, Dirk Messner, David Pellow, Steffen Bauer. Global Environmental Change.
2016 “Small group, big impact: how AILAC helped shape the Paris Agreement." Guy Edwards, Isabel Cavelier Adarve, María Camila Bustos and J. Timmons Roberts. Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2016.1240655.
2016 "Roadmap towards justice in urban climate adaptation research." Linda Shi, Eric Chu, Isabelle Anguelovski, Alexander Aylett, Jessica Debats, Kian Goh, Todd Schenk, Karen C. Seto, David Dodman, Debra Roberts, J. Timmons Roberts & Stacy D. VanDeveer. Nature Climate Change 6: 131–137. doi:10.1038/nclimate2841. Published online 27 January 2016.
2016 "Geopolitics." Ciplet, David, Timmons Roberts and Mizan Khan. In Research Handbook on Climate Governance, edited by Karin Bäckstrand and Eva Lövbrand. Edward Elgar. Chapter 10.
2016 "Climate Justice and Inequality." Sharon L. Harlan, David N. Pellow and J. Timmons Roberts. p. 127-163 in Climate Change and Society: Sociological Perspectives, Riley E. Dunlap and Robert J. Brulle, Editors. Report of the American Sociological Association’s Task Force on Sociology and Global Climate Change. Oxford University Press.
2016 “Roadmap towards justice in urban climate adaptation research.” Linda Shi, Eric Chu, Isabelle Anguelovski, Alexander Aylett, Jessica Debats, Kian Goh, Todd Schenk, Karen C. Seto, David Dodman, Debra Roberts, J. Timmons Roberts & Stacy D. VanDeveer. Nature Climate Change 6: 131–137. Published online 27 January 2016.
2015 "Adaptation to Climate Change." JoAnn Carmin, Kathleen Tierney, Eric Chu, Lori M. Hunter, J. Timmons Roberts and Linda Shi. P. 164-198 in Climate Change and Society: Sociological Perspectives, Riley E. Dunlap and Robert J. Brulle, Editors. Report of the American Sociological Association’s Task Force on Sociology and Global Climate Change. Oxford University Press.
2015 “Acting on Climate Finance Pledges: Inter-Agency Dynamics and Relationships with Aid in Contributor States.” Jonathan Pickering, Jakob Skovgaard, Soyeun Kim, J. Timmons Roberts, David Rossati, Martin Stadelmann, and Hendrikje Reich. World Development. Forthcoming.
2015 "Exploring the use of online platforms for climate change policy and public engagement by NGOs in Latin America." Bruno Takahashi, Guy Edwards, J. Timmons Roberts and Ran Duan. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, January 2015.
2015 "Interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability education: islands of progress in a sea of dysfunction." Shirley Vincent, J. Timmons Roberts, and Stephen Mulkey. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences (2015): 1-7.
2014 "Transitions in pathways of human development and carbon emissions.” W.F. Lamb, J.K. Steinberger, A. Bows-Larkin, G.P. Peters, J. Timmons Roberts. Environmental Research Letters 9 (1), 014011
2014 "A Compromise to Break the Climate Impasse." Marco Grasso and Timmons Roberts. Nature Climate Change.
Published online 8 June. doi:10.1038/nclimate2259
2013 "Biodiversity, governance, and the allocation of international aid for conservation." Daniel C. Miller, Arun Agrawal, and J. Timmons Roberts. Conservation Letters 6.1 (2013): 12-20.
2013 "Difficulties in accounting for private finance in international climate policy." Martin Stadelmann, Axel Michaelowa, and J. Timmons Roberts. Climate Policy 13(6):718-737
2013 “No Talk, but Some Walk: The Obama Administration’s First Term Rhetoric on Climate Change and its International Climate Budget Commitments.” Graciela Kincaid and J. Timmons Roberts. Global Environmental Politics 13(4) Forthcoming, 2013. Available online here.
2013 “The Climate and Development Lab: An Experiment in Engaged Education for Global Just Sustainability” Ciplet, David, Timmons Roberts and Guy Edwards Journal of Sustainability of Education, Available online http://bit.ly/ZKbMPU
2013 “The impact of climate change on human security in Latin America and the Caribbean” Úrsula Oswald Spring, Hans Günter Brauch, Guy Edwards and J. Timmons Roberts in Climate change and Human Security Handbook, Michael Redclift and Marco Grasso (eds.) Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. More information available here.
2013 “The Politics of International Climate Adaptation Funding: Justice and Divisions in the Greenhouse.” David Ciplet, J. Timmons Roberts, and Mizan Khan. Global Environmental Politics, 12(2).
2013 “Targeting global conservation funding to limit immediate biodiversity declines.” Anthony Waldron, Arne O. Mooers, Daniel C. Miller, Nate Nibbelink, David Redding, Tyler S. Kuhn, J. Timmons Roberts, and John L. Gittleman. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. PNAS Early Edition July 1, 2013.
2013 "Turkey's biodiversity funding on the rise." Waldron, A., Sekercioglu, C. H., Miller, D. C., Mooers, A. O., Roberts, J. T., & Gittleman, J. L. Science (New York, NY), 341(6151), 1173-1173.
2013 “Adaptation and International Climate Policy.” Mizan Khan and J. Timmons Roberts.Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews—WIREs–Climate Change. Volume 4, Issue 3, pages 171–189, May/June 2013.
2012 “National emissions pathways and human development: correcting for carbon embodied in trade.” Julia Steinberger, J. Timmons Roberts, Glen Peters, and Giovanni Baiocchi. Forthcoming in Nature: Climate Change.
2012 “‘The State of Latin American and European relations in an age of uncertainty and opportunity” Edwards, Guy and Mendizabal, Enrique in Latin America in the Globalization Age: Hopes and Fears (eds.) Manuela Nilsson and Jan Gustafsson, Palgrave Macmillan, UK
2011 “Multipolarity and the New World dis(Order): US Hegemonic Decline and the Fragmentation of the Global Climate Regime.” J. Timmons Roberts. Global Environmental Change, Vol. 21 No. 3. Lead article in special issue on “Social Theory and the Environment in the New World dis(Order)” David Sonnenfeld and Arthur Mol, Editors.
2011 “Keeping a big promise: options for baselines to assess ‘new and additional’ climate finance.” Martin Stadelmann, J. Timmons Roberts, and Axel Michaelowa. Climate and Development Vol. 3 No. 3: 175-192 (lead article).
2011 “New and additional to what? Assessing options for baselines to assess climate finance pledges.” Martin Stadelmann, J. Timmons Roberts, and Axel Michaelowa. Climate and Development Vol. 3 No. 3: 175-192.
2011 “Political Economy of the Environment.” Thomas K. Rudel, J. Timmons Roberts, and JoAnn Carmin. Annual Review of Sociology 37, 221-238.
2011 “Social Development Aspects of Kyoto Protocol Clean Development Mechanism Projects: A Review of Six Hydroelectricity Projects in Brazil and Peru.” John C. Cole and J. Timmons Roberts. Climate and Development.
2010 “From Constraint to Sufficiency: The Decoupling of Energy and Carbon from Human Needs, 1975-2005.” Julia K. Steinberger and J. Timmons Roberts. Ecological Economics 70: 425-433.
2010 “Climate Change, Social Theory, and Justice.” Bradley C. Parks and J. Timmons Roberts. Theory, Culture and Society. Vol 27 (2-3): 1-32.
2010 “Addressing Inequality and Building Trust to Secure a Post-2012 Global Climate Deal”Bradley C. Parks and J. Timmons Roberts. In Maxwell Boykoff (Editor) The Politics of Climate Change: A Survey. London: Routledge/Europa.
2010 “Structural Obstacles to an Effective Post-2012 Global Climate Agreement: Why Social Structure Matters and How Addressing it Can Help Break the Impasse.” Bradley C. Parks and J. Timmons Roberts. The International Handbook of Environmental Sociology, Second Edition. Edited by Michael R. Redclift and Graham Woodgate. London: Edward Elgar.
2010 “A ‘Shared Vision’ of Global Climate Policy: Why Inequality Must Be Addressed to Build a Durable North-South Consensus.” J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley C. Parks. Forthcoming in Climate Change, Ethics and Human Security, edited by Karen O’Brien, Asuncion Lera St. Clair and Berit Kristoffersen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2009 “Environmental Justice.” Paul Mohai, David Pellow, and J. Timmons Roberts. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 34:16.1-16.26.
2015 Translated into French and Abridged as “Dechets et Racisme environnemental: genese et reconnaissance du problem aux Etats- Unis.” LaRevueDurable No. 54: 22-25.
2009 “The International Dimension of Climate Justice and the Need for International Adaptation Funding.” J. Timmons Roberts. Environmental Justice, Volume 2, Number 4.
2009 “How can the Clean Development Mechanism better contribute to sustainable development?” Nathan E. Hultman, Emily Boyd, J. Timmons Roberts, John Cole, Esteve Corbera, Johannes Ebeling, Katrina Brown, and Diana M. Liverman. Ambio 38(2):120-122.
2009 “Ecologically Unequal Exchange, Ecological Debt, and Climate Justice: The History and Implications of Three Related Ideas for a New Social Movement.” J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley C. Parks. International Journal of Comparative Sociology Vol. 50(3–4): 381–408.
2017 "Global issue, developed country bias: the Paris climate conference as covered by daily print news organizations in 13 nations." Sonya Gurwitt, Kari Malkki, and Mili Mitra. Climatic Change.
2017 “Postface: Fragmentation, failing trust and enduring tensions over what counts as climate finance." J. Timmons Roberts, Romain Weikmans. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Vol 17:1, 129-137.
2017 (forthcoming--accepted for publication). “Élaborer un système robuste de comptabilisation du financement climatique international.” Romain Weikmans, J. Timmons Roberts. Liaison Energie-Francophonie.
2017 “How will we pay for Loss and Damage?” J. Timmons Roberts, Sujay Natson, Victoria Hoffmeister, Alexis Durand, Romain Weikmans, Jonathan Gewirtzman, and Saleemul Huq. Ethics, Policy, and Environment, Vol 20: 2, 206-226. Andrew Light, Editor.
2017 “Assessing the credibility of how climate adaptation aid projects are categorised.” Romain Weikmans, J. Timmons Roberts, Jeffery Baum, Camila Bustos, Alexis Durand. Development in Practice, Vol 27: 4, 458-471.
2016 "Why Equity is fundamental in climate change policy research." Sonja Klinsky, Timmons Roberts, Saleemul Huq, Chukwumerije Okereke, Peter Newell, Peter Dauvergne, Karen O’Brien, Heike Schroeder, Petra Tschakert, Jennifer Clapp, Margaret Keck, Frank Biermann, Diana Liverman, Joyeeta Gupta, Atiq Rahman, Dirk Messner, David Pellow, Steffen Bauer. Global Environmental Change.
2016 “Small group, big impact: how AILAC helped shape the Paris Agreement." Guy Edwards, Isabel Cavelier Adarve, María Camila Bustos and J. Timmons Roberts. Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2016.1240655.
2016 "Roadmap towards justice in urban climate adaptation research." Linda Shi, Eric Chu, Isabelle Anguelovski, Alexander Aylett, Jessica Debats, Kian Goh, Todd Schenk, Karen C. Seto, David Dodman, Debra Roberts, J. Timmons Roberts & Stacy D. VanDeveer. Nature Climate Change 6: 131–137. doi:10.1038/nclimate2841. Published online 27 January 2016.
2016 "Geopolitics." Ciplet, David, Timmons Roberts and Mizan Khan. In Research Handbook on Climate Governance, edited by Karin Bäckstrand and Eva Lövbrand. Edward Elgar. Chapter 10.
2016 "Climate Justice and Inequality." Sharon L. Harlan, David N. Pellow and J. Timmons Roberts. p. 127-163 in Climate Change and Society: Sociological Perspectives, Riley E. Dunlap and Robert J. Brulle, Editors. Report of the American Sociological Association’s Task Force on Sociology and Global Climate Change. Oxford University Press.
2016 “Roadmap towards justice in urban climate adaptation research.” Linda Shi, Eric Chu, Isabelle Anguelovski, Alexander Aylett, Jessica Debats, Kian Goh, Todd Schenk, Karen C. Seto, David Dodman, Debra Roberts, J. Timmons Roberts & Stacy D. VanDeveer. Nature Climate Change 6: 131–137. Published online 27 January 2016.
2015 "Adaptation to Climate Change." JoAnn Carmin, Kathleen Tierney, Eric Chu, Lori M. Hunter, J. Timmons Roberts and Linda Shi. P. 164-198 in Climate Change and Society: Sociological Perspectives, Riley E. Dunlap and Robert J. Brulle, Editors. Report of the American Sociological Association’s Task Force on Sociology and Global Climate Change. Oxford University Press.
2015 “Acting on Climate Finance Pledges: Inter-Agency Dynamics and Relationships with Aid in Contributor States.” Jonathan Pickering, Jakob Skovgaard, Soyeun Kim, J. Timmons Roberts, David Rossati, Martin Stadelmann, and Hendrikje Reich. World Development. Forthcoming.
2015 "Exploring the use of online platforms for climate change policy and public engagement by NGOs in Latin America." Bruno Takahashi, Guy Edwards, J. Timmons Roberts and Ran Duan. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, January 2015.
2015 "Interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability education: islands of progress in a sea of dysfunction." Shirley Vincent, J. Timmons Roberts, and Stephen Mulkey. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences (2015): 1-7.
2014 "Transitions in pathways of human development and carbon emissions.” W.F. Lamb, J.K. Steinberger, A. Bows-Larkin, G.P. Peters, J. Timmons Roberts. Environmental Research Letters 9 (1), 014011
2014 "A Compromise to Break the Climate Impasse." Marco Grasso and Timmons Roberts. Nature Climate Change.
Published online 8 June. doi:10.1038/nclimate2259
2013 "Biodiversity, governance, and the allocation of international aid for conservation." Daniel C. Miller, Arun Agrawal, and J. Timmons Roberts. Conservation Letters 6.1 (2013): 12-20.
2013 "Difficulties in accounting for private finance in international climate policy." Martin Stadelmann, Axel Michaelowa, and J. Timmons Roberts. Climate Policy 13(6):718-737
2013 “No Talk, but Some Walk: The Obama Administration’s First Term Rhetoric on Climate Change and its International Climate Budget Commitments.” Graciela Kincaid and J. Timmons Roberts. Global Environmental Politics 13(4) Forthcoming, 2013. Available online here.
2013 “The Climate and Development Lab: An Experiment in Engaged Education for Global Just Sustainability” Ciplet, David, Timmons Roberts and Guy Edwards Journal of Sustainability of Education, Available online http://bit.ly/ZKbMPU
2013 “The impact of climate change on human security in Latin America and the Caribbean” Úrsula Oswald Spring, Hans Günter Brauch, Guy Edwards and J. Timmons Roberts in Climate change and Human Security Handbook, Michael Redclift and Marco Grasso (eds.) Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. More information available here.
2013 “The Politics of International Climate Adaptation Funding: Justice and Divisions in the Greenhouse.” David Ciplet, J. Timmons Roberts, and Mizan Khan. Global Environmental Politics, 12(2).
2013 “Targeting global conservation funding to limit immediate biodiversity declines.” Anthony Waldron, Arne O. Mooers, Daniel C. Miller, Nate Nibbelink, David Redding, Tyler S. Kuhn, J. Timmons Roberts, and John L. Gittleman. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. PNAS Early Edition July 1, 2013.
2013 "Turkey's biodiversity funding on the rise." Waldron, A., Sekercioglu, C. H., Miller, D. C., Mooers, A. O., Roberts, J. T., & Gittleman, J. L. Science (New York, NY), 341(6151), 1173-1173.
2013 “Adaptation and International Climate Policy.” Mizan Khan and J. Timmons Roberts.Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews—WIREs–Climate Change. Volume 4, Issue 3, pages 171–189, May/June 2013.
2012 “National emissions pathways and human development: correcting for carbon embodied in trade.” Julia Steinberger, J. Timmons Roberts, Glen Peters, and Giovanni Baiocchi. Forthcoming in Nature: Climate Change.
2012 “‘The State of Latin American and European relations in an age of uncertainty and opportunity” Edwards, Guy and Mendizabal, Enrique in Latin America in the Globalization Age: Hopes and Fears (eds.) Manuela Nilsson and Jan Gustafsson, Palgrave Macmillan, UK
2011 “Multipolarity and the New World dis(Order): US Hegemonic Decline and the Fragmentation of the Global Climate Regime.” J. Timmons Roberts. Global Environmental Change, Vol. 21 No. 3. Lead article in special issue on “Social Theory and the Environment in the New World dis(Order)” David Sonnenfeld and Arthur Mol, Editors.
2011 “Keeping a big promise: options for baselines to assess ‘new and additional’ climate finance.” Martin Stadelmann, J. Timmons Roberts, and Axel Michaelowa. Climate and Development Vol. 3 No. 3: 175-192 (lead article).
2011 “New and additional to what? Assessing options for baselines to assess climate finance pledges.” Martin Stadelmann, J. Timmons Roberts, and Axel Michaelowa. Climate and Development Vol. 3 No. 3: 175-192.
2011 “Political Economy of the Environment.” Thomas K. Rudel, J. Timmons Roberts, and JoAnn Carmin. Annual Review of Sociology 37, 221-238.
2011 “Social Development Aspects of Kyoto Protocol Clean Development Mechanism Projects: A Review of Six Hydroelectricity Projects in Brazil and Peru.” John C. Cole and J. Timmons Roberts. Climate and Development.
2010 “From Constraint to Sufficiency: The Decoupling of Energy and Carbon from Human Needs, 1975-2005.” Julia K. Steinberger and J. Timmons Roberts. Ecological Economics 70: 425-433.
2010 “Climate Change, Social Theory, and Justice.” Bradley C. Parks and J. Timmons Roberts. Theory, Culture and Society. Vol 27 (2-3): 1-32.
2010 “Addressing Inequality and Building Trust to Secure a Post-2012 Global Climate Deal”Bradley C. Parks and J. Timmons Roberts. In Maxwell Boykoff (Editor) The Politics of Climate Change: A Survey. London: Routledge/Europa.
2010 “Structural Obstacles to an Effective Post-2012 Global Climate Agreement: Why Social Structure Matters and How Addressing it Can Help Break the Impasse.” Bradley C. Parks and J. Timmons Roberts. The International Handbook of Environmental Sociology, Second Edition. Edited by Michael R. Redclift and Graham Woodgate. London: Edward Elgar.
2010 “A ‘Shared Vision’ of Global Climate Policy: Why Inequality Must Be Addressed to Build a Durable North-South Consensus.” J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley C. Parks. Forthcoming in Climate Change, Ethics and Human Security, edited by Karen O’Brien, Asuncion Lera St. Clair and Berit Kristoffersen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2009 “Environmental Justice.” Paul Mohai, David Pellow, and J. Timmons Roberts. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 34:16.1-16.26.
2015 Translated into French and Abridged as “Dechets et Racisme environnemental: genese et reconnaissance du problem aux Etats- Unis.” LaRevueDurable No. 54: 22-25.
2009 “The International Dimension of Climate Justice and the Need for International Adaptation Funding.” J. Timmons Roberts. Environmental Justice, Volume 2, Number 4.
2009 “How can the Clean Development Mechanism better contribute to sustainable development?” Nathan E. Hultman, Emily Boyd, J. Timmons Roberts, John Cole, Esteve Corbera, Johannes Ebeling, Katrina Brown, and Diana M. Liverman. Ambio 38(2):120-122.
2009 “Ecologically Unequal Exchange, Ecological Debt, and Climate Justice: The History and Implications of Three Related Ideas for a New Social Movement.” J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley C. Parks. International Journal of Comparative Sociology Vol. 50(3–4): 381–408.
