Stuart, D. 2025. Something new, something better: The climate crisis and social transformation. Journal of International Political Theory
Stuart, D. 2025. The critical need to counter climate doomism. Environmental Sociology
Stuart, D., R. Gunderson, and B. Petersen. 2025. Is a new economic system necessary to address climate change? Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change.
Eskridge-Aldama, P., A. Stern, A. Vaughn, and D. Stuart. 2025. Green growth or degrowth? Possible outcomes for climate and society. Highlights of Sustainability
Stuart, D, B. Petersen, and R. Gunderson. 2024. Addressing the irrational drivers of the climate crisis: surplus repression and destructive production. Nature & Culture
Stuart, D. 2024. The human crisis revisited: Albert Camus and climate rebellion. Critical Horizons.
Stuart, D., R. Gunderson, and B. Petersen. 2023. Revisiting Marcuse’s technological rationality: nuclear fusion advancement in the age of climate change. Critical Sociology
Abercrombie, S, D. Stuart, C. Aslan, S. Souther, B. Petersen. 2023. Training community engaged climate adaptation leaders using multiple case study analysis: insights from cognitive learning sciences. Frontiers in Climate
Gunderson, R., D. Stuart, and B. Petersen. 2020. The fossil fuel industry’s framing of carbon capture and storage: Faith in innovation, value instrumentalization, and status quo maintenance. Journal of Cleaner Production
Gunderson, R., D. Stuart, and M. Houser. 2019. A political-economic theory of relevance: explaining climate change inaction. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
Gunderson, R., D. Stuart, B. Petersen, and S. Yun. 2018. Social conditions to better realize the gains of “green” technology: degrowth and collective ownership. Futures
Gunderson, R., B. Petersen, and D. Stuart. 2018. A critical examination of geoengineering: from how to why. Sustainability
Gunderson, R., Stuart, D. and B. Petersen. 2018. The political economy of geoengineering as Plan B. New Political Economy
Article highlighted in: News & Views: Givens, Jennifer E. 2018. “Geoengineering in Context.” Nature Sustainability 1(9):459-460.
Gunderson, R., D. Stuart and B. Petersen. 2025. The political economy of amphibian decline. Reptiles & Amphibians
Souther, S., D., Stuart, and C. Aslan. 2025. Traditional harvest systems as models for advancing understanding of dynamic and resilient socio-ecological systems. Ecosphere
Stuart, D., and R. Gunderson. 2019. Human-animal relations in the capitalocene: environmental impacts and alternatives. Environmental Sociology
Stuart, D., and J. Bell-Rizzolo. 2019. Conservation biologists and the representation of at-risk species: navigating tensions in an evolving value-laden discipline. Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
Petersen, B. , Aslan, C. E., Stuart, D. L., and Beier, P. 2018. Incorporating social and ecological adaptive capacity into vulnerability assessments and adaptation decisions for conservation. BioScience
Stuart, D., and R. Gunderson. 2018. Animals as fictitious commodities: exploitation and consequences in industrial agriculture. Society and Animals
Petersen, B., and D. Stuart. 2017. Navigating critical thresholds in natural resource management: a case study of Olympic National Park. Journal of Extreme Events
Gunderson, R., D. Stuart, and B. Petersen. 2016. Factory Farming: Impacts and Potential Solutions. In Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions 2016. Bristol, UK: Policy Press
Petersen, B., and D. Stuart. 2014. Explanations of a changing landscape: a critical examination of the British Columbia bark beetle epidemic. Environment and Planning A
Stuart, D., and S. Gillon. 2013. Scaling up to address new challenges to conservation on US farmland. Land Use Policy
Stuart, D., R.L. Schewe, and R. Gunderson. 2013. Extending social theory to farm animals: addressing alienation in the dairy sector. Sociologia Ruralis
Stuart, D. 2011. Nature is not guilty: food-borne illness and the industrial bagged salad. Sociologia Ruralis
Environmental Sociological Theory
Stuart, D. 2016. Crossing the “great divide” in practice: theoretical approaches for sociology in interdisciplinary environmental research. Environmental Sociology
Carolan, M., and D. Stuart. 2016. Get real: on climate change and all that ‘it’ entails. Sociologia Ruralis
Gunderson, R., and D. Stuart. 2014. Industrial animal agribusiness and environmental sociological theory: applications and areas for development. International Journal of Sociology
Agriculture & Environment
Stuart, D. 2021. Input industry influence on farmer decision-making: an example of negative impacts to the environment and farmers. Handbook on the Human Impact of Agriculture
Houser, M., Gunderson, R., Stuart, D. and Denny, R.C., 2020. How farmers “repair” the industrial agricultural system. Agriculture and Human Values
Houser, M., and D. Stuart. 2020. An accelerating treadmill and overlooked contradiction in industrial agriculture: climate change and nitrogen fertilizer. Journal of Agrarian Change
Houser, M., R. Gunderson and D. Stuart. 2020. Farmers’ perceptions of climate change in social context: toward a political economy of relevance. Rural Sociology
Houser, M., S. Marquart-Pyatt, R. Denny, A. Reimer, and D. Stuart. 2020. Farmers, information, and nutrient management in the US Midwest. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
Douglass-Gallagher, E., and D. Stuart. 2019. Crop growers’ adaptive capacity to climate change: a place-based study of agriculture in Arizona’s Verde Valley. Environmental Management
Houser, M., R. Denny, A. Reimer, S. Marquart-Pyatt, and D. Stuart. 2018. Strategies to enhance extension’s role as an agricultural information source. Journal of Extension
Reimer, A., R. Denny, and D. Stuart. 2018. The impact of federal and state conservation programs on farmer nitrogen management. Environmental Management
Stuart, D., and M. Houser. 2018. Producing compliant polluters: seed companies and nitrogen fertilizer application in US corn agriculture. Rural Sociology
Article highlighted in News & Views: Bellamy, A.S. 2019. Profit and hegemony in agribusiness. Nature Plant
Stuart, D., 2018. Climate change and ideological transformation in US agriculture. Sociologia Ruralis
Stuart, D., R.C.H. Denny, M. Houser, A.P. Reimer, and S. Marquart-Pyatt. 2018. Farmer selection of sources of information for nitrogen management in the US Midwest: Implications for education programs. Land Use Policy
Houser, M., D. Stuart, and M. Carolan. 2017. Is seeing believing? Applying a realist framework to examine agriculture and climate change. Environmental Sociology
Schewe, R.L., and D. Stuart. 2017. Why don’t they just change? Contract farming, productivism, informational influence and barriers to agricultural climate change mitigation. Rural Sociology
Reimer, A., J. Doll, J., B., Basso, S.T. Marquart-Pyatt, G.P. Robertson, D. Stuart, and J. Zhao. 2017. Moving towards sustainable farming systems: Insights from private and public sector dialogues on nitrogen management. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
Stuart, D., and R. Schewe. 2016. Constrained choice and climate change mitigation in US agriculture: structural barriers to a climate change ethic. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
Stuart, D., B. Basso, S. Marquart-Pyatt, A.P. Reimer, G.P. Robertson, and J. Zhao. 2015. A coupled human-natural systems understanding of agricultural nitrogen loss. BioScience
Schewe, R.L, and D. Stuart. 2015. Diversity in agricultural technology adoption: how are automatic milking systems used and to what end? Agriculture and Human Values
Stuart, D., R.L. Schewe, and M. McDermott. 2014. Reducing nitrogen fertilizer application as a climate change mitigation strategy: understanding farmer decision-making and potential barriers to change in the US. Land Use Policy
Stuart, D., E. Benveniste, and L.M. Harris. 2014. Evaluating the use of an environmental assurance program to address pollution from United States cropland. Land Use Policy
Stuart, D., and M.R. Worosz. 2013. The myth of efficiency: technology and ethics in industrial food production. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
Stuart, D., R.L. Schewe, and M. McDermott. 2012. Responding to climate change: barriers to reflexive modernization in US agriculture. Organization & Environment
Stuart, D., and M.R. Worosz. 2012. Risk, anti-reflexivity, and ethical neutralization in industrial food processing. Agriculture and Human Values
Stuart, D. 2010. Science, standards, and power: new food safety governance in California. Journal of Rural Social Science
Stuart, D. 2010. Coastal ecosystems and agricultural land use: new challenges on California’s Central Coast. Coastal Management
Stuart, D. 2009. Constrained choice and ethical dilemmas in land management: environmental quality and food safety in California agriculture. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
Stuart, D. 2008. The illusion of control: industrialized agriculture, nature, and food safety. Agriculture and Human Values
Beretti, M., and D. Stuart. 2008. Food safety and environmental quality impose conflicting demands on Central Coast growers. California Agriculture
Other Publications
Busch, L., and D. Stuart. 2015. Agricultural Sciences and Technology. In International Encyclopedia of Social & Behavioral Sciences: 2nd Edition. Elsevier Press. Oxford, UK
Peralta, A., D. Stuart, A. Kent, and J. Lennon. 2014. Integrating human-microbe interactions: a social-ecological framework for management of microbial services. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Worosz, M.R., and D. Stuart. 2014. Food safety and the structure of the agrifood system. In Rural America in a Globalizing World: Problems and Prospects for the 2010s. West Virginia Press
Haan, M., D. Stuart, and R. Schewe. 2012. “Challenges and Benefits of Adopting Robotic Milking on Michigan Dairy Farms.” Michigan Dairy Review
Lowell, K., J. Langholz, and D. Stuart. 2009. Safe and Sustainable: Co-Managing for Food Safety and Ecological Health in California’s Central Coast Region. San Francisco, CA. and Washington, D.C: The Nature Conservancy of California and the Georgetown University Produce Safety Project
Stuart, D. and B. Emerson. 2009. Book review of “Agricultural Systems: Agroecology and Rural Innovation for Development.” Journal of Environmental Quality
Stuart, D., Shennan, C., and M. Brown. 2006. Food safety and environmental protection on the Central Coast: exploring the science behind an apparent conflict. The Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. University of California, Santa Cruz. Research Brief #10
Stuart, D. 2006. Reconciling food safety and environmental protection: a literature review. Resource Conservation District of Monterey County, First Edition. Salinas, CA.
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