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Stefano Longo
Senior Lecturer
Department of Sociology and Work ScienceAbout Stefano Longo
Stefano B. Longo is a sociologist studying global development processes and the social drivers of ecological change. The research analyzes the interactions between social and biophysical systems with an emphasis on political-economy and sustainable development. A central component of his research program has examined food systems, economic development, and environmental change. An important goal of the work is to better integrate sociological approaches and social theory into interdisciplinary research in sustainability. Dr. Longo has published many empirical and theoretical contributions to research including a book, The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture, and several articles, along with other publications.
Current Projects:
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Why aquaculture may not conserve wild
fish
Stefano Longo, Richard York
Science Advances - 2024 -
Social sustainability: more confusion than
clarity
Ellinor Isgren, Stefano Longo
Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences - 2024 -
The Role of Distinction in Dialectical Analyses of Socioecology: Metabolic Rift World Ecology, and Urban Political
Ecology
J. Hedlund, Stefano Longo, T. P. Clark
World Review of Political Economy - 2022 -
Key challenges to the corporate biosphere stewardship research program: inequity, reification, and stakeholder
commensurability
Stefano Longo, Ellinor Isgren, Richard York
Global Sustainability - 2022 -
Sustainability science must challenge common sense: a response to Bodin
(2021)
Ellinor Isgren, Stefano Longo
Sustainability Science - 2022 -
Environmental threats and activism against extractive industries: The case of gold mining in Rosia Montană,
Romania
Adriana Szabo, Thomas E. Shriver, Stefano Longo
Journal of Rural Studies - 2022 -
Nutrient overloading in the Chesapeake Bay: Structural conditions in poultry production and the socioecological drivers of marine
pollution
Stefano Longo, Ellinor Isgren, Brett Clark
Sociology of Development - 2021 -
Global labor value chains, commodification, and the socioecological structure of severe exploitation. A case study of the Thai seafood
sector
Timothy P. Clark, Stefano Longo
Journal of Peasant Studies - 2021 -
Sociology for sustainability
science
Stefano Longo, Ellinor Isgren, Brett Clark, Andrew K. Jorgenson, Anne Jerneck, Lennart Olsson, Orla M. Kelly, David Harnesk, Richard York
Discover Sustainability - 2021 -
Energy and the Environment: The Treadmill of Production and Sacrifice Zones in
Czechoslovakia
Thomas Shriver, Stefano Longo, Allison Adams
Sociology of Development - 2020 -
Agriculture, Pesticide Use, and Economic Development: A Global Examination
(1990–2014)
John Hedlund, Stefano Longo, Richard York
Rural Sociology - 2020 -
Aquaculture and the displacement of fisheries
captures
Stefano Longo, Brett Clark, Richard York, Andrew K. Jorgenson
Conservation Biology - 2019 -
Examining the effect of economic development, region, and time period on the fisheries footprints of nations
(1961–2010)
Timothy P. Clark, Stefano Longo
International Journal of Comparative Sociology - 2019 -
Politics, the State, and Sea Level Rise: The Treadmill of Production and Structural Selectivity in North Carolina’s Coastal Resource
Commission
Jason S. Allen, Stefano Longo, Thomas E. Shriver
Sociological Quarterly - 2018 -
Socio-structural drivers, fisheries footprints, and seafood consumption: A comparative international study,
1961-2012
Timothy P. Clark, Stefano Longo, Brett Clark, Andrew K. Jorgenson
Journal of Rural Studies - 2018