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摘要

Molnar lays out an overly restrictive agenda in two senses. The first relates to his portrayal of rural sociological involvement with the topic of climate change as representing "a new research paradigm" in which policymakers and the geophysical community have "largely set the . . . terms of engagement for climate change issues." The second and related issue is that Molnar neglects social science contributions regarding the social causes or "driving forces" of climate change,1 one of the key contributions of environmental sociologists in recent years. The result is that Molnar proposes a "downstream" agenda, in which others set the parameters and priorities for social science research. In contrast, since the earliest days of social science engagement with climate change, many sociologists have argued for the importance of working "upstream."