My published work appears in sociology and interdisciplinary journals such as American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Social Science Research, Climatic Change, Sociological Forum, Sociological Methodology, Sociology of Development, Ecological Economics, Energy Research and Social Science, Science of the Total Environment, and Human Ecology Review. My work has received media coverage in outlets such as National Geographic, Science Daily, Phys.org and Earth.com.
Selected Publications
Project: Multidimensional Emissions Profile–examining how development and inequality affect countries’ multidimensional contributions to global climate change.
Huang, Xiaorui. 2024. “Harness the Co-Benefit and Avoid the Trade-off: The Complex Relationship Between Income Inequality and Carbon Dioxide Emissions.” Social Forces 103(2): 403-428.
Huang, Xiaorui. 2024. “Not All Emissions Are Created Equal: Multidimensionality in Nations’ Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Affluence/Emissions Nexus.” Socius 10. doi: 10.1177/23780231241238962.
Huang, Xiaorui. 2024. “The Multidimensional Relationship Between Renewable Energy Deployment and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in High-income Nations.” npj Climate Action 3:107.
Project: Militarization, Economic Growth, and Climate Change
Jorgenson, Andrew K., Brett Clark, Ryan P. Thombs, Jeffrey Kentor, Jennifer E. Givens, Xiaorui Huang, Hassan El Tinay, Daniel Auerbach, and Matthew C. Mahutga. 2023. “Guns Versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Impact of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions.” American Sociological Review 88(3): 418-453.
Project: Advancing Quantitative Research Methods
Thombs, Ryan, Xiaorui Huang, and Jared Fitzgerald. 2021. “What Goes Up Might Not Come Down: Modeling Directional Asymmetry with Large N, Large T Data.” Sociological Methodology 52(1):1-29.
Thombs, Ryan P., Xiaorui Huang, Andrew K. Jorgenson. 2021. “It’s About Time: How Recent Advances in Time Series Analysis Techniques can Enhance Energy and Climate Research.” Energy Research & Social Science 72:101882.
Project: Climate Change and Global Environmental Justice
Huang, Xiaorui. 2018. “Ecologically Unequal Exchange, Recessions, and Climate Change: A Longitudinal Study.” Social Science Research 73:1-12.
Givens, Jennifer, Xiaorui Huang, and Andrew K. Jorgenson. 2019. “Ecologically Unequal Exchange: A Theory of Global Environmental Injustice.” Sociology Compass 13(5):e12693.
Project: Asymmetry and Temporal Variations in the Economic Development/Climate Change Nexus
Huang, Xiaorui, and Andrew K. Jorgenson. 2018. “The Asymmetrical Effects of Economic Development on Consumption-Based and Production-Based Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 1990-2014.” Socius 4:1-10.
Thombs, Ryan, and Xiaorui Huang. 2019. “Uneven Decoupling: the Economic Growth/CO2 Emissions Relationship in the Global North, 1870-2014.” Sociology of Development 5:410-427.
Project: Massachusetts Cranberries: Sustaining a Native Production System amidst a Changing Climate
Gareau, Brian, J., Xiaorui Huang, Tara Pisani Gareau, and Sandra DiDonato. “Silent Spring at 60: Assessing Environmentalism in the Cranberry Treadmill of Production.” Journal of Rural Studies 85: 505-520.
Gareau, Brian J., Xiaorui Huang, Tara Pisani Gareau, and Sandra DiDonato. 2020. “The Strength of Green Ties: Massachusetts Cranberry Grower Social Networks and Effects on Climate Change Attitudes and Action.” Climatic Change 162: 1613-1636.
Gareau, Brian J., Xiaorui Huang, and Tara Pisani Gareau. 2018. “Social and Ecological Conditions of Cranberry Production and Climate Change Attitudes in New England.” PLOS One 13(12):e0207237.
Project: Income Inequality and Climate Change
Jorgenson, Andrew K., Juliet Schor, and Xiaorui Huang. 2017. “Income Inequality and Carbon Emissions in the United States: A State-level Analysis, 1997–2012.” Ecological Economics 134:40-48.
Jorgenson, Andrew K., Juliet Schor, Kyle W. Knight, and Xiaorui Huang. 2016. “Domestic Inequality and Carbon Emissions in Comparative Perspective.” Sociological Forum 31:770-786.
Jorgenson, Andrew K., Juliet Schor, Xiaorui Huang, and Jared Fitzgerald. 2015. “Income Inequality and Carbon Emissions in the United States: A Preliminary Analysis.” Human Ecology Review 22:93-106.
Xiaorui Huang, PhD 