Research
Journal Publications (Refereed)
Austin, Kelly F. and Laura A. McKinney. 2021. “Gendered Inequalities in HIV/AIDS: Investigating Linkages between Degradation, Disenfranchisement, Unemployment and Disease.” International Journal of Social Research 5:52.
Austin, Kelly F., Mark D. Noble, and Laura A. McKinney. 2020. “Climate Disasters Contaminate Women: Investigating the Cross-National Linkages between Disasters, Food Insecurity, and Women’s HIV in Less Developed Nations.” Global Health Governance 10(1): 86-102.
Kick, Edward L., Thomas Burns, and Laura McKinney. 2017. “The Coupling Effects of World-System Position and National Capitals On Relative Economic Growth in Developing Countries.” Agricultural Research & Technology 11(4):1-16. (link)
McKinney, Laura and Yuki Kato. 2017. “Community Context of Food Justice: Reflections on a Free Local Produce Program in a New Orleans Food Desert.” AIMS Agriculture and Food 2(2):183-200. (link)
Austin, Kelly F. and Laura A. McKinney. 2016. “Disaster Devastation in Poor Nations: The Direct and Indirect Effects of Gender Equality, Ecological Losses, and Development.” Social Forces 95(1):355-80. (link)
Highlighted in Phys.org (2016) and Humanosphere (2016).
Kick, Edward, Laura McKinney, and Ryan Thomson. 2016. “Waste throughout North Carolina with Implications for Agricultural Production.” Journal of Agronomy and Agricultural Aspects 2016(1):1-10. (link)
McKinney, Laura and Kelly Austin. 2015. “Ecological Losses are Infecting Women: An Analysis of Female HIV Prevalence and Life Expectancy in Less-Developed Countries.” Social Problems 62(4):529-49. (link)
Highlighted in Scholars Strategy Network (2016), The Society Pages (2016), and Oxford University Press Blog (2015).
McKinney, Laura and Gregory Fulkerson. 2015. “Gender Equality and Climate Justice: A Cross-National Analysis.” Social Justice Research 28(3):293-317. (link)
Received the Morton Deutsch Award from the International Society for Justice Research for the best article published in Social Justice Research in 2015
Kato, Yuki and Laura A. McKinney. 2015. “Bringing food desert residents to an alternative food market: A semi- experimental study of impediments to food access.” Agriculture and Human Values 32(3):215-227. (link)
McKinney, Laura A., Edward L. Kick, and Clare Cannon. 2015. “A Human Ecology Approach to Environmental Inequality: A County-Level Analysis of Natural Disasters and the Distribution of Landfills in the Southeastern US.” Human Ecology Review 21(1):109-132. (link)
McKinney, Laura A. 2014. “Gender, Democracy, Development, and Overshoot: A Cross-National Analysis.” Population and Environment 36(2):193-218. (link)
McKinney, Laura A. 2014. “Foreign Direct Investment, Development, and Overshoot.” Social Science Research 47:121-133. (link)
Kick, Edward L. and Laura A. McKinney. 2014. “Global Context, National Interdependencies, and the Ecological Footprint: A Structural Equation Analysis.” Sociological Perspectives 57(2):256-279. (link)
Austin, Kelly and Laura A. McKinney. 2012. “Disease, War, Hunger, and Deprivation: A Cross-National Investigation of the Determinants of Life Expectancy in Less-Developed and Sub-Saharan African Nations.” Sociological Perspectives 55(3):421-47. (link)
McKinney, Laura A. 2012. “Entropic Disorder: New Frontiers in Environmental Sociology.” Sociological Perspectives 55(2):295-317. (link)
Austin, Kelly, Laura A. McKinney, and Gretchen Thompson. 2012. “Trade Dependency and the Threat of Starvation as Unequal Exchange: A Structural Model of the Severity of Hunger Across Less-Developed Nations.” International Journal of Sociology 42(2):68-89. (link)
Kick, Edward L., Laura A. McKinney, and Gretchen H. Thompson. 2011. “The Intensity of Food Deprivation in the Modern Era: The Impact of the World System, Modernization, Conflict, Militarization and Environment.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 52(6):478-502. (link)
Kick, Edward L., James C. Fraser, Gregory M. Fulkerson, Laura A. McKinney, and Daniel H. DeVries. 2011. “Repetitive Flood Loss Victims and Their Acceptance of FEMA Mitigation Offers: An Analysis With Community-System Policy Implications.” Disasters: The Journal of Disaster Studies, Policy and Management 35(3):510-539. (link)
McKinney, Laura A., Edward L. Kick, and Gregory M. Fulkerson. 2010. “World System, Anthropogenic, and Ecological Threats to Bird and Mammal Species: A Structural Equation Analysis of Biodiversity Loss.” Organization & Environment 23(1):3-31. (link)
Fulkerson, Gregory M., Laura A. McKinney, and Kelly Austin. 2010. “Global Warmers and Global Coolers: A Cross- National Examination of Global Warming Dynamics.” International Journal of Sociology 40(2):44-64. (link)
Shandra, John; Laura A. McKinney, Chris Leckband, and Bruce London. 2010. “Threatened Bird Species, Structural Adjustment and the Debt Regime.” Human Ecology Review 17(1):18-33. (link)
McKinney, Laura A., Gregory M. Fulkerson, and Edward L. Kick. 2009. “Investigating the Correlates of Biodiversity Loss: A Cross-National Quantitative Analysis of Threatened Bird Species.” Human Ecology Review 16(1):103- 113. (link)
Shandra, John M., Chris Leckband, Laura A. McKinney, and Bruce London. 2009. “Ecologically Unequal Exchange, World Polity, and Biodiversity Loss: A Cross-National Analysis of Threatened Mammals.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 50(3-4):285-310. (link)
Book Chapters
Ergas, Christina, Laura McKinney, and Shannon Elizabeth Bell. 2021. “Intersectionality and the Environment.” In Caniglia, Jorgenson, Malin, Peek & Pellow’s (eds.) Handbook of Environmental Sociology. Springer.
McKinney, Laura. 2020. “The Sociology of Climate Change.” In Gould and Lewis’ (eds.) Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology (3rd edition). Oxford University Press.
McKinney, Laura and Arianna King. 2019. “Gender and Climate Change.” Pp. 3-21 in Zaleski, Enrile, Weiss, and Wang’s (eds.) Women's Journey to Empowerment in the 21st Century: A Transnational Approach. Oxford University Press.
McKinney, Laura. 2019. “The Entropy Curse.” Pp. 143-165 in R. Frey, P. Gellert, and H. Dahms’ (eds.)
Ecologically Unequal Exchange: Environmental Injustice in Comparative and Historical Perspective. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
McKinney, Laura. 2016. “Reinventing Rural Environmental Justice.” Pp. 57-76 in G. Fulkerson and A. Thomas’s (eds.) Reinventing Rural: New Realities in an Urbanizing World. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
McKinney, Laura A. 2014. “A Study of Sustainability: Entropy and the Rural/Urban Transformation.” Pp. 257-84 in G. Fulkerson and A. Thomas' (eds.) Studies in Urbanormativity: Rural Community in Urban Society. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Austin, Kelly, Edward L. Kick, and Laura A. McKinney. 2012. “Globalization: Theories of Convergence and
Divergence in the World-System.” Pp. 265-73 in S. Babones and C. Chase-Dunn's (eds.) Routledge Handbook of World- Systems Analysis. London: Routledge.
Kick, Edward L. and Laura A. McKinney. 2012. “World-System Structure, Natural Capital and Environmental Entropy.” Pp. 392-99 in S. Babones and C. Chase-Dunn's (eds.) Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis. London: Routledge.
Kick, Edward L., Laura A. McKinney, Steve McDonald, and Andrew Jorgenson. 2011. “A Multiple-Network Analysis of the World System of Nations, 1995-1999.” Pp. 311-27 in J. Scott and P. Carrington’s (eds.) The Handbook of Social Network Analysis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Other Publications
McKinney, Laura. 2017. Review of: Capitalism in the Web of Life by Jason Moore. Human Ecology Review. (link)
Kick, Edward L. and Laura A. McKinney. 2012. “Dependency Trends.” In George Ritzer's (ed.), Encyclopedia of Globalization. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
Kick, Edward L. and Laura A. McKinney. 2012. “Comparative Advantage.” In George Ritzer's (ed.), Encyclopedia of Globalization. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.