@article {27116, title = {The importance of the seafood processing sector to coastal community resilience}, journal = {Marine Policy}, volume = {156}, year = {2023}, abstract = {

Coastal communities face a myriad of social, economic, and ecological facets that affect their well-being and resilience capacity. For those places dependent on commercial fishing, resilience includes the processing sector of the seafood industry. Yet, there is a dearth of knowledge and understanding of the contribution of the seafood processing workforce to coastal community resilience. This study incorporates secondary data and collects new data through semi-structured interviews. The first set of interviews were collected with sector workers and leaders, and with coastal community leaders, in two Oregon counties. To supplement this data, interviews were conducted with knowledgeable sector contacts in New England and Norway. All interviews were conducted to contextualize perceptions of the seafood processing sector and resiliency within coastal communities. Analyses revealed three overarching themes related to the importance of the product, the work and workforce, and the seafood processing sector to the community. Results and discussion elaborate on the symbiotic connections between policy, management, and socio-cultural dependence of seafood processing to coastal community resilience.

}, author = {Lori A Cramer and Jennifer Beaullieu and Jamie Doyle and Marta Maria Maldonado and Hillary Egna and Maria Johnson and Flaxen DL Conway} } @article {3254, title = {Comparative Institutional Advantage in Europe{\textquoteright}s Sovereign Debt Crisis}, journal = {Comparative Political Studies}, volume = {48}, year = {2015}, author = {AL Johnston and Hanck{\'e}, R and Pant, S} } @article {3256, title = {Sharing the Rewards, Dividing the Costs? The Electoral Consequences of Social Pacts and Legislative Reform in Western Europe}, journal = {West European Politics West European Politics}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, pages = {1 - 22}, isbn = {0140-2382}, author = {AL Johnston and Hamann, Kerstin and Katsanidou, Alexia and Kelly, John and Pollock, Philip H.} } @article {3257, title = {Striking Concessions from Governments: The Success of General Strikes in Western Europe, 1980-2009}, journal = {Comp Politics Comparative Politics}, volume = {46}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, pages = {23 - 41}, isbn = {0010-4159}, author = {AL Johnston and Hamann, Kerstin and Kelly, John} } @article {3258, title = {Student Loan Reform, Interest Subsidies and Costly Technicalities: Lessons from the UK Experience}, journal = {Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management}, volume = {35}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, pages = {167 - 178}, publisher = {Routledge. Available from: Taylor \& Francis, Ltd. 325 Chestnut Street Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Fax: 215-625-2940; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals}, abstract = {

In this paper, we consider lessons for other countries about the design of student loans with income-contingent repayments (i.e. repayments calculated as "x" per cent of each borrower{\textquoteright}s subsequent income). Using a dataset of 20,000 simulated lifetime graduate earnings paths, we estimate the cost and distributional effects of reforms in England in 2012. Introducing a real interest rate produces significant savings, mostly from graduates in the middle and upper earnings deciles. But those gains are offset by an increase in the income threshold at which loan repayments start. We conclude with discussion of policy changes to offset the increased cost of student loans (roughly 4,400 British pounds per graduate) within the current austerity climate, namely significant reductions in the higher education block teaching grant and a cap on the number of students. (Contains 1 table and 5 figures.)

}, isbn = {1360-080X}, author = {AL Johnston and Barr, Nicholas} } @article {3255, title = {Unions Against Governments: Explaining General Strikes in Western Europe, 1980-2006}, journal = {Comparative Political Studies}, volume = {46}, year = {2013}, author = {AL Johnston and Kelly, J. and Hamann, K.} } @article {3259, title = {European Economic and Monetary Union{\textquoteright}s perverse effects on sectoral wage inflation: Negative feedback effects from institutional change?}, journal = {Eur. Union Polit. European Union Politics}, volume = {13}, year = {2012}, month = {2012}, pages = {345 - 366}, isbn = {1465-1165}, author = {AL Johnston} } @article {2970, title = {Drivers of Conflict in Developing Country Infrastructure Projects: Experience from the Water and Pipeline Sectors}, journal = {J. Constr. Eng. Manage. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management}, volume = {137}, year = {2011}, month = {2011///}, pages = {498 - 511}, isbn = {0733-9364}, author = {Hilary Boudet and Jayasundera, Dilanka Chinthana and Davis, Jennifer} } @book {3129, title = {Women and politics in a global world}, year = {2010}, month = {2010}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, address = {New York}, isbn = {9780195388077 0195388070}, author = {Sarah L. Henderson and Jeydel, Alana S.} } @article {3000, title = {When safety culture backfires: Unintended consequences of half-shared governance in a high tech workplace}, journal = {The Social Science Journal}, volume = {46}, year = {2009}, month = {2009}, pages = {707 - 723}, abstract = {

This paper applies concepts from the sociology and anthropology of organizations to understand limits to the implementation of a more effective safety culture in the workplace. It highlights unintended consequences of combining bureaucratic control and shared governance and identifies sources of inertia within already existing safety cultures. The data come from focus group interviews with workers in a research and development facility of a multinational corporation in the Western U.S. It is found that safety protocols, rules, and rhetoric, combined with efforts to give workers more responsibility for safety in the workplace, create tendencies toward worker alienation, shame with regard to injuries, complacency, and fear of bureaucratic processes. Therefore it appears that some efforts to create safety culture in the workplace may unintentionally undermine the goal of manufacturing safety.

}, isbn = {0362-3319}, author = {Mark Edwards and Jabs, L.B.} } @article {2996, title = {Coastal ecosystem-based management with nonlinear ecological functions and values.}, journal = {Science (New York, N.Y.)}, volume = {319}, year = {2008}, month = {2008}, pages = {321 - 3}, abstract = {

A common assumption is that ecosystem services respond linearly to changes in habitat size. This assumption leads frequently to an "all or none" choice of either preserving coastal habitats or converting them to human use. However, our survey of wave attenuation data from field studies of mangroves, salt marshes, seagrass beds, nearshore coral reefs, and sand dunes reveals that these relationships are rarely linear. By incorporating nonlinear wave attenuation in estimating coastal protection values of mangroves in Thailand, we show that the optimal land use option may instead be the integration of development and conservation consistent with ecosystem-based management goals. This result suggests that reconciling competing demands on coastal habitats should not always result in stark preservation-versus-conversion choices.

}, isbn = {0036-8075}, author = {Lori A Cramer and Barbier EB and Koch EW and Silliman BR and Hacker SD and Wolanski E and Primavera J and Granek EF and Polasky S and Aswani S and Stoms DM and Kennedy CJ and Bael D, and Kappel CV and Perillo GM and Reed DJ} } @article {3034, title = {Human impacts on regional avian diversity and abundance.}, journal = {Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology}, volume = {22}, year = {2008}, month = {2008}, pages = {405 - 16}, abstract = {

Patterns of association between humans and biodiversity typically show positive, negative, or negative quadratic relationships and can be described by 3 hypotheses: biologically rich areas that support high human population densities co-occur with areas of high biodiversity (productivity); biodiversity decreases monotonically with increasing human activities (ecosystem stress); and biodiversity peaks at intermediate levels of human influence (intermediate disturbance). To test these hypotheses, we compared anthropogenic land cover and housing units, as indices of human influence, with bird species richness and abundance across the Midwestern United States. We modeled richness of native birds with 12 candidate models of land cover and housing to evaluate the empirical evidence. To assess which species were responsible for observed variation in richness, we repeated our model-selection analysis with relative abundance of each native species as the response and then asked whether natural-history traits were associated with positive, negative, or mixed responses. Native avian richness was highest where anthropogenic land cover was lowest and housing units were intermediate based on model-averaged predictions among a confidence set of candidate models. Eighty-three of 132 species showed some pattern of association with our measures of human influence. Of these species approximately 40\% were negatively associated, approximately 6\% were positively associated, and approximately 7\% showed evidence of an intermediate relationship with human influence measures. Natural-history traits were not closely related to the direction of the relationship between abundance and human influence. Nevertheless, pooling species that exhibited any relationship with human influence and comparing them with unrelated species indicated they were significantly smaller, nested closer to the ground, had shorter incubation and fledging times, and tended to be altricial. Our results support the ecosystem-stress hypothesis for the majority of individual species and for overall species diversity when focusing on anthropogenic land cover. Nevertheless, the great variability in housing units across the land-cover gradient indicates that an intermediate-disturbance relationship is also supported. Our findings suggest preemptive conservation action should be taken, whereby areas with little anthropogenic land cover are given conservation priority. Nevertheless, conservation action should not be limited to pristine landscapes because our results showed that native avian richness and the relative abundance of many species peaked at intermediate housing densities and levels of anthropogenic land cover.

}, isbn = {0888-8892}, author = {Roger B. Hammer and Lepczyk CA and Flather CH and Radeloff VC and Pidgeon AM, and Liu J} } @article {3026, title = {Human influence on California fire regimes.}, journal = {Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America}, volume = {17}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, pages = {1388 - 402}, abstract = {

Periodic wildfire maintains the integrity and species composition of many ecosystems, including the mediterranean-climate shrublands of California. However, human activities alter natural fire regimes, which can lead to cascading ecological effects. Increased human ignitions at the wildland-urban interface (WUI) have recently gained attention, but fire activity and risk are typically estimated using only biophysical variables. Our goal was to determine how humans influence fire in California and to examine whether this influence was linear, by relating contemporary (2000) and historic (1960-2000) fire data to both human and biophysical variables. Data for the human variables included fine-resolution maps of the WUI produced using housing density and land cover data. Interface WUI, where development abuts wildland vegetation, was differentiated from intermix WUI, where development intermingles with wildland vegetation. Additional explanatory variables included distance to WUI, population density, road density, vegetation type, and ecoregion. All data were summarized at the county level and analyzed using bivariate and multiple regression methods. We found highly significant relationships between humans and fire on the contemporary landscape, and our models explained fire frequency (R2 = 0.72) better than area burned (R2 = 0.50). Population density, intermix WUI, and distance to WUI explained the most variability in fire frequency, suggesting that the spatial pattern of development may be an important variable to consider when estimating fire risk. We found nonlinear effects such that fire frequency and area burned were highest at intermediate levels of human activity, but declined beyond certain thresholds. Human activities also explained change in fire frequency and area burned (1960-2000), but our models had greater explanatory power during the years 1960-1980, when there was more dramatic change in fire frequency. Understanding wildfire as a function of the spatial arrangement of ignitions and fuels on the landscape, in addition to nonlinear relationships, will be important to fire managers and conservation planners because fire risk may be related to specific levels of housing density that can be accounted for in land use planning. With more fires occurring in close proximity to human infrastructure, there may also be devastating ecological impacts if development continues to grow farther into wildland vegetation.

}, isbn = {1051-0761}, author = {Roger B. Hammer and Syphard AD and Radeloff VC and Keeley JE and Hawbaker TJ and Clayton MK and Stewart SI} } @book {3125, title = {Participation and protest : women and politics in a global world}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

"Despite increased international rhetoric in support of women{\textquoteright}s equality, women currently comprise a disproportionate share of the world{\textquoteright}s illiterate, poor, displaced, underpaid, underemployed, and underrepresented populations. And though women have gained visibility and influence in a wide array of political and economic arenas, their position and status in society are still far from equal to those of men. On the other hand, since the post-World War II era, there has been a global explosion of women{\textquoteright}s activism on behalf of equality, liberation, and better living conditions - women are standing up not only for themselves, but also for other disempowered groups. Participation and Protest provides an overview of the ways in which women participate in institutionalized politics, social movements, and revolutionary movements. It discusses key policy issues that affect women, such as equality in the workforce, maternity and family leave policies, and reproductive rights. Exploring the critical concerns that confront women in the world community - including economic development, war, and international law - the book analyzes the role of women in nationalist and fundamentalist movements, and also considers women{\textquoteright}s rights in the broader context of international human rights. Offering global coverage of this important subject, Participation and Protest examines the impact of women in politics - and politics{\textquoteright} impact on women - from a cross-national, comparative perspective."--pub. desc.

}, isbn = {019515925X 9780195159257 0195159233 9780195159233 9780195159257 9780195159233}, author = {Sarah L. Henderson and Jeydel, Alana S.} } @article {3028, title = {Understanding Regional Change: A Comparison of Two Lake Districts}, journal = {American Institute of Biological Sciences BioScience}, volume = {57}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, pages = {323 - 335}, abstract = {

We compared long-term change in two lake districts, one in a forested rural setting and the other in an urbanizing agricultural region, using lakes as sentinel ecosystems. Human population growth and land-use change are important drivers of ecosystem change in both regions. Biotic changes such as habitat loss, species invasions, and poorer fishing were prevalent in the rural region, and lake hydrology and biogeochemistry responded to climate trends and landscape position. Similar biotic changes occurred in the urbanizing agricultural region, where human-caused changes in hydrology and biogeochemistry had conspicuous effects. Feedbacks among ecosystem dynamics, human uses, economics, social dynamics, and policy and practice are fundamental to understanding change in these lake districts. Sustained support for interdisciplinary collaboration is essential to build understanding of regional change.

}, isbn = {0006-3568}, author = {Roger B. Hammer and Stephen R. Carpenter and Barbara J. Benson and Reinette Biggs and Jonathan W. Chipman and Jonathan A. Foley and Shaun A. Golding and Pieter T. J. Johnson and Richard C. Lathrop and Amy M. Kamarainen and Timothy K. Kratz and Katheri McMahon} }