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Murray Straus And Owen Rogers Remembered, Karen Tongue Hammond

UNH Today Archive

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Doubling Down On Service, Larry Clow

UNH Today Archive

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Liberal Arts Students Awarded Gilman International Scholarships, Laura Perille

UNH Today Archive

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Yale Law School: Cultural Cognition Of Weather, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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Water Concerns Unite Citizen Activists:A Community Rights Movement Transcends Party, Age, And Gender, Cliff Brown

Carsey Publications

In this brief, author Cliff Brown examines an instance of sustained local activism in which citizens in the communities of Nottingham, Barrington, and Barnstead, New Hampshire, mobilized to protect community groundwater against threats from commercial use. Beginning in 2001, USA Springs commenced work on a large water-bottling operation that would have pumped over 400,000 gallons daily from Nottingham and Barrington. Activists fought back through state agencies and the courts, engaging in a lengthy campaign that involved petitioning, lobbying, community meetings, rallies, public protests, and a State Supreme Court case.

Brown reports that threats to community water precipitate a high level …

Faculty Research: Water Concerns Unite Citizen Activists, Susan Dumais

UNH Today Archive

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Outliving Love: Marital Estrangement In An African Insurance Market, Casey Golomski

Anthropology

Marital estrangement and formal divorce are vital conjunctures for married women’s kinship relations and life course, where a horizon of future possibilities are revalued and negotiated at the interstices of custom, law, and social and ritual obligations. In this article, after delineating the forms of customary and civil marriage and the possibilities for divorce or estrangement from each, I describe how some married women in Swaziland and South Africa mediate this complex social field for their children and families through pensions and continuing to pay for their partners’ insurance coverage. This was not solely out of avarice to reap future …

Wildfire, Climate, And Perceptions In Northeast Oregon, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Joel N. Hartter, Barry D. Keim, Angela E. Boag, Michael W. Palace, Forrest R. Stevens, Mark J. Ducey

Sociology

Wildfire poses a rising threat in the western USA, fueled by synergies between historical fire suppression, changing land use, insects and disease, and shifts toward a drier, warmer climate. The rugged landscapes of northeast Oregon, with their historically forest- and resource-based economies, have been one of the areas affected. A 2011 survey found area residents highly concerned about fire and insect threats, but not about climate change. In 2014 we conducted a second survey that, to explore this apparent disconnect, included questions about past and future summertime (fire season) temperatures. Although regional temperatures have warmed in recent decades at twice …

Fewer Than Half Of Wic-Eligible Families Receive Wic Benefits, Kristin Smith

Carsey Publications

Research has shown that the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is a successful and cost-effective program. Numerous studies find that WIC participation improves pre- and postnatal health outcomes; families’ overall nutrition; access to prenatal care, health care for children, and immunizations; and children’s cognitive development and academic achievement. Despite these important benefits, author Kristin Smith--using data from the 2015 Current Population Survey---reports that fewer than half of WIC income-eligible families with young children received WIC nutrition benefits in 2014. Among eligible families, receipt of WIC benefits was more likely among families in which the head …

Science, Scientists, And Local Weather: Understanding Mass Perceptions Of Global Warming, Wanyun Shao, James C. Garand, Barry D. Keim, Lawrence C. Hamilton

Sociology

Objective: To explore the effects of long-term climate trends and short-term weather fluctuations, evaluations of scientists and science, political predispositions, religious affiliation, the information environment, and demographic attributes on individuals’ views about whether global warming exists and, if so, whether it is a result of natural cycles or human activity.

Methods: We use data from the 2009 Pew General Public Science Survey, along with data on long- and short-term patterns of temperature and precipitation in individuals’ home communities.

Results: We find that long-term trends in summer temperatures influence perceptions of global warming. Individuals who reside in communities with long-term warming …

Planning For Sustainability In Small Municipalities: The Influence Of Interest Groups, Growth Patterns, And Institutional Characteristics, Vanessa R. Levesque, Kathleen P. Bell, Aram J. K. Calhoun

Faculty Publications

How and why small municipalities promote sustainability through planning efforts is poorly understood. We analyzed ordinances in 451 Maine municipalities and tested theories of policy adoption using regression analysis.We found that smaller communities do adopt programs that contribute to sustainability relevant to their scale and context. In line with the political market theory, we found that municipalities with strong environmental interests, higher growth, and more formal governments were more likely to adopt these policies. Consideration of context and capacity in planning for sustainability will help planners better identify and benefit from collaboration, training, and outreach opportunities.

Assessing Differences In Intimate Partner Obligations Based On Relationship Status, Gender, And Parental Status, Lawrence Ganong, Tyler B. Jamison, Ashton Chapman

Faculty Publications

The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of relationship status (i.e., cohabiting or married), gender, and parental status on perceptions about intimate partner obligations. In vignettes depicting various aspects of couple relationships, we measured the effects of relationship status, gender, and parental status on partner obligations, obtaining quantitative and qualitative data. Married couples were perceived to have greater obligations to one another than cohabitors when issues involved potential relationship transitions. Women were perceived to be more obligated than men to support a partner's career change. Open-ended responses indicated that marriage is an important factor in shaping perceived …

Granite State College Graduate Studies 2016-2017 Catalog, Granite State College

Granite State College Catalogs

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Climigration? Population And Climate Change In Arctic Alaska, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Kei Saito, Philip A. Loring, Richard B. Lammers, Henry P. Huntington

Sociology

Residents of towns and villages in Arctic Alaska live on “the front line of climate change.” Some communities face immediate threats from erosion and flooding associated with thawing permafrost, increasing river flows, and reduced sea ice protection of shorelines. The term climigration, referring to migration caused by climate change, originally was coined for these places. Although initial applications emphasized the need for government relocation policies, it has elsewhere been applied more broadly to encompass unplanned migration as well. Some historical movements have been attributed to climate change, but closer study tends to find multiple causes, making it difficult to quantify …

Murray A. Straus Memorial Service July 11, Susan Dumais

UNH Today Archive

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Unh Research Finds Child Kidnappings Are Not Declining, But Fewer End In Murder, Robbin Ray

UNH Today Archive

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Hispanic Children Least Likely To Have Health Insurance: Citizenship, Ethnicity, And Language Barriers To Coverage, Jess Carson, Michael J. Staley

Carsey Publications

This policy brief examines health insurance coverage of Hispanic children and its relationship to their citizenship status, their parents’ citizenship status, parents’ insurance coverage, language spoken at home, and their state’s Medicaid expansion policies. Using the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey collected in 2014, authors Michael Staley and Jessica Carson report that Hispanic children are less likely to have health insurance than black or white children, a gap that is explained by differences in citizenship status between Hispanic and non-Hispanic children. Noncitizen Hispanic children are nearly three times more likely to be uninsured than …

Unh Research Finds Hispanic Children Least Likely To Have Health Insurance, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

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Unh Research Finds Hispanic Children Least Likely To Have Health Insurance, Erika Mantz

UNH Today Archive

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Unh Research Finds Great Recession Changed U.S. Migration Patterns, Lori Wright

Media Relations

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Unh Research Finds Great Recession Changed U.S. Migration Patterns, Lori Tyler Gula

UNH Today Archive

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Unh Research: Great Recession Changed U.S. Migration Patterns, Lori Tyler Gula

UNH Today Archive

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Unh Research Finds Winter Warmth Recollections Depend On Climate Beliefs, Erika Mantz

UNH Today Archive

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Unh Research Finds Winter Warmth Recollections Depend On Climate Beliefs, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

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Was December Warm? Family, Politics, And Recollections Of Weather, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Mary D. Lemcke-Stampone

Carsey Publications

In 2015 New Hampshire experienced its warmest December on record. The temperature exceeded twentieth century average temperatures by a wider margin than for any month in historical records dating back to 1895. In February 2016, as part of an ongoing study of environmental perceptions, the Granite State Poll asked state residents whether they thought the recent December had been generally colder, warmer, or about average for that month. Only 63 percent remembered it had been above average. The remainder of the winter set a new warmth record as well, so in April 2016 another Granite State Poll asked residents about …

Unh Demographer Finds New Birth Data Reflect Fewer Births In U.S. In The Post-Recession Era, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

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Unh Demographer Finds New Birth Data Reflect Fewer Births In U.S. In The Post-Recession Era, Erika Mantz

UNH Today Archive

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U.S. Births Remain Low As The Great Recession Wanes; More Than Three Million Fewer Births And Still Counting, Kenneth M. Johnson

Carsey Publications

In this fact sheet, author Ken Johnson discusses how since the onset of the Great Recession, there have been 3.4 million fewer U.S. births than expected. National Center for Health Statistics data for 2015 show the lowest general fertility rate on record and only 3,978,000 births last year. There were 338,000 fewer births in 2015 than in 2007, just before the Recession began to influence fertility. This decline in births is entirely due to reduced fertility rates. In 2015, the shortfall of births was nearly 600,000, and recent data provide no evidence of any upturn in birth rates. It is …

Unh Receives $25,000 Grant To Develop App For College Sexual Assault Survivors, Jane Stapleton

UNH Today Archive

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Unh Receives $25,000 Grant To Develop App For College Sexual Assault Survivors, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

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