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The Free Press Vol 44 Issue 9, 11-12-2012, Kirsten Sylvain

Free Press, The

Students share their Election reactions to the results--Civic Matters continues growth in fourth year--Trustees say yes to new credit transfer policy--Native American activist, LaDuke, speaks at USM--USM installs new green water heating facilities--Students work to can hunger with food drive--Delta Chi hosts its annual bone marrow drive

The Free Press Vol 44 Issue 8, 11-05-2012, Kirsten Sylvain

Free Press, The

Death of system employee puts USM security under national attention--Students speak out on tobacco ban--Professor and partner asked to pay Cigna for cancer treatments--System sees increases in enrollment and online education credits--Even with recent fires, reports show decrease in campus arson

The Therapeutic Function Of Testamentary Formality, Mark Glover

Faculty Articles

Therapeutic jurisprudence is concerned with the psychological consequences of the law This article uses this burgeoning field to analyze one aspect of the estate planning process namely the formalities of willexecution The article first identifies the positive and negative psychological consequences of the formalities that require valid wills to be written signed and witnessed Although the analysis suggests that when coupled with a rule of strict compliance these formalities can negatively affect the testator's psychological wellbeing the article ultimately concludes that testamentary formality serves an overall therapeutic function The article then examines various reforms of the law of wills such …

Environmental Law And Fossil Fuels: Barriers To Renewable Energy, Uma Outka

Vanderbilt Law Review

Renewable energy is gaining momentum around the globe, but the United States has only just begun to change its energy trajectory away from fossil fuels. Today, only about 10% of electricity in the United States is generated from renewable energy, and most of that comes from hydroelectric power plants that have been operating for many years. The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects 30% of new capacity over the next twenty years will utilize renewable resources, without significant changes in U.S. energy policy, but at that pace renewable energy will still account for only 16% of generated electricity. These prospects stand …

Otter Realm, November 1, 2012, California State University, Monterey Bay

The Otter Realm

Governor Comments on CSUMB Lawsuit & Prop. 30 -- What You Otter Be Doing November 1 - November 14 -- It's a Marathon, Not a Sprint: Political Saturation in American Lives -- Making A Difference: CSUMB Students Volunteer to Beautify Downtown Salinas -- Two Candidates, One Office, Five Days, The Student Voice!: What do Otters look for in their next President? -- The Power of Deduction: Accusations Over Payroll Deductions Surface...Again -- Graduating to Master Level: Grad School Fair Helps Map Students' Futures -- Salinas Walks Against Violence: "Cultivating Peace Through Faith and Action" Procession -- The Ups and Downs …

The Delimitation Of Corporate Social Responsibility: Upstream, Downstream, And Historic Csr, Judith Schrempf-Stirling

Management Faculty Publications

The dissertation abstract and the reflection commentary present the work of Judith Schrempf. The dissertation examines the latest trends in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and advances a social connection approach to CSR to understand and explain those recent trends. The dissertation abstract provides an overview of the research questions and conclusions of the three-article dissertation. The reflection commentary discusses the author’s views of research process as a junior scholar (see Appendix).

Assessing Soil Lead Contamination At Multiple Scales In Oakland, California: Implications For Urban Agriculture And Environmental Justice, Nathan Mcclintock

Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations

As urban agriculture grows in popularity throughout North America, vacant lots, underutilized parks, and other open spaces are becoming prime targets for food production. In many post-industrial landscapes and in neighborhoods with a high density of old housing stock, the risk of lead (Pb) contamination at such sites is raising concerns. This paper evaluates the extent to which soil Pb contamination may be an obstacle to the expansion of urban agriculture in Oakland, California. Using a combination of soil sampling at 112 sites, GIS, “hot spot” analysis, and reconstructed land use histories, the research reveals that soil Pb concentrations are …

Flyer News, Vol. 60, No. 13 (Oct. 26, 2012), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton.

Preserving Legal Avenues For Climate Justice In Florida Post-American Electric Power, Allison Fishman

Florida Law Review

No abstract provided.

Planetarian Identity Formation And The Relocalization Of Environmental Law, Sarah Krakoff

Florida Law Review

Local food, local work, local energy production-all are hallmarks of a resurgence of localism throughout contemporary environmental thought and action. The renaissance of localism might be seen as a retreat from the world’s global environmental problems. This Article maintains, however, that some forms of localism are actually expressions, appropriate ones, of a planetary environmental consciousness. This Article’s centerpiece is an in-depth evaluation of local climate action initiatives, including interviews with participants, as well as other data and observations about their ethics, attitudes, behaviors, and motivations. The values and identities being forged in these initiatives form the basis for timely conceptions …

Evaluating Potential Nonpoint Source Pollution Impacts In The Upper Reaches Of The Horse Creek Watershed In Aiken County, Sc, S M. Harmon, K E. Edgington, J L. Pinckney, J R. Yates, P W. Steen

S.C. Water Resources Conference

2012 S.C. Water Resources Conference - Exploring Opportunities for Collaborative Water Research, Policy and Management

Identifying Fecal Pollution Sources Through Antibiotic Resistance Analysis (Ara): Sand River, Aiken County, Sc, Ryan T. West, James R. Yates, S Michele Harmon

S.C. Water Resources Conference

2012 S.C. Water Resources Conference - Exploring Opportunities for Collaborative Water Research, Policy and Management

Introduction: Sex, Sexuality, And Gender As Useful Categories In Environmental History, Nancy Unger

History

This book is an effort to explain these kinds of extreme gendered divisions and to offer an enriched understanding of the powerful interplay between environment and sex, sexuality, and gender. The synergy produced by that interplay has been significant throughout American history, but it cannot be adequately understood and appreciated as long as those fields are discussed as discrete entities. The fields of gender and environment are growing, but scholars have seldom joined them together in analysis or heeded historian Carolyn Merchant's call that a gendered perspective be added to conceptual frameworks in environmental history.5 They have not offered a …

We Make The Spring Rolls, They Make Their Own Rules: Filipina Domestic Workers’ Fight For Labor Rights In New York City And Los Angeles, Ariella Rotramel

Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Faculty Publications

This article provides a multidimensional examination of Filipina domestic workers’ efforts to promote workers’ rights nationally and globally. Through their own experiences as transnational workers, Filipina activists were able to translate their knowledge of labor dynamics into practical and effective tactics such as the demand for labor contracts as an industry standard. Combining ethnographic research and interviews conducted with New York– based Filipina domestic worker activists with primary and secondary sources from Los Angeles, recent advocacy work in New York is compared with efforts in Los Angeles and California more broadly. Key points of comparison—demographics and organizing histories, geography and …

Academic Affairs Happenings, Volume 1, Issue 1, Office Of Academic Affairs, Roger Williams University

Academic Affairs Newsletter

The Newsletter is an ongoing publication that highlights the wide range of work in which RWU faculty and students are engaged.

United States Flood Control Policy: The Incomplete Transition From The Illusion Of Total Protection To Risk Management, A. Dan Tarlock

All Faculty Scholarship

Until the mid-twentieth century, the story of modern flood control was the transition from adaptation to the inevitable to an expectation that government would provide maximum flood prevention and generous post-disaster relief for floodplain dwellers. For the last sixty years or so, the story has been the growing recognition, especially as the understanding of climate change has increased, that the goal of maximum protection is unobtainable because flood damage is an inevitable risk that can only be managed, but never totally avoided. Thus, we are now making the transition to the idea that we must manage floodplains through a combination …

Environmental Law At Maryland, No. 34, Fall 2012

Environmental Law at Maryland

No abstract provided.

The Socializer-Fall 2012, Department Of Sociology

The Socializer

No abstract provided.

Environmental And Energy Law Perspectives: Fall 2012, Environmental And Energy Law Program

Environmental and Energy Law Perspectives

No abstract provided.

Course Offerings, Fall 2012 [Difficult Dialogues], Clark University

Difficult Dialogues (2006-2013)

Difficult Dialogues course offerings for the Fall 2012 semester. While each semester's Difficult Dialogues programming centered around a theme, the initiative's course offerings covered a broader range of topic approaching the process of dialogues in a variety of ways and across a number of disciplines.

Clark University's Difficult Dialogues initiative was launched in 2006 and ran through 2013. The initiative aimed to raise awareness and develop skills of dialogue as a distinct approach to discourse, as well as encourage its practice among faculty, staff, and students.

Bottom Canyon Hazardous Fuel Reduction Phase Ii, United States Department Of The Interior, Bureau Of Land Management

Environmental Assessments (UT)

The purpose of the Bottom Canyon Hazardous Fuel Reduction Phase II project is to reduce the buildup of hazardous fuels that have accumulated over the last several decades in order to prevent the potential for large catastrophic fire events. In addition, the proposed action is needed to maintain important sage-steppe habitat for a variety of wildlife species in the project area.

Patronage Politics And Natural Resources: A Historical Case Study Of Southeast Asia And Indonesia, H. Varkkey

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

As the modernisation of agribusiness became a more important driver of development for many Southeast Asian states, the region’s environment has become severely degraded. This paper argues that throughout the developmental history of Southeast Asia, the role of patronage politics has been a key factor behind environmental degradation. It presents historical evidence of circumstances preceding and surrounding early appearances of patronage networks in the region, particularly within the natural resource sector. Upon decolonization, the attitudes of the decision-making elite of the region shaped development to focus on elite-centred natural resource exploitation. With government structures, processes and policies often favouring the …

Fall 2012 Utton Center Newsletter, Utton Center, University Of New Mexico - School Of Law

Publications

No abstract provided.

Democracy And Sustainability In Reconstructing Haiti: A Possibility Or A Mirage?, Irwin P. Stotzky, Brian Concannon Jr.

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.

Cajuns (Research Report #118), Crystal Paul, Amanda Cowley, Mark J. Schafer

LSU AgCenter Research Reports

This review discusses the experiences of Cajuns in the region. Acadians, or Cajuns, are a unique group of people who now reside primarily in 22 parishes in south Louisiana and are often characterized by their unique culture.

Using The Environmental History Of The Commonwealth To Enhance Pennsylvania And U. S. History Courses, Charles A. Hardy Iii

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Disaster Justice: The Geography Of Human Capability, Robert R.M. Verchick

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum

No abstract provided.

United States Flood Control Policy: The Incomplete Transition From The Illusion Of Total Protection To Risk Management, A. Dan Tarlock

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum

No abstract provided.

Mining And Access To Justice: From Sanction And Remedy To Weak Non-Judicial Grievance Mechanisms

UBC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Slow Violence And The Environmentalism Of The Poor, By Rob Nixon, Dayna Nadine Scott

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

IN SEEKING TO UNDERSTAND the relationships of the local to the global in contemporary environmental justice struggles, we have yearned for a way to trace the “occluded relationships” between transnational economic actors and the things that tie them to particular places, such as labour, land, resources, and commodity dynamics. The bodies caught in the middle have been ‘raced’ and erased, made invisible, and wiped away. With gripping urgency, Rob Nixon’s book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor brings those bodies back into view by exposing the violence perpetrated against them across time and space.