What are the enduring effects of community‐based conflict resolution processes? According to the research reported here, lessons participants learn in conflict resolution processes disseminate to their communities; secondly, such dissemination can be measured by content analysis of participants’ constituent organization newsletters. The authors illustrate their findings with a case study of the New Community Meeting conflict resolution model (NCM), implemented 1997–98 in an Oregon community to address business‐environmental conflict over growth and sustainable development. Content analysis of business and environmental newsletters over 21 months, including before and after NCM, shows increasing positive and decreasing negative references to former adversaries over the period, together with advocacy for collaboration. The authors frame this study using social exchange theory, and conclude that this theoretical paradigm fits conflict resolution and consensus‐building processes well.
This article examines four overlapping structural changes in the Pacific Sociological Association's membership since the 1970s: (1) a burgeoning student participation, (2) the seeming withdrawal of faculty from research-based universities, (3) the feminization of the PSA's leadership, and (4) the fading proportion of men at all levels of the organization. Instead of signaling a weakened professional association, however, these changes point to an energized PSA that leads other American regional sociological associations on indicators valued by sociologists. Three principal data sources inform this analysis: PSA administrative records; content analysis of the PSA
For thousands of years, the average woman spent 100 percent of her adult life in childbearing and child-rearing and averaged five or fewer menstrual cycles in her lifetime. That changed radically in the last few generations. Today, the average American woman will spend just 15 to 20 percent of her adult life in childbearing and -rearing, if she elects to have a child at all, and she will experience up to 500 menstrual cycles. I illustrate these changes with examples from generations of my own family and speculate about how such structural changes in families and households can affect gender inequality.
Résumé -Mettre un prix sur les agrements environnementaux, une évaluation de la méthode de valuation contingente : Les auteurs préparent actuellement un rapport pour présenter la méthode de valuation contingente (CV) aux non-économistes. La CV est une méthdode par enquête par questionnaire développée par des économistes pour estimer la valeur monétaire des agréments environnementaux. Ici, les auteurs présentent la méthode CV avec des références dans la littérature scientifique qui décrivent son développement et son évolution. Valuation contingente (CV), Economie de l'environnement, Enquête par questionnaire.Abstract: The authors are preparing an essay that will introduce non-economists to contingent valuation (CV) -a survey method developed by economists to estimate prices for environmental assets. Here, they present the CV method with références in the scieitific literature describing its development and evolution. Contingent Valuation (CV), Environmental Economics, Survey Research.How much would you pay to improve the viability of native salmon in the Columbia River system, to protect an urban garden, or for a breath of fresh air? Putting a price tag on an ocean view may seem ludicrous, but U.S. public policy increasingly requires social scientists to estimate the monetary value of the goods and services nature provides humans. Spurred by industrial disasters, regulatory decisions, court orders, and resource management strategies over the last 20 years, state and local governments, courts, municipal utilities, trade representatives, and tribal governments need progressively more environmental valuation for natural resource planning, policymaking,
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