The cessation of most human activities resulting from post-World War II expulsions and forced displacements in Central Europe triggered massive land cover transformation mountainous areas. However, many pre-War traces past landscapes have survived—imprinted microtopography—in permanently abandoned villages. Currently, they constitute unique cultural heritage communities no longer existence. Our...

Introduction Mark A. Rees examined South Louisiana identity and its relationship to the le Grand Derangement. In his investigation of the Armand Broussard homesite he concludes that there is a tangible connection of the built historical landscape of Acadiana to the cultural impacts of displacement (Rees 2008, 252). He also suggests that Acadian culture should be seen in a context of assimilatio...

Privately-owned forests in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) are important potential carbon sinks and play a large role sequestration storage. Non-industrial private forest (NIPF) owners constitute substantial portion of overall landownership productive regions PNW; however, little is known about their preferences for non-market incentive programs aimed at increased storage sequestration, specificall...

On October 19-21, 2004, the USDA, APHIS, Wildlife Services, National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC) in Fort Collins, CO, hosted the 2nd National Invasive Rodent Summit. The conference was jointly sponsored by the NWRC, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and The Wildlife Society’s Wildlife Damage Management Working Group. The conference was a follow-up to the 2001 “Rat Summit” held in San...

Writing in 1857, Hinton Helper predicted that “three-quarters of a century hence, if slavery is abolished within the next ten years, as it ought to be, the South will, we believe, be as much greater than the North, as the North is now greater than the South.“’ To a Northern observer of the 1970s generous enough to allow Mr. Helper the leeway of a half-century or so, his prognosis seems uncomfor...

Land use and land cover study has recently become an important subject in understanding social and economic dynamics of the landscape. The availability of census data at the finer scale and development of spatial analysis tools for analyzing raster and vector data have made such studies more practical and relevant. This study examined the relationship between land cover and socioeconomic and bi...

The objective of this research was to develop baseline information regarding the structure and performance of Ohio’s logging industry. Questionnaires were distributed on-site at logger chapter meetings across the state. Multivariate clustering was used to group similar types of firms based on responses to 15 productivity and cost variables. Three clusters were identified: Local Mill Suppliers, ...

1,160 words) Section I challenges Nobel laureate Schultz’s assertions: (1) small farmers are rational; (2) low income countries saddled with traditional agriculture have not the problem of many farmers leaving agriculture for nonfarm jobs; (3) part-time farming can be efficient; (4) economies of scale do not exist in agriculture; and (5) investment in human capital counts much more than institu...

Government administered protected areas (PAs) have dominated conservation strategies, discourse, and research, yet private actors are increasingly managing land for conservation. Little is known about the social environmental outcomes of these privately (PPAs). We searched global literature in English on PPAs their identified 412 articles suitable inclusion. Research was geographically skewed; ...

Historically, policing in Rio de Janeiro has been shaped by the equation of racialized violence and masculinity. Attempts to reform police have paradoxically drawn on forms male that are centered rational professional use force “softer” practices, such as dialogue collaboration, symbolically coded feminine. The failure reflects cultural salience understandings masculinity around within police, ...