This dissertation draws on ethnographic data and political ecological theory to analyze the experience of residents living in the IBM-Endicott Superfund site in Endicott, New York. Combining in-depth narratives and quantitative measures from a household survey, it highlights residents' perceptions of 1) environmental health risk, 2) risk mitigation, 3) deindustrialization...
• Moved to Lakeview 5 years ago.
• Retired ranchers; husband’s family was in ranching.
• Worked in school as teacher’s aid and administrator for 27 years.
•Born in 1933
•widow
•moved to Lakeview in December of 1950 when she was 17
•originally from Oklahoma
•husband was volunteer fireman and EMT; held city council position for 14 years; became Fire Chief
• General Manager of Lake County Examiner (Lake County Newspaper)
• Married into the community, married a rancher and moved here 25 years ago.
• Family has two ranches: one in Betty and one in Plush.
Adoption of aquaculture, particularly among the rural poor, requires timely
and quality seed at the farmer level. In areas of Northwest Bangladesh, the
region considered most marginalised for food production, carp polyculture
has been improved through the introduction of Nile tilapia, but constrained
by under-developed seed supply. In order to...
Early-successional stages have been truncated and altered in many western U.S. forest landscapes by
planting conifers, controlling competing vegetation, suppressing fire, and focusing on maintaining late-seral
species and undisturbed riparian zones. Declining area of early-successional stages may be reducing
resilience and sustainability on landscapes that experience elevated disturbance related to...
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