International Development, Community, and Environment
International Development, Community, and Environment (IDCE) is home to scholar-practitioners pursuing solutions to pressing challenges in the 21st century. Our mission is to strive for a more just and sustainable world. We embrace the complexity of urgent social, political, and ecological problems and seek to approach these challenges through multidisciplinary teaching and learning, collaborative scholarship, and innovation.
Complex challenges require novel solutions built on a deep, multifaceted understanding of the task at hand. For example, how can we support marginal communities as they adapt to the impacts of climate change? When do market forces succeed in increasing wealth and well-being, and when do they fail? What gives rise to health disparities across communities and countries, and how can we address them? The IDCE community engages in translational, hands-on research that defies disciplinary categorization, and is uniquely effective.
IDCE Faculty Works from 2014
From Land to Water: Fixing Fluid Frontiers and the Politics of Lines in the South China/Eastern Sea, Ken MacLean
2014 Massachusetts Family Impact Seminar: A Lot On Our Plate; Chronic Health Threats in Massachusetts, Ira S. Ockene M.D., Christina D. Economos Ph.D, Barbara Goldoftas Ph.D, Denise A. Hines Ph.D., Caitlin Alcorn, Jacqueline A. Daigneault, Jordan R. Daley, Maura A. Flanagan, Carsten-Hendrik Rasche, Heather Rios, Julia Tran, and Liam Kelly Fleming
Geospatial Analysis of Neighborhood Characteristics and Access to Fresh Produce: The Role of Farmers' Markets and Roadside Farm Stands, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger and Fei Meng
Environmental Ascription in Worcester County, MA: Toxic Pollution and Education Outcomes, Anna Rosofsky, Cristina A. Lucier, Bruce London, Helen Scharber, Ramón Borges-Méndez, and John Shandra
Becoming a Youth Worker in a Classroom Community of Practice, Laurie Ross
Introduction: Engaging Critically from theory to policy and implementation, David Simon and Edward Carr
Woody Plant Diversity in an Afromontane Agricultural Landscape (Debark District, Northern Ethiopia), Belay Tefera, Morgan Ruelle, Zemede Asfaw, and Berhanu Abraha Tsegay
IDCE Faculty Works from 2013
Anatomies of Conflict: Social Mobilization and New Political Ecologies of the Andes, Anthony Bebbington, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Leonith Hinojosa, María Luisa Burneo, and Jeffrey Bury
Extraction, Inequality and Indigenous Peoples: Insights from Bolivia, Denise Humphreys Bebbington
Grassroots Innovations and Socio-Technical System Change: Energy Retrofitting of the Residential Housing Stock, Halina Szejnwald Brown and Philip J. Vergragt
Societal Innovation in a Constrained World: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives, Halina Szejnwald Brown, Philip J. Vergragt, and Maurie J. Cohen
Livelihoods as Intimate Government: Reframing the logic of livelihoods for development, Edward Carr
Innovations in Sustainable Consumption: New Economics, Socio-Technical transitions and Social Practices, Maurie J. Cohen, Halina Szejnwald Brown, and Philip J. Vergragt
Conflict Over the Consequences of Humiliation, Joseph de Rivera
Are You Missing Gender Right in Front of You?: How to Do a Gender Analysis of ANYTHING, Cynthia Enloe
Are You Missing Gender Right in Front of You?: Patriarchy 101: How It is Being Updated, Cynthia Enloe
Are You Missing Gender Right in Front of You?: You Can’t Militarize Men Without Militarizing Women, Cynthia Enloe
Combat and ‘Combat’: A Feminist Reflection, Cynthia Enloe
Masculinities, Policing, Women and International Politics of Sexual Harassment, Cynthia Enloe
Seriously!: Investigating Crashes and Crises As If Women Mattered, Cynthia Enloe
When Feminists Explore Masculinities in IR: An Engagement with Maya Eichler, Cynthia Enloe
Mbaraan and the Shifting Political Economy of Sex in Urban Senegal, Ellen Foley and Fatou Maria Drame
Rethinking nuclear emergency planning, preparations, and response, Robert Goble and Vicki Bier
Risk Assessment Can Be a Game-Changing Information Technology-But Too Often It Isn't, Robert Goble and Vicki Bier
2013 Massachusetts Family Impact Seminar: Youth at Risk, Part 2, Denise A. Hines, Fern L. Johnson, Donna Haig Friedman, and Deborah A. Frank
Environmental Injustice in the Spatial Distribution of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: A Case Study from Ohio, USA, Julia Lenhardt and Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger
The Government of Mistrust: Illegibility and Bureaucratic Power in Socialist Vietnam, Ken MacLean
Examining the Impact of Environmental Factors on Quality of Life Across Massachusetts, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Rahul Rakshit, and Hamil Pearsall
Promise Arizona: Building Immigrant Political Power, Margaret Post
Measuring the Vulnerability of Populations Susceptible to Lead Contamination in the Dominican Republic: Evaluating Composite Index Construction Methods, Samuel J. Ratick and Jeffrey P. Osleeb
The Impact of Tree Cover Loss on Land Surface Temperature: A Case Study of Central Massachusetts Using Landsat Thematic Mapper Thermal Data, John Rogan, Martha Ziemer, Deborah Martin, Samuel Ratick, Nicholas Cuba, and Verna DeLauer
Mental Health and Gun Control Briefing Report, Harris Rollinger
Urban Youth Workers' Use of "Personal Knowledge" in Resolving Complex Dilemmas of Practice, Laurie Ross
Foodways Transmission in the Standing Rock Nation, Morgan Ruelle and Karim Aly Kassam
A comparison of support vector machines and manual change detection for land-cover map updating in Massachusetts, USA, Brenna Schwert, John Rogan, Nicholas Giner, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Samuel Blanchard, and Curtis Woodcock
Characterizing the Potential Distribution of the Invasive Asian Longhorned Beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) in Worcester County, Massachusetts, Andrew Shatz, John Rogan, Florencia Sangermano, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, and Hao Chen
Conversion to Organic Farming in the Continental United States: A Geographically Weighted Regression Analysis, Alina Taus, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, and John Rogan
Vulnerability to Climate-Induced Highland Malaria in East Africa, Shem Wandiga, Maggie Opondo, Daniel Olago, Andrew Githeko, Faith Githui, Michael Marshall, Timothy Downs, Alfred Opere, Pius Yanda, Richard Kangalawe, Robert Kabumbuli, Edward Kirumira, James Kathuri, Eugene Apindi, Lydia Olaka, Laban Ogallo, Paul Mugambi, Rehema Sigalla, Robinah Nanyunja, Timothy Baguma, and Pius Achola
IDCE Faculty Works from 2012
Sustainability Science Needs to Include Sustainable Consumption, Halina Szejnwald Brown
Temporal Variations in the Distribution of West Nile Virus Within the United States; 2000-2008, Alexander Carnes and Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger
Assessing the Vulnerability of Coastal Communities to Extreme Storms: The Case of Revere, Massachusetts, US, George E. Clark, Susanne C. Moser, Samuel J. Ratick, Kirstin Dow, William B. Meyer, Srinivas Emani, Weigen Jin, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson, and Harry E. Schwarz
Militarism, Patriarchy and Peace Movements, Cynthia Cockburn and Cynthia Enloe
Emotions as Transformational Structures, Joseph De Rivera
Resisting Blackness, Embracing Rightness: How Muslim Arab Sudanese Women Negotiate Their Identity in the Diaspora, Anita Fábos
The Spatial Variability of Heat-Related Mortality in Massachusetts, David Hattis, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, and Samuel Ratick
Youth at Risk: Part 1, 2012 Massachusetts Family Impact Seminar, Lisa M. Jones, Ramon Borges-Mendez, Janis Wolak, Denise A. Hines, Michelle E. Collett, Lillian Denhardt, Lindsay A. Evans, Rashmi Nair, and Stephanie L. Nguyen
Enacting Anticorruption: The Reconfiguration of Audit Regimes in Contemporary Vietnam, Ken MacLean
Lawfare and Impunity in Burma Since the 2000 Ban on Forced Labour, Ken MacLean
Evaluating the Vulnerability of Drinking Water Resources to Climate Change, Chi Ho Sham, Samuel Ratick, Daniel Runfola, Kathleen White, Jeffrey Arnold, and Julie Blue
The Challenge of Energy Retrofitting the Residential Housing Stock: Grassroots Innovations and Socio-Technical System Change in Worcester, MA, Philip J. Vergragt and Halina Szejnwald Brown
Climate, Malaria and Cholera in the Lake Victoria Region: Adapting to Changing Risks, Pius Yanda, Shem Wandiga, Richard Kangalawe, Maggie Opondo, Dan Olago, Andrew Githeko, Timothy Downs, Robert Kabumbuli, Alfred Opere, Faith Githui, James Kathuri, Lydia Olaka, Eugene Apindi, Michael Marshall, Laban Ogallo, Paul Mugambi, Edward Kirumira, Robinah Nanyunja, Timothy Baguma, Rehema Sigalla, and Pius Achola
IDCE Faculty Works from 2011
Cool Aid? Health, Wellbeing and Place in the Work of Bono and U2, Gavin Andrews, Robin Kearns, Paul Kingsbury, and Edward Carr
Federating and Defending: Water, Territory and Extraction in the Andes, Anthony Bebbington, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, and Jeffrey Bury
Stateside Puerto Ricans and the public workforce development system: New York City, Hartford, Springfield/Holyoke, Ramón Borges-Méndez
Delivering Development: Globalization’s Shoreline and the Road to a Sustainable Future, Edward Carr
Teaching About the Culture of Peace as an Approach to Peace Education, Joseph de Rivera
Vulnerability, Risk Perception, and Health Profile of Marginalized People Exposed to Multiple Built-Environment Stressors in Worcester, Massachusetts: A Pilot Project, Timothy Downs, Laurie Ross, Robert Goble, Rajendra Subedi, Sara Greenberg, and Octavia Taylor
The Mundane Matters, Cynthia Enloe
Diaspora, Faith, and Science: Building a Mouride Hospital in Senegal, Ellen Foley and Cheikh Anta Babou
From Population Control to AIDS: Conceptualising and Critiquing the Global Crisis Model, Ellen Foley and Anne Hendrixson
Courting Success in HIV/AIDS Prevention: The Challenges of Addressing a Concentrated Epidemic in Senegal, Ellen Foley and Rokhaya Nguer
"Is the Concept of a Green Economy a Useful Way of Framing Policy Discussions and Policymaking to Promote Sustainable Development?", Sheng Fulai, Gary Flomenhoft, Timothy Downs, Maángeles Grande-Ortiz, Dana Graef, Bert Scholtens, Arthur P.J. Mol, David Sonnenfeld, Gert Spaargaren, Rajeev Goel, Edward W.T. Hsieh, Serban Scrieciu, Reinhard Steurer, Christine Polzin, Genia Kostka, Tiho Ancev, Elke Pirgmaier, Frank Boons, Karl Henrik Robèrt, Christopher Bryant, Ke Zhou, Surya Raj Acharya, David Huberman, Denis Sonwa, Michelle Mycoo, Dabo Guan, Klaus Hubacek, U. Rashid Sumaila, Hector Lopez-Ruiz, G. Jason Jolley, Michael Dougherty, André Francisco Pilon, and Ravi Prakash
Ecology of Time: Calendar of the Human Body in the Pamir Mountains, Karim Aly Kassam, Umed Bulbulshoev, and Morgan Ruelle
The Global Reporting Initiative: Collaboration and Conflict in the Development of Non-Financial Reporting, David L. Levy and Halina Szejnwald Brown
The Global Reporting Initiative: Promise and limitations, David L. Levy and Halina Szejnwald Brown
Revolutionising the AIDS Response, Jessica Ogden, Geeta Rao Gupta, Ann Warner, and William F. Fisher
Combining Community-Based Learning and Catholic Social Teaching in Educating for Democratic Citizenship, Margaret Post and Susan Crawford Sullivan
Training the "Wizards": A model for building self efficacy and peer networks among Urban youth workers, Laurie Ross, Suzanne Buglione, and Jennifer Safford-Farquharson
Diversity of Plant Knowledge as an Adaptive Asset: A Case Study with Standing Rock Elders, Morgan Ruelle and Karim Aly Kassam
Social Capital and AIDS-Resilient Communities: Strengthening the AIDS Response, Barbara Thomas-Slayter and William Fisher
Seeing REDD+ as a Project of Environmental Governance, Mary Thompson, Manali Baruah, and Edward Carr
IDCE Faculty Works from 2010
Extraction, Territory, and Inequalities: Gas in the Bolivian Chaco, Denise Humphreys Bebbington and Anthony Bebbington
The Place of Stories in Development: Creating Spaces for Participation Through Narrative Analysis, Edward Carr
Individual Consumption and Systemic Societal Transformation: Introduction to the Special Issue, Maurie J. Cohen, Halina Szejnwald Brown, and Philip J. Vergragt
Vulnerability-Based Spatial Sampling Stratification for the National Children's Study, Worcester County, Massachusetts: Capturing Health-Relevant Environmental and Sociodemographic Variability, Timothy Downs, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Onesky Aupont, Yangyang Wang, Ann Raj, Paula Zimmerman, Robert Goble, Octavia Taylor, Linda Churchill, Celeste Lemay, Thomas Mclaughlin, and Marianne Felice
Participatory Testing and Reporting in an Environmental-Justice community of Worcester, Massachusetts: A pilot project, Timothy Downs, Laurie Ross, Danielle Mucciarone, Maria Camila Calvache, Octavia Taylor, and Robert Goble
Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War, Cynthia Enloe
The Risks of Scholarly Militarization: A Feminist Analysis, Cynthia Enloe
Who Should be Interviewed in Surveys of Household Income?, Monica Fisher, Jeffrey Reimer, and Edward Carr
Your Pocket is What Cures You: The Politics of Health in Senegal, Ellen Foley
Are Conundrums with Uncertainty Factors an Obstacle to Developing Probabilistic Interpretations of Noncancer Risks from Chemicals?: Commentary, Robert Goble and Dale Hattis
Anatomy of a Regional Conflict: Tarija and Resource Grievances in Moraless Bolivia, Denise Humphreys Bebbington and Anthony Bebbington
Forum on Political Ecology of the U.S. South Introduction: Why a Political Ecology of the U.S. South?, Patrick Hurley and Edward Carr
Medicinal Plant Use and Health Sovereignty: Findings from the Tajik and Afghan Pamirs, Karim Aly Kassam, Munira Karamkhudoeva, Morgan Ruelle, and Michelle Baumflek
Modeling data envelopment analysis (DEA) efficient location/allocation decisions, Ronald K. Klimberg, Samuel J. Ratick, Vinay Tavva, Sasanka Vuyyuru, and Daniel Mrazik
The Contested Politics of Corporate Governance: The Case of the Global Reporting Initiative, David L. Levy, Halina Brown, and Martin de Jong
Predicting Prehistoric Taro (Colocasia esculenta var. antiquorum) Lo'i Distribution in Hawaii, Jocelyn Müller, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Stephen Lloyd, and J. Michael Reed
Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Noise Pollution Near Boston Logan airport: Who Carries the Cost?, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger and Brian Cooperman
Using Geographic Information Systems to Compare the Density of Stores Selling Tobacco and Alcohol: Youth Making an Argument for Increased Regulation of the Tobacco Permitting Process in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Laurie Ross, William Burdick, and Sheryl Ann Simpson
An Interperiod Network Storage Location-Allocation (INSLA) Model for Rail Distribution of Ethanol Biofuels, Jeffrey P. Osleeb and Samuel J. Ratick
Grassroots Coalitions and State Policy Change: Organizing for Immigrant Health Care, Margaret Post
Nuclear Waste: Progress with Public Engagement — Response, Eugene Rosa, Seth Tuler, Baruch Fischhoff, Thomas Webler, Sharon Friedman, Richard Sclove, Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Mary English, Roger Kasperson, Robert Goble, Thomas. Leschine, William Freudenburg, Caron Chess, Charles Perrow, Kai Erikson, and James Short
Nuclear Waste: Knowledge Waste?, Eugene Rosa, Seth Tuler, Baruch Fischhoff, Thomas Webler, Sharon Friedman, Richard Sclove, Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Mary English, Roger. Kasperson, Robert Goble, Thomas Leschine, William Freudenburg, Caron Chess, Charles Perrow, Kai Erikson, and James Short
GMO as a Sustainability Issue: The Role of the Global Reporting Initiative, Philip J. Vergragt and Halina Szejnwald Brown
Vulnerability to Epidemic Malaria in the Highlands of Lake Victoria Basin: The Role of Climate Change/Variability, Hydrology and Socio-Economic Factors, Shem Wandiga, Maggie Opondo, Daniel Olago, Andrew Githeko, Faith Githui, Michael Marshall, Timothy Downs, Alfred Opere, Christopher Oludhe, Gilbert Ouma, Pius Yanda, Richard Kangalawe, Robert Kabumbuli, James Kathuri, Eugene Apindi, Lydia Olaka, Laban Ogallo, Paul Mugambi, Rehema Sigalla, Robinah Nanyunja, Timothy Baguma, and Pius Achola
Measuring the Emotional Climate of an Organization, Gülçimen Yurtsever and Joseph de Rivera
IDCE Faculty Works from 2009
The Rise of the Global Reporting Initiative: A Case of Institutional Entrepreneurship, Halina Szejnwald Brown, Martin de Jong, and Teodorina Lessidrenska