Sustainability and Social Justice
The Sustainability and Social Justice department (formerly International Development, Community, and Environment or 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 Sustainability and Social Justice community engages in translational, hands-on research that defies disciplinary categorization, and is uniquely effective.
Faculty Works from 2010
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
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
Building Institutions Based on Information Disclosure: Lessons from GRI's Sustainability Reporting, Halina Szejnwald Brown, Martin de Jong, and David L. Levy
Complexities of Holistic Community-Based Participatory Research for a Low Income, Multi-Ethnic Population Exposed to Multiple Built-Environment Stressors in Worcester, Massachusetts, Timothy Downs, Laurie Ross, Suzanne Patton, Sarah Rulnick, Deb Sinha, Danielle Mucciarone, Maria Calvache, Sarah Parmenter, Rajendra Subedi, Donna Wysokenski, Erin Anderson, Rebecca Dezan, Kate Lowe, Jennifer Bowen, Amee Tejani, Kelly Piersanti, Octavia Taylor, and Robert Goble
Reflections, Cynthia Enloe
The Anti-Politics of Health Reform: Household Power Relations and Child Health in Rural Senegal, Ellen Foley
A Preliminary Operational Classification System for Nonmutagenic Modes of Action for Carcinogenesis, Dale Hattis, Margaret Chu, Nilufer Rahmioglu, Robert Goble, Priyanka Verma, K. Hartman, and Mary Kozlak
How Can Revenues from Natural Resources Extraction Be More Efficiently Utilized for Local Sustainable Development?, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Keith Slack, Laurenf Baker, Timothy Downs, Jeffrey McNeely, Tulus Tambunan, M. S. Iftekhar, Daniel Franks, Waldemar Souza, Simon Munthali, Oscar Wambuguh, Sylvanus S.P. Doe, Carlos Peiter, and Roberto Villas Boas
What Would Be the Three Key Preconditions for Jumpstarting or Scaling Up the Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies for Climate Change to Developing Countries?, Justin Mog, Wouter Kersten, Muhammad Mizanur Rahaman, Marko Keskinen, Timothy Downs, S. Wahid, Rafael D.Almeida Martins, Hélène Connor, Laura Williamson, Mithra Moezzi, Ahmad Houri, Bimlesh Kumar, Rahul Hiremath, Bert Scholtens, O. C. Ajayi, F. K. Akinnifesi, G. Sileshi, and Olufunso Somorin
Concrete Evidence & Geographically Weighted Regression: A Regional Analysis of Wealth and the Land Cover in Massachusetts, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Hamil Pearsall, and Rahul Rakshit
Creating an Index of Vulnerability to Severe Coastal Storms Along the North Shore of Boston, Samuel J. Ratick, Holly Morehouse, and Ronald K. Klimberg
Application and Extension of the Moore and ReVelle Hierarchical Maximal Covering Model, Samuel J. Ratick, Jeffrey P. Osleeb, and Dai Hozumi
Monte Carlo Simulation, S. Ratick and G. Schwarz
Faculty Works from 2008
Contention and Ambiguity: Mining and the Possibilities of Development, Anthony Bebbington, Leonith Hinojosa, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Maria Luisa Burneo, and Ximena Warnaars
Mining and Social Movements: Struggles Over Livelihood and Rural Territorial Development in the Andes, Anthony Bebbington, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Jeffrey Bury, Jeannet Lingan, Juan Pablo Muñoz, and Martin Scurrah
Bounded Socio-Technical Experiments as Agents of Systemic Change: The Case of a Zero-Energy Residential Building, Halina Szejnwald Brown and Philip J. Vergragt
Introduction, H. A. Eiselt and Samuel Ratick
Afterword: Hegemonic Masculinities in International Politics, Cynthia Enloe
Preface: How Jindy Pettman Redrew My Mental Map, Cynthia Enloe
Neoliberal Reform and Health Dilemmas: Social Hierarchy and Therapeutic Decision Making in Senegal, Ellen Foley
Comment: Regulatory/Risk Perspective on Chapter 2: Substantial Advances Nourish Hope for Clarity?, Robert Goble
Modeling Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) Efficient Location/Allocation Decisions, Ronald K. Klimberg and Samuel J. Ratick
In Search of Kilometer Zero: Digital archives, Technological Revisionism, and the Sino-Vietnamese Border, Ken MacLean
The Rehabilitation of an Uncomfortable Past: Everyday Life in Vietnam During the Subsidy Period (1975-1986), Ken MacLean
Promoting a Department of Peace: An Exploration of Affective States and Political Perceptions, Caitlin O. Mahoney and Joseph de Rivera
Diesel Particulate Matter, Lung Cancer, and Asthma Incidences Along Major Traffic Corridors in MA, USA: A GIS Analysis, Jesse McEntee and Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger
Application of Virtual Globes in Education, Rahul Rakshit and Yelena Ogneva-himmelberger
Locating Backup Facilities to Enhance Supply Chain Disaster Resilience, Samuel Ratick, Brian Meacham, and Yuko Aoyama
Genetic Engineering in Agriculture: New Approaches for Risk Management Through Sustainability reporting, Philip J. Vergragt and Halina Szejnwald Brown
Faculty Works from 2007
Inter-firm Relations in the Age of Instant Access: Case of the U.S. Logistics Industry, Yuko Aoyama and Samuel J. Ratick
Trust, Transactions, and Information Technologies in the U.S. Logistics Industry, Yuko Aoyama and Samuel J. Ratick
Transformation of the Environmental Regulatory System in Poland During the 1990s, Halina Szejnwald Brown
The Allure of Technology: How France and California Promoted Electric and Hybrid Vehicles to Reduce Urban Air Pollution, David Calef and Robert Goble
A Systematic Integrated Approach for Crafting Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development Projects, Timothy Downs
Achieving Millennium Development Goals for Health: Building Understanding, Trust and Capacity to Respond, Timothy Downs and Heidi Jane Larson
Feminism, Cynthia Enloe
Feminist Readings on Abu Ghraib: Introduction, Cynthia Enloe
Forward, Cynthia Enloe
Climatic, Socio-Economic, and Health Factors Affecting Human Vulnerability to Cholera in the Lake Victoria Basin, East Africa, Daniel Olago, Michael Marshall, Shem Wandiga, Maggie Opondo, Pius Yanda, Richard Kanalawe, Andrew Githeko, Timothy Downs, Alfred Opere, Robert Kavumvuli, Edward Kirumira, Laban Ogallo, Paul Mugambi, Eugene Apindi, Faith Githui, James Kathuri, Lydia Olaka, Rehema Sigalla, Robinah Nanyunja, Timothy Baguma, and Pius Achola
Sustainable Mobility: From Technological Innovation to Societal Learning, Philip J. Vergragt and Halina Szejnwald Brown
Faculty Works from 2006
Organizational Dynamics of the U.S. Logistics Industry: An Economic Geography Perspective, Yuko Aoyama, Samuel Ratick, and Guido Schwarz
Rescaling Governance and the Impacts of Political and Environmental Decentralization: An Introduction, Simon Batterbury and Jude Fernando
Social Learning Through Technological Inventions in Low-Impact Individual Mobility: The Cases of Sparrow and Gizmo, Halina Szejnwald Brown and Catherine Carbone
Conceptual Encounter. The Experience of Anger, Joseph De Rivera
Where Do We Belong? Urban Adolescents' Struggle for Place and Voice, Laurie Ross
Faculty Works from 2005
Modeling the Impact of Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce on the Organization of the Logistics Industry, Yuko Aoyama, Samuel J. Ratick, and Guido Schwarz
Can Poland's Success in Environmental Policy Reforms Translate Into Technological Innovation for Environment?, Halina Szejnwald Brown
Contrasting Some Japanese and English Positive Emotions: The Nature of Feeling, Joseph De Rivera and Kaya Ono
Data Envelopment Analysis with Stochastic Variations in Data, Anand Desai, Samuel J. Ratick, and Arie P. Schinnar
Introduction: Microcredit and Empowerment of Women: Blurring the Boundary between Development and Capitalism, Jude Fernando
Microcredit and Empowerment: Visibility Without Power, Jude Fernando
Microfinance: Perils and Prospects, Jude Fernando
Age-Related Differences in Susceptibility to Carcinogenesis. II. Approaches for Application and uncertainty Analyses for Individual Genetically Acting Carcinogens, Dale Hattis, Robert Goble, and Margaret Chu
Native American Exposure to 131 Iodine from Nuclear Weapons Testing in Nevada, Abel Russ, Patricia George, Robert Goble, Stefano Crema, Chunling Liu, and Dedee Sanchez
Faculty Works from 2004
Social Learning Through Technological Inventions in Low-Impact Individual Mobility: The Cases of Sparrow and Gizmo, Halina Szejnwald Brown and Catherine Carbone
Bounded Socio-Technical Experiments (BSTEs): Higher Order Learning for Transitions Towards Sustainable Mobility, Halina Szejnwald Brown, Philip J. Vergragt, Ken Green, and Luca Berchicci
Assessing Cultures of Peace, Joseph de Rivera
Assessing the Basis for a Culture of Peace in Contemporary Societies, Joseph De Rivera
A Template for Assessing Cultures of Peace, Joseph de Rivera
'Gender' is Not Enough: The Need for a Feminist Consciousness, Cynthia Enloe
The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire, Cynthia Enloe
Wielding Masculinity Inside Abu Ghraib: Making Feminist Sense of an American Military Scandal, Cynthia Enloe
Age-Related Differences in Susceptibility to Carcinogenesis: A Quantitative Analysis of Empirical Animal Bioassay Data, Dale Hattis, Robert Goble, Abel Russ, Margaret Chu, and Jen Ericson
Faculty Works from 2003
Leading Change: African Conceptions of Leadership and Transformation in Higher Education in South Africa, David Bell
Learning for Sustainability Transition Through Bounded Socio-Technical Experiments in Personal Mobility, Halina Szejnwald Brown, Philip Vergragt, Ken Green, and Luca Berchicci
A Conversation with Cynthia Enloe: Feminists Look at Masculinity and the Men Who Wage War, Carol Cohn and Cynthia Enloe
Blurring Boundaries: The Promise and Challenge of a District-Community Action Plan for Systemic High School Change in Worcester, Massachusetts, Thomas Del Prete and Laurie Ross
Creeping Militarization (also cataloged as Post Gulf War Forum), Cynthia Enloe
Differences in Pharmacokinetics Between Children and Adults - II. Children's Variability in Drug Elimination Half-Lives and in Some Parameters Needed for Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic Modeling, Dale Hattis, Gary Ginsberg, Bob Sonawane, Susan Smolenski, Abel Russ, Mary Kozlak, and Robert Goble
The Red Book, Risk Assessment, and Policy Analysis: The Road Not Taken, Dale Hattis and Robert Goble
Faculty Works from 2002
The Occupational and Environmental Status of Polish Industry: A Comparative Study of the Private and Public Sectors, Roman Broszkiewicz, Halina Szejnwald Brown, and Zofia Hibner
Evaluation of Child/Adult Pharmacokinetic Differences from a Database Derived from the Therapeutic Drug Literature, Gary Ginsberg, Dale Hattis, Babasaheb Sonawane, Abel Russ, Prerna Banati, Mary Kozlak, Susan Smolenski, and Robert Goble
A Straw Man Proposal for a Quantitative Definition of the RfD, Dale Hattis, Sandra Baird, and Robert Goble
Decision Making and Uncertainty: Bayesian Analysis of Potential Flood Heights, Steven M. Manson, Samuel J. Ratick, and Andrew R. Solow
Faculty Works from 2001
Making Sustainable Development Operational: Integrated Capacity Building for the Water Supply and Sanitation Sector in Mexico, Timothy Downs
Sustainable Health Risk Management and the Role of Cross-Disciplinary Professionals in Developing Countries: Mexican Experience, Timothy Downs
Syntropic Ecotoxicology: A Heuristic Model for Understanding the Vulnerability of Ecological Systems to Stress, Timothy Downs and Richard Ambrose
Closing Remarks, Cynthia Enloe
Alternatives to anarchy: Africa's transition from agricultural to industrial societies, Richard Ford and Barbara Thomas-Slayter
Modeling Tropical Deforestation in the Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region: Comparing Survey and Satellite Data, Jacqueline Geoghegan, Sergio Cortina Villar, Peter Klepeis, Pedro Mac Ario Mendoza, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, B. L. Turner, and Colin Vance
Human Interindividual Variability in Susceptibility to Airborne Particles, Dale Hattis, Abel Russ, Robert Goble, Prerna Banati, and Margaret Chu
Occupational Safety and Health in Poland in the 1990s: A Regulatory System Adapting to Societal Transformation, H. Szejnwald Brown, D. P. Angel, R. Broszkiewicz, and B. Krzyśków
Sustainable Investments: Women's Contributions to Natural Resource Management Projects in Africa, Barbara Thomas-Slayter and G. Sodikoff
Deforestation in the Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region: An Integrative Approach, B. L. Turner, Sergio Cortina Villar, David Foster, Jacqueline Geoghegan, Eric Keys, Peter Klepeis, Deborah Lawrence, Pedro Macario Mendoza, Steven Manson, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Audrey B. Plotkin, Diego Pérez Salicrup, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Basil Savitsky, Laura Schneider, Birgit Schmook, and Colin Vance
Faculty Works from 2000
The Environmental Regulation of Privatized Industry in Poland, D. P. Angel, H. S. Brown, R. Broszkiewicz, and S. Wronski
Environmental Regulatory Reform in Poland: Lessons for Industrializing Economies, H. S. Brown and D. Angel
Searching for Energy Efficiency on Campus: Clark University's 30-Year Quest, Joseph Decarolis, Robert Goble, and Christoph Hohenemser
Understanding Persons Who Repudiate Memories Recovered in Therapy, Joseph De Rivera
The Assessment of Radiation Exposures in Native American Communities from Nuclear Weapons Testing in Nevada, Eric Frohmberg, Robert Goble, Virginia Sanchez, and Dianne Quigley
Participatory research strategies in nuclear risk management for native communities, Dianne Quigley, Dan Handy, Robert Goble, Virginia Sanchez, and Patricia George
Faculty Works from 1999
Feminist Theorizing from Bananas to Maneuvers, Cynthia Enloe and Marysia Zalewski
Distributions of Individual Susceptibility Among Humans for Toxic Effects. How Much Protection Does the Traditional Tenfold Factor Provide for What Fraction of Which Kinds of Chemicals and Effects?, Dale Hattis, Prerna Banati, and Robert Goble
Human Interindividual Variability in Parameters Related to Health Risks, Dale Hattis, Prerna Banati, Robert Goble, and David Burmaster
Faculty Works from 1998
The Occupational Safety and Health System in Poland During the Transition to Democracy and a Market Economy, Roman Broszkiewicz, Barbara Krzyskow, and Halina Szejnwald Brown
