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 2009
Building Institutions Based on Information Disclosure: Lessons from GRI's Sustainability Reporting, Halina Szejnwald Brown, Martin de Jong, and David L. Levy
Commentary: The Challenge of Quantifying Susceptibility to Drought-Related Crisis, Edward Carr and Nathan Kettle
Evaluating Poverty-Environment Dynamics, Edward Carr, Nathan Kettle, and A. Hoskins
The Co-Production of Land Use and Livelihoods Change: Implications for Development Interventions, Edward Carr and Brent McCusker
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
Future Directions in Campus-Community Partherships: Location of Service-learning Offices and Activities in Higher Education, Elizabeth Carmichael Strong, Patrick Green, Micki Meyer, and Margaret Post
Carbon Offsets and Inequality: Social Costs and Co-Benefits in Guatemala and Sri Lanka, Hannah Wittman and Cynthia Caron
IDCE 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
Sustainable Development and Participatory Practices in Community Forestry: The Case of FUNDECOR in Costa Rica, Ramón Borges-Méndez
Bounded Socio-Technical Experiments as Agents of Systemic Change: The Case of a Zero-Energy Residential Building, Halina Szejnwald Brown and Philip J. Vergragt
Between Structure and Agency: Livelihoods and Adaptation in Ghana's Central Region, Edward Carr
Rethinking Poverty Alleviation: A 'Poverties' Approach, Edward Carr
The Millennium Village Project and African Development: Problems and Potentials, Edward Carr
Transforming Impact Assessment for Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication, Timothy Downs
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
'Brothers' or Others?: Propriety and Gender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in Egypt, Anita Fábos
Neoliberal Reform and Health Dilemmas: Social Hierarchy and Therapeutic Decision Making in Senegal, Ellen Foley
"Theirs Not to Reason Why" - The Practicalities of Providing adequate Summary Reasons for Grants of Planning Permission, Richard Ford and Hugh Richards
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
IDCE 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
There's a Devil on Wayamba Beach: Social Dramas of Development and Citizenship in Northwest Sri Lanka, Cynthia Caron and Dia Da Costa
Applying DPSIR to Sustainable Development, Edward Carr, Philip Wingard, Sara Yorty, Mary Thompson, Natalie Jensen, and Justin Roberson
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
Urban refugees: Introduction, Anita Fábos and Gaim Kibreab
How Do You Solve a Problem Like ... LDFs?, Richard Ford
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
IDCE 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
Growth in IT and Organizational Experience in BATEC, Ramón Borges-Méndez and Deborah Boisvert
Social Learning Through Technological Inventions in Low-Impact Individual Mobility: The Cases of Sparrow and Gizmo, Halina Szejnwald Brown and Catherine Carbone
Postmodern Conceptualizations, Modernist Applications: Rethinking the Role of Society in Food Security, Edward Carr
Conceptual Encounter. The Experience of Anger, Joseph De Rivera
The Co-Production of Livelihoods and Land Use Change: Case Studies from South Africa and Ghana, Brent McCusker and Edward Carr
Where Do We Belong? Urban Adolescents' Struggle for Place and Voice, Laurie Ross
IDCE 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
Rebuilding Social Capital in Post-Conflict Regions: Women's Village Banking in Ayacucho, Peru and in Highland Guatemala, Denise Humphreys Bebbington and Arelis Gómez
Can Poland's Success in Environmental Policy Reforms Translate Into Technological Innovation for Environment?, Halina Szejnwald Brown
Commentary: Riddim Me This, Riddim Me That, Edward Carr
Development and the Household: Missing the Point?, Edward Carr
Placing the Environment in Migration: Environment, Economy, and Power in Ghana's Central Region, Edward Carr
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
IDCE 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
Reconfiguring the Debate on Engagement: Burmese Exiles and the Changing Politics of Aid, Ken MacLean
Youth Civic Engagement: Emerging Theory and Practice, Margaret Post
Leveraging Resources to Promote Positive School-CBO Relationships, Christopher Wimer, Margaret Post, and Priscilla Little
IDCE 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
Sudanese Identity in Diaspora and the Meaning of home: The Transformative Role of Sudanese NGOs in Cairo, Anita Fábos
NGOs and Production of Indigenous Knowledge Under the Condition of Postmodernity, Jude Fernando
The Power of Unsustainable Development: What is to Be Done?, Jude Fernando
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
IDCE 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