Sustainability and Social Justice

 

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.

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Faculty Works from 2004

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Assessing the Basis for a Culture of Peace in Contemporary Societies, Joseph De Rivera

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A Template for Assessing Cultures of Peace, Joseph de Rivera

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'Gender' is Not Enough: The Need for a Feminist Consciousness, Cynthia Enloe

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The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire, Cynthia Enloe

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Wielding Masculinity Inside Abu Ghraib: Making Feminist Sense of an American Military Scandal, Cynthia Enloe

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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

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Reconfiguring the Debate on Engagement: Burmese Exiles and the Changing Politics of Aid, Ken MacLean

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Youth Civic Engagement: Emerging Theory and Practice, Margaret Post

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Leveraging Resources to Promote Positive School-CBO Relationships, Christopher Wimer, Margaret Post, and Priscilla Little

Faculty Works from 2003

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Leading Change: African Conceptions of Leadership and Transformation in Higher Education in South Africa, David Bell

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Learning for Sustainability Transition Through Bounded Socio-Technical Experiments in Personal Mobility, Halina Szejnwald Brown, Philip Vergragt, Ken Green, and Luca Berchicci

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A Conversation with Cynthia Enloe: Feminists Look at Masculinity and the Men Who Wage War, Carol Cohn and Cynthia Enloe

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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

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Creeping Militarization (also cataloged as Post Gulf War Forum), Cynthia Enloe

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Sudanese Identity in Diaspora and the Meaning of home: The Transformative Role of Sudanese NGOs in Cairo, Anita Fábos

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NGOs and Production of Indigenous Knowledge Under the Condition of Postmodernity, Jude Fernando

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The Power of Unsustainable Development: What is to Be Done?, Jude Fernando

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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

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The Red Book, Risk Assessment, and Policy Analysis: The Road Not Taken, Dale Hattis and Robert Goble

Faculty Works from 2002

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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

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Examining Alternatives: the Energy Services Delivery Project in Sri Lanka, Cynthia Caron

Managing Uncertainty: Environmental and Economic Security in Coastal Ghana, 1970-2000, Edward R. Carr

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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

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Decision Making and Uncertainty: Bayesian Analysis of Potential Flood Heights, Steven M. Manson, Samuel J. Ratick, and Andrew R. Solow

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Building Relational Culture at the Jane Addams School for Democracy, Margaret Post

Faculty Works from 2001

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Development Alternatives: Practice, Dilemmas and Theory, Anthony Bebbington and Denise Bebbington

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Making Sustainable Development Operational: Integrated Capacity Building for the Water Supply and Sanitation Sector in Mexico, Timothy Downs

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Sustainable Health Risk Management and the Role of Cross-Disciplinary Professionals in Developing Countries: Mexican Experience, Timothy Downs

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Syntropic Ecotoxicology: A Heuristic Model for Understanding the Vulnerability of Ecological Systems to Stress, Timothy Downs and Richard Ambrose

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Closing Remarks, Cynthia Enloe

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Embodying Transition: FGC, Displacement, and Gender-Making for Sudanese in Cairo, Anita Fábos

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Marriage, Sudanese-style: Transnational Practices of Citizenship and Gender-making for Sudanese Nationals in Egypt, Anita Fábos

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Children's Rights: Beyond the Impasse, Jude Fernando

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No Money, No Care: Women and Health Sector Reform in Senegal, Ellen Foley

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Planning For a New Telecommunications Network in the U.K, R. Ford

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Alternatives to anarchy: Africa's transition from agricultural to industrial societies, Richard Ford and Barbara Thomas-Slayter

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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

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Human Interindividual Variability in Susceptibility to Airborne Particles, Dale Hattis, Abel Russ, Robert Goble, Prerna Banati, and Margaret Chu

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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

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Sustainable Investments: Women's Contributions to Natural Resource Management Projects in Africa, Barbara Thomas-Slayter and G. Sodikoff

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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

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The Environmental Regulation of Privatized Industry in Poland, D. P. Angel, H. S. Brown, R. Broszkiewicz, and S. Wronski

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Environmental Regulatory Reform in Poland: Lessons for Industrializing Economies, H. S. Brown and D. Angel

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Searching for Energy Efficiency on Campus: Clark University's 30-Year Quest, Joseph Decarolis, Robert Goble, and Christoph Hohenemser

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Understanding Persons Who Repudiate Memories Recovered in Therapy, Joseph De Rivera

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Changing the Culture of Underdevelopment and Unsustainability, Timothy Downs

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Effectiveness of Natural Treatment in a Wastewater Irrigation District of the Mexico City Region: A Synoptic Field Survey, Timothy Downs, Enrique Cifuentes, Edward Ruth, and Irwin Suffet

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Sustainability of Least Cost Policies for Meeting Mexico City's Future Water Demand, Timothy Downs, Marisa Mazari-Hiriart, Ramón Domínguez-Mora, and Irwin Suffet

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Selecting High-Priority Hazardous Chemicals for Tri-National Control: A Maximum-Utility Method Applied to Mexico, Timothy Downs and Carlos Santos-Burgoa

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The Assessment of Radiation Exposures in Native American Communities from Nuclear Weapons Testing in Nevada, Eric Frohmberg, Robert Goble, Virginia Sanchez, and Dianne Quigley

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Participatory research strategies in nuclear risk management for native communities, Dianne Quigley, Dan Handy, Robert Goble, Virginia Sanchez, and Patricia George

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Urban Community Action Planning Inspires Teenagers to Transform Their Community and Their Identity, Laurie Ross and Mardia Coleman

Faculty Works from 1999

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Risk Screening for Exposure to Groundwater Pollution in a Wastewater Irrigation District of the Mexico City Region, Timothy Downs, Enrique Cifuentes-García, and Irwin Suffet

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Feminist Theorizing from Bananas to Maneuvers, Cynthia Enloe and Marysia Zalewski

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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

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Human Interindividual Variability in Parameters Related to Health Risks, Dale Hattis, Prerna Banati, Robert Goble, and David Burmaster

Faculty Works from 1998

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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

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Environmental Reforms in Poland, Halina Szejnwald Brown, David Angel, and Patrick Derr

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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

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Dynamic Facility Location When the Total Number of Facilities is Uncertain: A Decision Analysis Approach, John Current, Samuel Ratick, and Charles ReVelle

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'Recovered-Memory' Therapy: Profession at a Turning Point, Elizabeth A. Feigon and Joseph De Rivera

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How to Apply the Concept of Sustainability to a Region, Ortwin Renn, Robert Goble, and Hans Kastenholz

Faculty Works from 1997

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Interactive Spatial Decision-Support System for Multiobjective Hazardous Materials Location-Routing Problems, João Coutinho-Rodrigues, John Current, João Climaco, and Samuel Ratick

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Nongovernmental Organizations, Micro-credit, and Empowerment of Women, Jude Fernando

Faculty Works from 1996

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Comparison of contact site cancer potency across dose routes: Case study with epichlorohydrin, Gary Ginsberg, William Pepelko, Robert Goble, and Dale Hattis

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Risk-Based Spatial Decision Support System for Maintenance Dredging of Navigation Channels, Samuel J. Ratick and Holly Morehouse Garriga

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A Regional Concept of Qualitative Growth and Sustainability—Support for a Case Study in the German State of Baden-Württemberg, Ortwinn Renn and Robert Goble

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The Maximum Capture Problem with Uncertainty, D. Serra, S. Ratick, and C. Revelle

Faculty Works from 1995

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Social and Environmental Factors in Lung Cancer Mortality in Post-War Poland, Halina Szejnwal Brown, Robert Goble, and Henryk Kirschner

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A Model to Assess Risk, Equity and Efficiency in Facility Location and Transportation of Hazardous Materials, John Current and Samuel Ratick

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Model for Risk-Based Dredging Decisions, Holly Morehouse Garriga, Samuel J. Ratick, David A. Moser, Wei Du, Leigh Skaggs, Jay R. Lund, and Ron Klimberg

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Tourism Impacts of Three Mile Island and Other Adverse Events: Implications for Lincoln County and Other Rural Counties Bisected by Radioactive Wastes Intended for Yucca Mountain, Jeffery Himmelberger, Mike Baughman, and Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger

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Global Corporate Environmentalism: Theoretical Expectations and Empirical Experience, Jeffery James Himmelberger and Halina Szejnwald Brown

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Risk-Based Decision Support for Dredging the Lower Mississippi River, Jay R. Lund, Vini Vannicola, David A. Moser, Samuel J. Ratick, Atul Celly, and L. Leigh Skaggs

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Composite Graphite Ion Selective Electrode Array Potentiometry for the Detection of Mercury and Other Relevant Ions in Aquatic Systems, Jo Anne Shatkin, Halina Szejnwald Brown, Stuart Licht, and Stuart Licht

Faculty Works from 1994

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The Emotional Motivation of Righteous Behavior, Joseph de Rivera, Elena A. Gerstmann, and Lisa Maisels

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“Some of the Best Soldiers Wear Lipstick”, Cynthia Enloe

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Toward a Pollution Abatement Monitoring Policy: Measurements, Model Mechanics, and Data Requirements, K. E. Haynes, S. Ratick, and J. Cummings-Saxton

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Land, Livestock, and Livelihoods: Changing Dynamics of Gender, Caste, and Ethnicity in a Nepalese Village, Barbara Thomas-Slayter and Nina Bhatt

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Structural Change, Power Politics, and Community Organizations in Africa: Challenging the Patterns, Puzzles and Paradoxes, Barbara P. Thomas-Slayter

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Essential Connections: Linking Gender to Effective Natural Resource Management and Sustainable Development, Barbara Thomas-Slayter and Dianne Rocheleau

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Ecology, Community Organization and Gender (ECOGEN) Project Overview, Barbara Thomas‐Slayter and Dianne Rocheleau

Faculty Works from 1993

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Development-Environment Interactions in the Export of Hazardous Technologies. A Comparative Study of Three Multinational Affiliates in Developing Countries, Halina Szejnwald Brown, Jeffrey J. Himmelberger, and Allen L. White

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Environmental Decision Models: U.S. Experience and A New Approach to Pollution Management, Kingsley E. Haynes, Samuel Ratick, William M. Bowen, and James Cummings-Saxton

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Tourist Visitation Impacts of the Accident at Three Mile Island, Jeffery Himmelberger, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, and Mike Baughman

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Exposure to Tetrachloroethylene Via Contaminated Drinking Water Pipes in Massachusetts: A Predictive Model, Thomas Webler and Halna Szejnwald Brown

Faculty Works from 1992

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Introduction: Facility Location Modeling, John Current and Samuel Ratick

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Negotiated Compensation for Solid‐Waste Disposal Facility Siting: An Analysis of the Wisconsin Experience, Leslie A. Nieves, Jeffery J. Himmelberger, Samuel J. Ratick, and Allen L. White

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Development of a Reliability Based Dynamic Dredging Decision Model, Samuel J. Ratick, Wei Du, and David A. Moser

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Politics, Class, and Gender in African Resource Management: The Case of Rural Kenya, Barbara Thomas-Slayter

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Corporate Environmentalism in Developing Countries: A Tale of Three Multinationals, A. L. White, H. S. Brown, and J. J. Himmelberger

Faculty Works from 1991

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La psicología de la paz en los Estados Unidos, Joseph De Rivera

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Lost Ideas: The Lewin Which was Not Assimilated into America, Joseph De Rivera

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Expected Values for Projected Cancer Risks from Putative Genetically Acting Agents, Dale Hattis and Robert Goble

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Compensation for Risks: Host Community Benefits in Siting Locally Unwanted Facilities, Jeffery J. Himmelberger, Samuel J. Ratick, and Allen L. White

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Modeling U.S. Coal Export Planning Decisions, Michael Kuby, Samuel Ratick, and Jeffrey Osleeb

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Doing the Right Thing: In Exporting Hazardous Technologies, Ortwin Renn, Halina S. Brown, and Allen L. White

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Pharmacokinetics of the Dermal Route of Exposure to Volatile Organic Chemicals in Water: A Computer Simulation Model, Jo Anne Shatkin and Halina Szejnwald Brown

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Traditional Village Institutions in Environmental Management: Erosion Control in Katheka, Kenya, Barbara Thomas-Slayter, C. Kabutha, and R. Ford