Since its beginning in 1987, researchers and policymakers have touted the US Environmental Protection Agency National Estuary program (NEP) as one of the leading examples of collaborative institutions designed to resolve conflict and build cooperation at the watershed level. Using the NEP as an example, I summarize the advantages and disadvantages of collaborative institutions. Using data gathe...

Mediation is a type of third party intervention in environmental and other kinds of disputes. Its characteristics – voluntary participation and agreement, confidentiality of exchanges among parties, the search for mutually satisfactory solutions – are well suited for the multi-party, complex context of environmental conflicts. Mediation is often used concurrently with other modes of conflict ma...

Do parental marital conflict and dissolution influence the risk trajectory of children's physical health risk? This paper reviews evidence addressing this question in the context of understanding how early environmental adversities may trigger a succession of risks that lead to poor health in childhood and greater risk for chronic health problems in adulthood. We first review existing evidence ...

this paper examines factors that predispose pastoralist women to social and environmental vulnerability and how the women cope with their livelihoods when their husbands relocate with cattle during dry season. the paper adopts a case study research design to select kwara state of nigeria where focus groups discussions and interviews were held to elicit information. it was found that food insecu...

This research was designed to answer three specific questions about the conflict behavior of nations: (1) What are the dinenslons of variation 1r environmental inputs to nations from the international conflict system? (2) To what degree is a nation's conflict activity a response to these conflict stimuli from the environment? (3) Which characteristics of nations explain deviations from a simple...

In the environmental field, modeling plays a critical role in connecting current data and knowledge with predictions of future events and environmental states. Environmental problems are quite challenging to solve because of the complex relationships among many contributing factors, both natural and man-made. Moreover, these problems need to be addressed not only by environmental engineers and ...

This paper critically examines the literature on the interaction between population, the environment, and development. It posits that population pressure and resource scarcities are unfairly blamed for internal conflicts in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Internal conflicts are, in fact, affected by underlying economic and political causes (international companies, development assistance age...

An environmental conflict between a transnational mining corporation and a rural population in Northern Peru was studied in depth. Interviews with the stakeholders and a survey of the population were carried out in order to characterise the conflict about a gold mining project, in terms of perception of environmental risks, preferred decision-making mechanism, alternative solutions, confidence ...

Environmental decisions are difficult because of complex physical, technological components, economic and social influences and impacts. The complexity of the physical and technological aspect led to the development of many simulation models and decision support systems including spatial decision support and geographic information systems augmented with decision support components. Lack of mech...

Numerous researchers have examined gender differences in marital quality, with mixed results. In this study, the authors further this investigation by looking for genetic and environmental sources of variation in marital quality. The 1st aim of the study was to replicate previous findings of genetic and nonshared environmental influences on marital quality. The 2nd was to explore the etiology o...