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| Living With the Adirondack Forest: Local Perspectives on Land Use Conflicts |
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| "While locals are inherently integral to land use decisions, their story is seldom coherently placed within the context of competing interests. Knott effectively places local perspectives in the Adirondack land use conflict to illustrate the need for participatory approaches to decision-making."--Valerie A. Luzadis, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Attitudes about land use, Catherine Henshaw Knott suggests, may reflect profound differences in class, religion, and life experience, pitting urban Americans who see nature at risk against rural Americans whose lives are dominated by nature's forces. She documents the thoughts and feelings of people whose lives are intimately connected to the forest, including loggers, trappers, craftspeople, and guides, as well as tree farmers and maple syrup producers. After describing the key players in the conflict and chronicling battles and bridge-building between stake-holders, Knott concludes that the participation of local people in decision making is the only process that can shift an increasingly hostile cycle toward resolution. |
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| Review Date: August 6, 2009 |
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This is a great book. Ms. Knott is not only intimately aware of the environmental, socio-economic and cultural conditions associated with the Adirondack Park region, she is also a good storyteller, resulting in both an informative and enjoyable read. As a professional land use planner with over thirty years experience, the issues, variety of stakeholder interests and challenges ring true to my own work. They are both universal and, as in all situations, specific to the area. This is a good book for students and young professionals delving into the complex world of land use planning both in the upstate New York area as well as most anywhere. As with so many good books these days, one wishes that a new chapter would be added, updating what has changed and going back to some of the interesting characters in the book to see if even more wisdom comes with age. I found the following reviews helpful for me and recommend them to anyone wishing other perspectives on this fine book.
Review in journal CHOICE (Oct. 98):
Knott's excellent overview of the issues and perspectives of management and uses of the Adirondack forest draws upon this forest to frame the wider land-use debate taking place across the nation, especially in the Northwest. She explores the conflict that exists wherever logging occurs and the inevitable changing land use patterns that result. She contends that the land-use conflict dialog arises from four differing points of view, depending on the beliefs and experiences of the people involved; these viewpoints are dominated by aesthetics, ecology, land zoning, and local conditions. This anthropological study uses traditional field methods with some unique scientific terminology, but not excessively. Knott conducted some 150 formal interviews as an outside observer; she addresses the question of the human relationship to the ecosystem by exploring and defining the range of attitudes and philosophies held by residents and visitors to the forest, and the contrast between these two general groups. She succeeds at clearly describing the distinction between communities of place and communities of interest and land use, from strict preservation to its exploitation. This book also contributes to the emerging concepts within ecosystem management, using the critical lessons learned in the Adirondack forest as an example. Excellent bibliography; good illustrations; thorough index. General readers; upper-division undergraduates through professionals. (D.L. Richter, Michigan Technological University)
Quote from the long but excellent review in the American Anthropologist, Vol. 101. No. 1, March 1999:
. . . Because of her ability to situate this local case in relevant national and international contexts, and to understand and empathize with stakeholders who can themselves find no common ground for compromise with one another's views, Knott has crafted a wide-ranging case study filled with insights valuable to any citizen activist, social scientist, or resource professional who is involved in similar land-use debates. |
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| Wrongful Conviction: International Perspectives on Miscarriages of Justice |
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| Imperfections in the criminal justice system have long intrigued the general public and worried scholars and legal practitioners. In Wrongful Conviction, criminologists C. Ronald Huff and Martin Killias present an important collection of essays that analyzes cases of injustice across an array of legal systems, with contributors from North America, Europe and Israel. Using this cross-national perspective, the volume offers detailed discussions of specific legal systems while also considering issues that transcend national boundaries. Differences in court procedures are explained as contributors ask what role the respective criminal justice systems play in preventing or generating wrongful convictions. Most importantly, this collection includes a number of well-developed public-policy recommendations intended to reduce the instances of courts punishing innocents. It also offers suggestions for compensating more fairly those who are wrongfully convicted. |
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| Atrocities on Trial: Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Prosecuting War Crimes |
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Since the Nuremberg trials following World War II, there has been considerable debate about the nature and effects of war crimes with regard both to the Nazis and to modern-day perpetrators. What constitutes a “war crime,” and how has the concept changed over time? How do victors and vanquished deal with crimes that have universal as well as national dimensions? How is the historical reality of war crimes related to their judicial treatment? How are perpetrators portrayed during investigations and trials? These timely and provocative essays make use of newly available archival sources and a wide range of case studies to provide in-depth analyses of war crimes within a broad historical framework. The essays are organized into four sections: the history of war-crime trials from Weimar Germany to just after World War II; the sometimes diverging Allied efforts to come to terms with the Nazi concentration camp system; the ability of postwar society to confront war crimes of the past; and the legacy of war-crime trials in the twenty-first century. Atrocities on Trial illuminates a dark and timely subject and helps us to understand the ongoing struggle to hold accountable those who perpetrate crimes against humanity. (20080521) |
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| The War on Terrorism: 21st-Century Perspectives |
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| On September 11, 2001, a small number of desperate men hoping to earn paradise attacked New York and Washington, D.C. Their spectacular acts of destruction concluded America's nearly decade-long vacation from insecurity, known as the "post-Cold War era." As eras go, this one was short and it certainly ended with a bang, not a whimper. The United States, still sole superpower, was now challenged by a bleak new world. Americans do not care for the bleak and do not tolerate it for long. Predictably, national shock soon became righteous anger, coupled to international campaigns against groups and states held responsible for the scourge of terrorism. These were short-term measures that hurt our enemies but did not "fix" the problem.Not long after these events, the Foreign Policy Research Institute organized a new Center on Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Homeland Security. Its purpose was to take a longer term view of the terrorism problem and what might be done about it - not only academic research but also policy suggestions. This book contains a broad selection of the Center's output, including essays on American strategy, homeland security, knowing the enemy, and the military dimension. A notable feature is the discussion of the educational issue: what and how to teach our children about terrorism. |
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| Justice for the Poor Perspectives on Accelerating Access |
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| This book is based on ground level experience from diverse parts of the world, which has shown that legal strategies are indispensable in efforts to protect people from human rights violations, to ensure human security, and to secure rights, civil, political, socio-economic or cultural. It aims to establish links at the programmatic level between justice programming and poverty alleviation. It explains the international law relating to access to justice and its influence on national laws. It seeks to elaborate a methodology towards identifying and developing the normative basis of legal and judicial reform in the various national arenas. It addresses crucial questions: What are the most appropriate, practical, and effective strategies for securing access to justice for the poor? What level of interplay exists between poverty, good governance, and accountability in the realization of the Millennium Development Goals and in ensuring participation and non-discrimination in developmental decision-making geared towards these goals? The book clarifies conceptual issues relating to justice from the perspective of the poor and the marginalized. It examines judicial reform initiatives and critically appraises the institutionalization of strategies of ensuring access to justice by the poor. The book, centered on the view that access to justice is not charity, but rather a matter of right between rights-holders and duty-bearers, is designed to be of practical value to developmental practitioners. It includes practical recommendations for development and justice programming. It will be a useful companion to the UNDP Practice Note on Access to Justice, which focuses specifically on the concerns for the poor and vulnerable groups. |
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| Biobehavioral Perspectives on Criminology (The Wadsworth Series in Criminological Theory) |
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| Diana Fishbein, one of the leading scholars and researchers in this field, offers the first comprehensive overview of the major research on interactions between genetic, biological, physiological, psychological, social, and environmental factors influencing criminal behavior. |
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Much-needed overview
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| Review Date: July 26, 2001 |
| Reviewer: Richard P. Wiebe, Providence, RI USA |
| This book provides a much-needed overview of the "biobehavioral" perspective in the study of crime. As the author points out, mainstream criminology relies on sociological theories to "explain" crime, but cannot explain why individuals in identical circumstances nonetheless behave differently. The biobehavioral perspective, compatible with or identical to the biosocial perspective and behavioral ecology, acknowledges the interrelatedness of nature and nurture and gives causal priority to neither. Genes bias, but do not determine, behavior, and the expression of any gene depends upon the environment in which it develops. The biological underpinnings of antisocial behavior, drawn from many recent and sophisticated studies from psychology, behavior genetics, psychobiology, cognitive sciences, and related fields, interact with family, social and other environmental variables to create both psychological and sociological phenomena, including crime and delinquency. This should come as no surprise to anyone who has interactied with children, or tried to change their own behavior while accounting for their own traits. However, much of the biology in this book will be new to readers of mainstream criminology and criminal justice texts, which present the "biological" perspective as an amalgam of Lombroso's discredited claims that criminals are evolutionary throwbacks to more primitive times, and theories such as that involving XYY chromosome mutation that try (and mainly fail) to explain the behavior of a few select offenders. This is an important book for students of crime, as it supplements, but does not supplant, the sociological perspective that dominates criminology. It is short. It can be used in conjunction with a mainstream text or as the basis for a course in the biology or psychology of crime, or can be read on its own by anyone interested in crime or human behavior generally. Two cautions - it is not written in the simple language of many undergraduate textbooks, and is also a bit expensive. |
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| European Union Discrimination Law: Comparative perspectives on multidimensional equality law |
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EU equality law is multidimensional in being based on different rationales and concepts. Consequently, the concept of discrimination has become fragmented, with different instruments envisaging different scopes of protection. This raises questions as to the ability of EU law to address the situation of persons excluded on a number of grounds. This edited collection addresses the increasing complexity of European Equality Law from jurisprudential, sociological and political science perspectives. Internationally renowned researchers from Scandinavian, Continental and Central European countries and Britain analyse consequences of multiplying discrimination grounds within EU equality law, considering its multidimensionality and intersectionality. The contributors to the volume theorise the move from formal to substantive equality law and its interrelation to new forms of governance, demonstrating the specific combination of non-discrimination law with welfare state models which reveal the global implications of the European Union. The book will be of interest to academics and policy makers all over the world, in particular to those researching and studying law, political sciences and sociology with an interest in human rights, non discrimination law, contract and employment law or European studies. |
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