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Spring Quarter 2001 Course

INSTRUCTOR'S EMAIL
Robert E. Ford
Robert Gardner

Summer Session 2003
STUDENT NAME EMAIL SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH PAPER - theme/topic problem area or social issue
SUMMARY BRIEFS (Mini-papers) - "school/theory" writers/thinkers
Leslie, Patricia

pleslie05g@univ.llu.edu
urban planning and child welfare???
  1. human ecology
  2. envir ethics and entitlement & justice
Jenkins, Agnes

ajenkins03g@univ.llu.edu
How the concept of child and family relate to environmental concepts in place and time.....

Anyway, the idea of how the institutions define 'home' might inform my interest in how those institutions define child maltreatment...

child maltreatment indicators: paternal unemployment, housing, over crowding, car ownership
  1. Social ecology
  2. Environmental
    Justice
Lynn, Terry

tlynn03g@univ.llu.edu

  1. cultural political ecol,
  2. biosocial aspects emigrant Chinese cancer
Alenkin, Nikola

nalenkin04g@univ.llu.edu
Skid row and social policy ?? & homelessness ?? demographics
  1. Malthusian theory, population,
  2. homelessness  ??
Lambson, Julia

jlambson03g@univ.llu.edu
Children in poverty environments and their experience of family violence.
  1. A subfield in social ecology that would address my interest in families and children in the context of poverty.
  2. Environmental psychology: The effect of poverty conditions on family relationships, especially family violence.
Long, Mary

mlong05g@univ.llu.edu
chronically mentally ill  ??

  1. environmental and social ecology 
  2. ecofeminism, 
Flores, Brenda

bflores03g@univ.llu.edu
Role of socio-cultural value systems and society's practice in determining social and economic organization and population change. I would focus on the distribution of population characteristics across and within particular communities, the role of institutions and institutional arrangements in the formation and distribution of these characteristics, and the effect of population change (or lack of change) from these institutions and institutional arrangements.
  1. Social ecology
  2. environmental justice or the spatial arena
Lindsey, Vi

vlindsey@univ.llu.edu
social services law enforcement and children protection issues
  1. environmental justice, 
  2. social ecology 
Freeman, Kim

kfreeman@univ.llu.edu
Obesity as a national and global social policy issue and problem and linkages to legal, institutional, scientific, ecological, and political systems ??
  1. Deep Ecology, in particular the Green Movement
  2. Global Environmental Change and food production from a more medical scientific perspective 
Robert Gardner

rgardner@univ.llu.edu
central role of ecology in the early sociology of poverty and welfare policy.
??
Christopher ("seabob")

 

... 'abstract masculinity', the indirect power of men, vs the direct power of women....
  1. Social ecology
  2. ecofeminism

Spring Quarter 2001 Course


STUDENT NAME EMAIL SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH PAPER SUMMARY BRIEFS (Mini-papers)
Morgan, Carol Ann Correlation of the physical environment 
with chronic mental illness
1. Environmental justice
2. Effect of physical environment on people
3. Variety of treatment environments for 
mental illness
4. Cost/benefit analysis of improved 
treatment environments
Neergard, James Otin Sustainable development in developing 
countries
1. Community-based development
2. Policies that support sustainability
3. ??
4. ??
Radak, Timothy Lawrence ?? 1. Impact of animal husbandry/agriculture on: 
a) environment - methane, soil erosion, etc.
b) health - now well-documented increased 
health risks w/commensurate animal product
intake.....
2. Case study on handful of tribes/communities
that practice a plant-based diet....
3. Business and social responsibility - a solution
for Community Redevelopment in the USA?
4. Disease and Diet e.g. a) does diet/dietary 
constituents play a role in Gout, acros the globe?
Sonnentag, Jeffrey Allen What is known concerning sustainably high
productivity farming techniques in rainforests 
and how can they be encouraged?  What are 
the obstacles encountered and  the means of 
overcoming them?
1. What is known about high productivity
rainforest farming? (Historical background)
2. What can be learned from community
efforts/projects to maintain/protect
regions (land)?
3. What Christian ideas might influence society's
interaction with the land in groups or on an
individual basis?
4. What advantages/disadvantages might be
realized by governments/countries and local
communities by a shift in responsibility/decisions
making for environment conditions from high
authorities to individuals?
Sosa, Roland Antoine

Woods, Virginia Diane Primary Prevention of Lifestyle
Preventable Chronic Diseases: 
Implications from Social Ecology
1. What is social ecology? How it evolved, 
history, concepts/ideas
2. Religious/Ethical/Entitlement issues and
primary prevention.
3. Economics and social ecology - how economics
impacts social ecology?


Last Revised: September 28, 2004