A E Luloff
Biographic Data
| ID | 102423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A E Luloff |
| GIVEN NAMES | A E |
| FAMILY NAME | Luloff |
| SIGNATURE | LULOFF A E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 70 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 539 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 70 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Teaching Public Engagement in Research Using the Engagement Tool
The objective of this commentary is to provide educators with suggestions for courses that focus on publicly engaged research. We present an engagement tool that can be used to contrast traditional versus engaged approaches to research and help students understand the role of the researcher in public engagement and develop their position with respect to publicly engaged research
Close, but not too close
Informing environmental problems through field analysis
The physical and social environments influence individual values, perceptions, and actions from which community emerges. These relationships outline a multi-level transdisciplinary framework of interactions that inform human behavior. This article seeks to accomplish three things: (1) to construct a rationale for unifying commonalities among field-based concepts of behavior, landscape, and community; (2) to describe a transdisciplinary field theo…
Correlates of perceived safe uses of hydraulic fracturing wastewater
Unconventional risks
Making Decisions About Forestland Succession
Decision-making processes that private forest landowners (PFLs) engage when planning for their forestland’s future are not well understood. The forest ecosystem and the people who depend on its services face several critical challenges, including how to sustainably manage an increasingly parcelized forest. The Theory of Planned Behavior has been used to illuminate connections among constructs informing PFL behavior, but fails to adequately captur…
Making Sense of “Making Sense
Community as a mechanism for transcending wellbeing at the individual, social, and ecological levels
Community wellbeing, from a field theoretical perspective, derives from the interaction of three core elements reflecting different levels and units of analysis - individual, social, and ecological. These facets of community, and their related concepts, come together in a powerful way to shape relationships, opportunities for agency, and local adaptive capacities that lead to wellbeing. Unfortunately, much of the extant community literature moves…
Tracing Temporal Changes in the Human Dimensions of Forest Insect Disturbance on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
Hydraulic fracturing and the management, disposal, and reuse of frac flowback waters
Toward a Synthesis
To integrate lessons from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Institute of Food and Agriculture–Conservation Effects Assessment Project (NIFA CEAP) program, key informant (KI) interviews were conducted in all 13 project areas. The purpose of these interviews was to supplement technical information about watersheds, their contaminants, modeling, economics, and key findings. We interviewed a wide range of people to develop a systema…
Monitoring Controversial Environmental/Natural Resource Issues
Monitoring public opinion, especially about controversial environmental/natural resource issues, through various survey modes remains an important social science tool used by scholars, advocates, newspaper reporters, and policymakers alike. However, with this use there has been a concomitant decline in response rates. To address this problem, increased use of mixed modes of surveys has occurred. The degree to which results of different modes can …
Revisiting the Origins of and Distinctions Between Natural Resource Sociology and Environmental Sociology
A forum focusing on similarities and differences in environmental sociology and the sociology of natural resources is healthy. Attempts to more adequately understand the relationships between social organization and the natural world need to be informed by reviews and critiques of past and current work by resource/environmental social scientists and the array of theoretical frameworks, research designs, and problem-solving capabilities that are r…
The Emergence, Evolution, and Maturation of Natural Resource Social Science
As is true of all scientific fields, natural resource sociology and the array of allied social science disciplines that jointly address the interplay of human societies and biophysical environments
Introduction
What Do Stakeholders Add to Identification of Conservation Lands
The Highlands Conservation Act of 2004 (H. R. 1964) mandated a comprehensive review of five conservation values throughout Pennsylvania's Highland region. Generally, experts conduct such work and routinely dismiss stakeholder input as unnecessary because the latter lack the level of understanding and knowledge held by those "who really understand the issues." In this article, we compare the lands identified by experts to those identified by stake…
Exploring Contexts of Place
Sense of place is built upon the meanings people create as they experience the places in which they play, work and live. These place meanings can be setting-based, representing actual places of interaction; or they can be activity-based, characterizing places where people recreate. This paper uses a methodological approach based on a quantitative analysis of resident-employed photography to explore these two contexts and their role in the constru…
West Virginia Wildland Fire as Latent Social Discontent
This research explores community perceptions of wildland fire risk in two fire-prone West Virginia counties. We employed community field theory and key informant interviews to observe how the local context, including sociocultural heritage, influenced risk perceptions, and meanings of fire. In contrast with expert risk assessments, residents did not view fire as a probability of harm. Residents’ familiarity with local ecology was important in att…
Wildfire Perception and Community Change
Given increasing political and financial commitments to wildfire preparedness, risk policy demands that risk identification, assessment, and mitigation activities are balanced among diverse resident groups. Essential for this is the understanding of residents' perceptions of wildfire risks. This study compares wildfire-risk perceptions of Pennsylvania residents with those of Minnesotans living in natural-amenity-rich communities. Natural-amenity-…
An Institutional Analysis of Rural Policy in the United States
A managerial approach to community development is becoming quite common in contemporary rural policy in the United States. Central government is finding new ways for guiding decision making through the use of managerial techniques, including performance systems and evaluation tools. Concomitantly, managerial values—like local empowerment and entrepreneurship—are promoted at lower governance levels. This article assesses whether a managerial appro…
Bringing Together Local Culture and Rural Development
The developmental trajectories of communities are routinely explained by reference to economic history, human capital deficits, or the structure of local labour markets. The role of local culture in understanding community development or in interpreting empirical research has received less attention. We believe culture plays an important independent role in shaping community debate and action. Framing community as an interactional field emphasise…
Private Land Access and Deer Management in Three Pennsylvania Counties
Access to private land for hunting is critical for deer management. An understanding of current trends in private land access is important for deer management decisions. Key informant interviews were conducted in three Pennsylvania counties to determine current land access issues. This research focused on deer management issues, landowner concerns, recreational access issues, and proposed solutions for improving access to private lands. In each c…
Deer Hunting on Pennsylvania's Public and Private Lands
Recreational hunting is crucial for controlling white-tailed deer populations. Public land is increasingly important as access to private lands declines. However, differences between public and private land hunters remain unknown. Our study of Pennsylvania hunters revealed differences between private and public land hunters that may pose problems for management. Hunters who only hunted public land had lower harvest rates, especially of antlerless…
Categorizing Deer Hunters by Typologies Useful to Game Managers
Game managers emphasize hunting as the only realistic large-scale management tool currently available to control deer densities. Identifying the characteristics of hunters who place importance on deer hunting as a management tool, view deer damage as significant, or believe that current deer densities are too high could be valuable to game managers. Additionally, identifying demographic and behavioral characteristics of these hunters may allow in…
Where Is “Community” in Community-Based Forestry
Community-based forestry and community-based natural resource management have become increasingly common terms in both the scientific and popular press. However, as with so many other concepts currently in vogue, rarely do studies invoking them incorporate either a grounded theoretical understanding or practical inclusion of the central term: community. Community emerges through communication and interaction among people who care about each other…
Social Landscapes of the Inter-Mountain West
Rural communities have experienced dramatic demographic, social, and economic transformations over the past 30 years. Historically characterized by close links between natural resources and social, cultural, and economic structures, few of today's rural communities remain heavily dependent upon traditional extractive industries like ranching, forestry, and mining. New forms of development linked to natural and cultural amenities, including touris…
Toward an interactional approach to sustainable community development
Natural Resource-Based Communities, Risk, and Disaster
Natural resource-based communities are often theoretically assumed to be vulnerable to the negative effects of environmental and social change. Such communities are also seen as being especially vulnerable to risks and disasters. Disaster research perspectives echo this in their emphasis on environmental and social vulnerability. Also, theories of risk largely fail to illuminate community level experiences. To address this gap, a community-based …
The Association of Outdoor Recreation and Environmental Concern
Building upon earlier studies, two hypotheses concerning the association between participation in outdoor recreational activities and pro-environmental behavior are tested using data collected in a general population survey from a random sample of individuals in four communities in Pennsylvania. The first hypothesis, that there is a positive association between outdoor recreational participation and pro-environmental behavior, received substantia…
Socioeconomic Heterogeneity of Mining-Dependent Counties1
Recent typologies of U.S. counties differentiated by sustenance base suggest that mining-dependent counties are characterized by levels of socioeconomic well-being slightly above national averages. However, striking regional differences in well-being among mining-dependent counties are masked when such counties are considered as a single category. Comparison with nonmetropolitan nonmining-dependent counties in the same states reveals that the dif…
Community Participation in Rapidly Growing Communities in Southern Utah
Amenity-rich locations attract individuals searching for places to recreate, live, or retire. As a result, such areas, many of which are in the Western United States, experience changes related to population in-migration. Past research shows how the extensive in-migration of people with different values and perspectives can contribute to social conflict in affected communities. This study focuses on the relationship of community level indicators …
Urban Residents' Views of Rurality and Contacts with Rural Places1
Little is known about how rural people and places are viewed by the urban majority or the extent to which these images are related to first-hand contact with rurality. Data from a recent mail survey of a sample of people living in Pennsylvania cities suggest that urban people view rural places in positive terms and feel that rural areas and rural lifestyles should be preserved. When asked to consider the desirability of various development strate…
Where Is “Community” in Community-Based Forestry
Community-based forestry and community-based natural resource management have become increasingly common terms in both the scientific and popular press. However, as with so many other concepts currently in vogue, rarely do studies invoking them incorporate either a grounded theoretical understanding or practical inclusion of the central term: community. Community emerges through communication and interaction among people who care about each other…
Community Activeness in Response to Forest Disturbance in Alaska
Community theorists have long grappled with the question of whether or not communities collectively respond to threats. Community, risk, disaster, and natural resource management theories all inform an understanding of community action. Here, a conceptual model of community activeness is empirically tested using survey data from six Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, communities. Data analysis revealed that socioeconomic and biophysical vulnerability, prox…
Profiling Participative Residents in Western Communities
Differences between old-timers and newcomers and their effects on community social dimensions have been the object of much research. These studies have shown how extensive in-migration of people with different socioeconomic backgrounds, values, and perspectives contribute to heightened social conflict in some communities. Popular media accounts and some social science research referred to the conflict emerging from these differences as a culture …
Migration and the Spatial Concentration of Poverty1
Current Population Survey data are used to estimate the effects of migration of the poor and nonpoor on the spatial concentration of poverty among five categories of counties defined by county poverty rates and, separately, among nonmetropolitan high-poverty areas, central city high-poverty areas, and other areas. During the 1981-1984 period studied, migration patterns of both the poor and nonpoor consistently reinforced pre-existing poverty conc…
Exploring rural community agency differences in Ireland and Pennsylvania
Position on Environmental Issues and Engagement in Proenvironmental Behaviors
Using data collected in a general population survey from a random sample of individuals in four communities in Pennsylvania, we tested the following two hypotheses: (1) that differences in sociodemographic characteristics exist among individuals with variant positions on environmental issues; and (2) that individuals with different positions on environmental issues exhibit dissimilar levels of proenvironmental behaviors. Both hypotheses received …
Nimby and the hazardous and toxic waste siting dilemma
Finding ways to appropriately dispose of the various wastes that we generate has become one of our most urgent and difficult public policy problems. Researchers and policymakers alike have increasingly attributed much of the blame for policy siting failures to local not‐in‐my‐backyard (NIMBY) responses. However, this concept, as currently used in the literature, has limited utility because of the absence of conceptual and operational clarity. We …
Building the Sustainable Community
Over the past decade, environmental sustainability has emerged as a prominent theme in the community development literature. In fact, the concept has become a standard feature of most economic and social development plans. Most models of sustainable community development stress the importance of widespread participation in the decision-making process. Unfortunately, community studies document numerous barriers to broad involvement and the high le…
Revisiting the Origins of and Distinctions Between Natural Resource Sociology and Environmental Sociology
A forum focusing on similarities and differences in environmental sociology and the sociology of natural resources is healthy. Attempts to more adequately understand the relationships between social organization and the natural world need to be informed by reviews and critiques of past and current work by resource/environmental social scientists and the array of theoretical frameworks, research designs, and problem-solving capabilities that are r…
Unconventional risks
Bringing Together Local Culture and Rural Development
The developmental trajectories of communities are routinely explained by reference to economic history, human capital deficits, or the structure of local labour markets. The role of local culture in understanding community development or in interpreting empirical research has received less attention. We believe culture plays an important independent role in shaping community debate and action. Framing community as an interactional field emphasise…
Landowner Perceptions of Protecting and Establishing Riparian Forests
While the ecological importance of riparian forests is widely recognized, identifying the best policies for reforesting privately owned stream lands also requires an understanding of societal perceptions. Forty semistructured interviews with riparian landowners in central Pennsylvania revealed a study population driven by competing considerations. On one hand, these landowners expressed a community obligation to consider the downstream consequenc…
Attitudes toward the management of nonindustrial private forest land
Management of the nation's forests has been widely criticized. Such criticisms stem, in part, from the widely held belief that owners and managers of nonindustrial private forests (NIPFs) have a vested economic interest in the resource not shared by the general public. As a result, previous studies of NIPF management have assumed that landowners differ from the general public and hold utilitarian‐oriented values toward the natural environment. Da…
Hydraulic fracturing and the management, disposal, and reuse of frac flowback waters
Exploring Contexts of Place
Sense of place is built upon the meanings people create as they experience the places in which they play, work and live. These place meanings can be setting-based, representing actual places of interaction; or they can be activity-based, characterizing places where people recreate. This paper uses a methodological approach based on a quantitative analysis of resident-employed photography to explore these two contexts and their role in the constru…
Wildfire Perception and Community Change
Given increasing political and financial commitments to wildfire preparedness, risk policy demands that risk identification, assessment, and mitigation activities are balanced among diverse resident groups. Essential for this is the understanding of residents' perceptions of wildfire risks. This study compares wildfire-risk perceptions of Pennsylvania residents with those of Minnesotans living in natural-amenity-rich communities. Natural-amenity-…
Exploring the Meaning of Rural Through Cognitive Maps1
Rural often is viewed as a setting for study rather than an object of study. Often a priori definitions of rural are used; these definitions may bear little resemblance to residents' understanding of the concept. A cognitive mapping experiment to explore the meaning of rural is undertaken in this paper. Results indicate that urban residents could readily identify rural areas on a blank map of Pennsylvania. Their responses to the question varied, …
The Changing Impact of Industry, Household Structure, and Residence on Household Weil-Being1
The changing impact of industry, household structure, and residence on household well-being during the 1980s is examined with data from the Current Population Survey for 1981-1982 and 1990-1991. Findings indicate that household well-being was greatest for those families relying on traditional higher-wage industries (high-wage manufacturing, government, mining). The well-being of families relying on higher-wage services was lower, most likely a co…
Is Community Alive and Well in the Inner City
Social conservatism
The Structure and Impact of Population Redistribution in New England
This book contains eight papers by various authors on population distribution and migration in the New England region of the United States. Topics covered include the revival of nonmetropolitan population growth historical perspectives an analytical framework for migration analysis regional methodology and data collection employment and property ownership migration and social participation motivations for migration and a discriminant analysis of …
Merchant People
American Rural Communities
American Rural Communities
0-8133-1477-1 Rural Communities : Legacy and Change 0-8133-8558-X Sacred Cows and Hot Potatoes : Agrarian Myths and Agricultural Policy
Applied policy relevant research
Attitudes and Bureaucrats
Since the late 1950s and 1960s, New Hampshire has experienced unprecedented growth. During the past two decades, this growth has begun to be felt in the state's North Country, particularly among its many small communities. As a result of developmental pressures in this region, numerous local problems related to the environment and socioeconomic conditions surfaced. The responsibility for meeting the challenges of such growth and development often…
Socioeconomic Heterogeneity of Mining-Dependent Counties1
Recent typologies of U.S. counties differentiated by sustenance base suggest that mining-dependent counties are characterized by levels of socioeconomic well-being slightly above national averages. However, striking regional differences in well-being among mining-dependent counties are masked when such counties are considered as a single category. Comparison with nonmetropolitan nonmining-dependent counties in the same states reveals that the dif…
Attitudes toward the management of nonindustrial private forest land
Management of the nation's forests has been widely criticized. Such criticisms stem, in part, from the widely held belief that owners and managers of nonindustrial private forests (NIPFs) have a vested economic interest in the resource not shared by the general public. As a result, previous studies of NIPF management have assumed that landowners differ from the general public and hold utilitarian‐oriented values toward the natural environment. Da…
Assessing rural tourism efforts in the United States
The value of using multiple methods
Following the lead of Denzin (1970), the authors used a triangulation strategy to develop a framework for assessing the condition of harvested nonindustrial private forests (NIPFs) and information on owners’ forest management knowledge, intentions, and objectives. The purpose of this procedure was the development of protocols to guide field investigators in their conduct of NIPF owner interviews and site evaluations. Two of the three methods, mai…
Homeless Children and Their Families in New Hampshire
Twenty case studies of homeless students and their families in New Hampshire reveal that homelessness is a problem in rural, as well as urban, areas. Homelessness for two-parent families came in the wake of economic reverses, while for singleparent families the precipitating event was family disruption. Homeless schoolchildren were found to suffer serious setbacks both academically and socially, including exhaustion, lack of time and a place to d…
Urban Residents' Views of Rurality and Contacts with Rural Places1
Little is known about how rural people and places are viewed by the urban majority or the extent to which these images are related to first-hand contact with rurality. Data from a recent mail survey of a sample of people living in Pennsylvania cities suggest that urban people view rural places in positive terms and feel that rural areas and rural lifestyles should be preserved. When asked to consider the desirability of various development strate…
Migration and the Spatial Concentration of Poverty1
Current Population Survey data are used to estimate the effects of migration of the poor and nonpoor on the spatial concentration of poverty among five categories of counties defined by county poverty rates and, separately, among nonmetropolitan high-poverty areas, central city high-poverty areas, and other areas. During the 1981-1984 period studied, migration patterns of both the poor and nonpoor consistently reinforced pre-existing poverty conc…
Exploring the Meaning of Rural Through Cognitive Maps1
Rural often is viewed as a setting for study rather than an object of study. Often a priori definitions of rural are used; these definitions may bear little resemblance to residents' understanding of the concept. A cognitive mapping experiment to explore the meaning of rural is undertaken in this paper. Results indicate that urban residents could readily identify rural areas on a blank map of Pennsylvania. Their responses to the question varied, …
The Changing Impact of Industry, Household Structure, and Residence on Household Weil-Being1
The changing impact of industry, household structure, and residence on household well-being during the 1980s is examined with data from the Current Population Survey for 1981-1982 and 1990-1991. Findings indicate that household well-being was greatest for those families relying on traditional higher-wage industries (high-wage manufacturing, government, mining). The well-being of families relying on higher-wage services was lower, most likely a co…
The Influence of Insurance Status and Income on Health Care Use Among the Nonmetropolitan Elderly
The objective of this research is to examine the influence of income and type of insurance coverage on the use of health services among the nonmetropolitan elderly. A model of health service utilization is used as the foundation for examining this issue with data from a telephone survey of a randomly selected sample of residents from four nonmetropolitan counties in Pennsylvania. Results indicated that those elders with Medicaid coverage were les…
Response to Pennsylvania's Agricultural Preservation Programs 1
Agriculture is the leading industry in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. At the same time, encroaching development has pressured prime agricultural land to change uses, a change usually considered irreversible. Some regions of Pennsylvania have used zoning to control and plan for the development of agricultural land, but these decisions have not always been agreed on. In response to conflicts over zoning and calls for more effective restrictions …
Rural community stress, distress, and well-being in Pennsylvania
Women and Leadership in Rural Areas
This study assesses female leadership in rural areas through analysis of interviews with government officials and recognized local leaders. Findings of previous community studies, which suggested that structural characteristics of communities influence their leadership patterns, have been incorporated into this study of gender. Key and action informant data were collected in four areas of rural Pennsylvania which differ in levels of urban presenc…
Women and leadership in rural areas
Nimby and the hazardous and toxic waste siting dilemma
Finding ways to appropriately dispose of the various wastes that we generate has become one of our most urgent and difficult public policy problems. Researchers and policymakers alike have increasingly attributed much of the blame for policy siting failures to local not‐in‐my‐backyard (NIMBY) responses. However, this concept, as currently used in the literature, has limited utility because of the absence of conceptual and operational clarity. We …
The Association of Outdoor Recreation and Environmental Concern
Building upon earlier studies, two hypotheses concerning the association between participation in outdoor recreational activities and pro-environmental behavior are tested using data collected in a general population survey from a random sample of individuals in four communities in Pennsylvania. The first hypothesis, that there is a positive association between outdoor recreational participation and pro-environmental behavior, received substantia…
The Doing of Rural Community Development Research
(1999). The Doing of Rural Community Development Research. Rural Society: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 313-328
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