Henry W Fischer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 200573 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Henry W Fischer |
| NOMBRES | Henry W |
| APELLIDO | Fischer |
| FIRMA | FISCHER H W |
| AFILIACIONES | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7967-1154 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 107 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Synergies between poverty reduction and biodiversity conservation
Advancing biodiversity through poverty solutions
Forwarding forest restoration
Restoring forests can help conserve biodiversity, mitigate climate change and enhance human well‐being. Despite financial and political support for global forest restoration initiatives, projects continue to face persistent challenges and trade‐offs between environmental, climatic and socio‐economic goals. To better understand existing and future challenges and opportunities, we convened a diverse panel of 25 international experts from academia, …
Forest restoration for environment and well-being is associated with empowered local governance over long time horizons
Forest restoration is widely recognized as a global priority to sequester carbon, conserve biodiversity, and support the livelihoods of rural and indigenous people. Contemporary interventions often target landscapes with a substantial human presence, and they regularly call for stakeholder participation during project implementation. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence linking local involvement with multiple forest benefits over long t…
Decentering climate in vulnerability analysis
Current discussions of vulnerability tend to focus on avoiding loss and harm, especially from climate-related stressors. • We reframe vulnerability as an experientially grounded, cross-cutting phenomenon, unfolding across a broader life trajectory. • Vulnerability is more than the risk of loss and harm but is experienced in relation to the lives people wish to build and what they value. • This understanding recognizes people’s sense of self, emot…
Restoring landscapes to build common futures
Ecosystem restoration is crucial for reversing environmental degradation, yet contemporary approaches often frame restoration as a technical, science-driven endeavour, neglecting the social and political processes through which communities mobilise for landscape revitalisation. This paper develops the concept of restorative commoning, which we define as a bottom-up creative process in which communities envision and enact new futures for their lan…
Unveiling global narratives of restoration policy
Using machine learning to uncover synergies between forest restoration and livelihood support in the Himalayas
In recent years, governments and international organizations have initiated numerous large-scale tree planting projects with the dual goals of restoring landscapes and supporting rural livelihoods. However, there remains a need for greater knowledge of drivers and conditions that enable positive social and environmental outcomes over the long term. In this study, we used interpretable machine learning (IML) to explore win–win and win–lose outcome…
Why is farming important for rural livelihood security in the global south? Covid-19 and changing rural livelihoods in Nepal's mid-hills
Over the last three decades, Nepal has experienced a rapid transition in rural livelihoods, from largely subsistence farming to more diversified off-farm employment and remittances. Despite this, subsistence farming continues to be a central part of rural production. Why does farming persist in the face of other, more remunerative, off-farm employment options? In this article we argue that subsistence food production continues to be important for…
Recognizing the equity implications of restoration priority maps
A growing number of studies seek to identify global priority areas for conservation and restoration. These studies often produce maps that highlight the benefits of concentrating such activity in the tropics. However, the potential equity implications of using these prioritization exercises to guide global policy are less often explored and articulated. We highlight those equity issues by examining a widely publicized restoration priority map as …
The “Corona Warriors”? Community health workers in the governance of India's Covid-19 response
India's nearly 1-million strong band of quasi-volunteer accredited social health activists (ASHAs) have been key actors in government efforts to control COVID-19. Utilizing a nationalist rhetoric of war, ASHAs were swiftly mobilized by the government in March 2020 as 'COVID warriors' engaged in tracking illness, disseminating information, and caring for quarantined individuals. The speed at which ASHAs were mobilized into mentally and physically …
Rural institutions, social networks, and self-organized adaptation to climate change
Support for rural livelihoods to adapt to climate change is a top policy priority around the world. We advance the concept of ‘self-organized adaptation’ to analyze how long-term pathways of transformation come about as the organic outcome of farmers’ incremental and continuous responses to climate and other challenges. Through an analysis of four decades’ responses to changing climate conditions in an agricultural system of the Indian Himalayas,…
Limited effects of tree planting on forest canopy cover and rural livelihoods in Northern India
How politics shapes the outcomes of forest carbon finance
Forest livelihoods and a “green recovery” from the Covid-19 pandemic
Decentralization and the governance of climate adaptation
Dark and bright spots in the shadow of the pandemic
The global COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented disruption to lives and livelihoods around the world. These disruptions have brought into sharp focus experiences of vulnerability but also, at times, evidence of resilience as people and institutions gear up to respond to the crisis. Drawing on intensive qualitative enquiry in 16 villages of Himalayan India and Nepal, this paper documents both dark and bright spots from the early days of the…
The local governance of Covid-19
Countries around the world have undertaken a wide range of strategies to halt the spread of COVID-19 and control the economic fallout left in its wake. Rural areas of developing countries pose particular difficulties for developing and implementing effective responses owing to underdeveloped health infrastructure, uneven state capacity for infection control, and endemic poverty. This paper makes the case for the critical role of local governance …
The Gendered Impacts of Covid-19 amid Agrarian Distress
COVID-19 and its associated disease control measures have greatly altered everyday life. The burden of these challenges has fallen disproportionately on women. Drawing on qualitative inquiry in agrarian north India and Nepal, this research note analyzes how South Asian COVID-19 lockdowns have affected women's labor responsibilities in sometimes surprising ways. We find increased responsibilities for caregiving within the household, substantial st…
Electricity-Centered Clientelism and the Contradictions of Private Solar Microgrids in India
Most discussions about solar microgrids focus on sustainable energy and development goals and the technical aspects of electricity generation, storage, transmission, and distribution. Very few explicitly examine the ways in which their introduction upsets and reshapes entrenched practices of electoral politics and citizen claim-making around electricity access and development. In India, as in many parts of the world, electricity represents the mo…
Reshaping the public domain
Harnessing the State
Despite a proliferation of programs and policies aimed at promoting local resource management, we still have limited knowledge of the conditions under which state interventions can be a supportive force in everyday aspects of common pool resource governance. This article explores growing state involvement in community-managed irrigation systems of the Kangra District of Himachal Pradesh, India. Here, agriculture is dependent on water channeled fr…
Can more drought resistant crops promote more climate secure agriculture? Prospects and challenges of millet cultivation in Ananthapur, Andhra Pradesh
Beyond Participation and Accountability
Assets, livelihoods, and the 'profile approach' for analysis of differentiated social vulnerability in the context of climate change
It is commonly acknowledged that the world's rural poor are vulnerable to loss and suffering from global climatic change, but there remains disagreement about how vulnerability should be defined and measured. In this paper, we advance the "profile approach" to vulnerability analysis, illustrated through a cluster analysis of livelihoods and assets of 521 households in India. Our approach focuses on household differentiation as a means to tease ap…
The local governance of Covid-19
Countries around the world have undertaken a wide range of strategies to halt the spread of COVID-19 and control the economic fallout left in its wake. Rural areas of developing countries pose particular difficulties for developing and implementing effective responses owing to underdeveloped health infrastructure, uneven state capacity for infection control, and endemic poverty. This paper makes the case for the critical role of local governance …
Beyond Participation and Accountability
Reshaping the public domain
The Gendered Impacts of Covid-19 amid Agrarian Distress
COVID-19 and its associated disease control measures have greatly altered everyday life. The burden of these challenges has fallen disproportionately on women. Drawing on qualitative inquiry in agrarian north India and Nepal, this research note analyzes how South Asian COVID-19 lockdowns have affected women's labor responsibilities in sometimes surprising ways. We find increased responsibilities for caregiving within the household, substantial st…
Limited effects of tree planting on forest canopy cover and rural livelihoods in Northern India
Dark and bright spots in the shadow of the pandemic
The global COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented disruption to lives and livelihoods around the world. These disruptions have brought into sharp focus experiences of vulnerability but also, at times, evidence of resilience as people and institutions gear up to respond to the crisis. Drawing on intensive qualitative enquiry in 16 villages of Himalayan India and Nepal, this paper documents both dark and bright spots from the early days of the…
Decentralization and the governance of climate adaptation
Forest livelihoods and a “green recovery” from the Covid-19 pandemic
Electricity-Centered Clientelism and the Contradictions of Private Solar Microgrids in India
Most discussions about solar microgrids focus on sustainable energy and development goals and the technical aspects of electricity generation, storage, transmission, and distribution. Very few explicitly examine the ways in which their introduction upsets and reshapes entrenched practices of electoral politics and citizen claim-making around electricity access and development. In India, as in many parts of the world, electricity represents the mo…
Harnessing the State
Despite a proliferation of programs and policies aimed at promoting local resource management, we still have limited knowledge of the conditions under which state interventions can be a supportive force in everyday aspects of common pool resource governance. This article explores growing state involvement in community-managed irrigation systems of the Kangra District of Himachal Pradesh, India. Here, agriculture is dependent on water channeled fr…
Teaching Statistics from the User's Perspective
L'A. presente son experience en ce qui concerne l'enseignement des statistiques a l'Universite de Pennsylvanie aux Etats-Unis. Il pose le probleme de la nature des connaissances que l'on doit inculquer aux etudiants. Il souligne la necessite de leur offrir une formation qui leur procure des competences qui leur permettront de se preparer a la conduite de travaux de recherche dans les niveaux universitaires plus eleves. Il montre d'une part l'inte…
How politics shapes the outcomes of forest carbon finance
Decentering climate in vulnerability analysis
Current discussions of vulnerability tend to focus on avoiding loss and harm, especially from climate-related stressors. • We reframe vulnerability as an experientially grounded, cross-cutting phenomenon, unfolding across a broader life trajectory. • Vulnerability is more than the risk of loss and harm but is experienced in relation to the lives people wish to build and what they value. • This understanding recognizes people’s sense of self, emot…
Why is farming important for rural livelihood security in the global south? Covid-19 and changing rural livelihoods in Nepal's mid-hills
Over the last three decades, Nepal has experienced a rapid transition in rural livelihoods, from largely subsistence farming to more diversified off-farm employment and remittances. Despite this, subsistence farming continues to be a central part of rural production. Why does farming persist in the face of other, more remunerative, off-farm employment options? In this article we argue that subsistence food production continues to be important for…
Assets, livelihoods, and the 'profile approach' for analysis of differentiated social vulnerability in the context of climate change
It is commonly acknowledged that the world's rural poor are vulnerable to loss and suffering from global climatic change, but there remains disagreement about how vulnerability should be defined and measured. In this paper, we advance the "profile approach" to vulnerability analysis, illustrated through a cluster analysis of livelihoods and assets of 521 households in India. Our approach focuses on household differentiation as a means to tease ap…
Environmental citizenship, gender, and the emergence of a new conservation politics
How to Say No to a Rapist and Survive
Local Offices of Emergency Preparedness (Lema) Belief inDisaster Mythology
The local emergency management directors ( n =54) from a midwestern state (USA) were surveyed to determine how accurately they understood behavioural response to disaster, which disaster myths they most often believed, and if education, disaster experience, and EMS work experiences were associated with a more accurate understanding of the behavioural response problems commonly encountered during a disaster. The respondents performed better on a d…
Emergency Operating Centre Response to Media Blame Assignation
A three‐person field team devoted four days to gathering data in Andover, Kansas, USA, after a tornado devastated the Golden Spur Mobile Home Park on 26 April 1991. They sought to assess the extent to which the media′s reporting of the local emergency management team′s response to the disaster influenced the team′s subsequent decisions. The researchers functioned as participant observers in the emergency operating centre (EOC), informally intervi…
Evacuation behaviour
Evacuation is commonly used to mitigate the ill effects of a variety of disaster agents. It is important that authorities gain an accurate understanding of the circumstances under which citizens will evacuate. Tests the efficacy of evacuation message clarity and frequency, authority type, the accuracy of past warnings, and the impact of the presence of children in the home as viable variables in effecting an evacuation response. Finds the evacuat…
Response to Disaster
Reducing seismic vulnerability in low to moderate risk areas
Argues that, while the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (USA) is found to be a low to moderate risk area in terms of seismic vulnerability, it is vulnerable to future episodes which could be quite threatening to a sizeable population. Degree of seismic vulnerability varies across the Commonwealth. Pursuant to assessing Pennsylvania’s earthquake preparedness, the Commonwealth’s various state agencies ( n = 12) and the campuses comprising Pennsylvania’…
Teaching Statistics from the User's Perspective
L'A. presente son experience en ce qui concerne l'enseignement des statistiques a l'Universite de Pennsylvanie aux Etats-Unis. Il pose le probleme de la nature des connaissances que l'on doit inculquer aux etudiants. Il souligne la necessite de leur offrir une formation qui leur procure des competences qui leur permettront de se preparer a la conduite de travaux de recherche dans les niveaux universitaires plus eleves. Il montre d'une part l'inte…
The Sociologist's Statistical Tools
This practical, hands-on guide is designed especially for the social sciences and those interested in identifying and explaining behavior patterns. It trains the beginner to use SPSS Windows to apply the basic statistical procedures used in social sciences. Combined are a conversational writing style (to overcome the usual fear of statistics) with basic training in data analysis and reporting. As a user-friendly guide, it is designed to help the …
The role of the new information technologies in emergency mitigation, planning, response and recovery
Multimedia, CD‐ROM, DVD, Internet, Web Sites and e‐mail are all part of a constantly changing, emerging array of the new information technologies which are being utilized in public education and are increasingly being applied to emergency planning and training activities to enhance emergency preparedness. Illustrations are presented which demonstrate the utility of multimedia, CD‐ROM, and Internet applications to this process. These technologies …
Dimensions of biological terrorism
The emergence of biological weapons of mass destruction as likely terrorist means of reigning terror on domestic urban populations is outlined. The dimensions of such a possible future catastrophe are described. The lack of preparedness to mitigate and respond to such an event is noted and it is argued that the disaster research literature should be consulted as a guide to help develop effective mitigation and response plans
Mitigation and response planning in a bio‐terrorist attack
With the emergence of biological weapons of mass destruction as potential tools of terrorism, Presidential Decision Directive 39 initiated US plans to enhance mitigation and response activity. Anecdotal information suggests many of the likely behavioral and organizational response challenges are not being addressed. The current paper applies the disaster research literature to identify the likely behavioral and organizational response challenges …
Terrorism and 11 September 2001
A recent question from the research literature is addressed: to what extent does the behavioral response to the natural and technological disaster model apply to terrorist events involving a weapon of mass destruction (WMD)? Earlier work argued that the literature is applicable. Anecdotal evidence and preliminary content analysis findings from the aftermath of the terrorist attack of 11 September 2001 demonstrate the salience of the model to terr…
The danger in over‐reacting to terrorism
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to extend the earlier application of the behavioral response model which analyzed the behavioral response to September 11, 2001, to analyzing the organizational response of the US Federal Government during the ensuing years
Response to Disaster
Response to Disaster combines the original research of author Henry W. Fischer with the literature used today to describe behavioral and organizational challenges commonly experienced before, during, and after disasters. Actual problems are presented and compared to those often misperceived to occur, know as disaster mythology. Fisher examines case studies conducted during the post-impact and long-term recovery periods of major and minor disaster…
Environmental citizenship, gender, and the emergence of a new conservation politics
Can more drought resistant crops promote more climate secure agriculture? Prospects and challenges of millet cultivation in Ananthapur, Andhra Pradesh
Beyond Participation and Accountability
Assets, livelihoods, and the 'profile approach' for analysis of differentiated social vulnerability in the context of climate change
It is commonly acknowledged that the world's rural poor are vulnerable to loss and suffering from global climatic change, but there remains disagreement about how vulnerability should be defined and measured. In this paper, we advance the "profile approach" to vulnerability analysis, illustrated through a cluster analysis of livelihoods and assets of 521 households in India. Our approach focuses on household differentiation as a means to tease ap…
Harnessing the State
Despite a proliferation of programs and policies aimed at promoting local resource management, we still have limited knowledge of the conditions under which state interventions can be a supportive force in everyday aspects of common pool resource governance. This article explores growing state involvement in community-managed irrigation systems of the Kangra District of Himachal Pradesh, India. Here, agriculture is dependent on water channeled fr…
Reshaping the public domain
Electricity-Centered Clientelism and the Contradictions of Private Solar Microgrids in India
Most discussions about solar microgrids focus on sustainable energy and development goals and the technical aspects of electricity generation, storage, transmission, and distribution. Very few explicitly examine the ways in which their introduction upsets and reshapes entrenched practices of electoral politics and citizen claim-making around electricity access and development. In India, as in many parts of the world, electricity represents the mo…
The local governance of Covid-19
Countries around the world have undertaken a wide range of strategies to halt the spread of COVID-19 and control the economic fallout left in its wake. Rural areas of developing countries pose particular difficulties for developing and implementing effective responses owing to underdeveloped health infrastructure, uneven state capacity for infection control, and endemic poverty. This paper makes the case for the critical role of local governance …
The Gendered Impacts of Covid-19 amid Agrarian Distress
COVID-19 and its associated disease control measures have greatly altered everyday life. The burden of these challenges has fallen disproportionately on women. Drawing on qualitative inquiry in agrarian north India and Nepal, this research note analyzes how South Asian COVID-19 lockdowns have affected women's labor responsibilities in sometimes surprising ways. We find increased responsibilities for caregiving within the household, substantial st…
Rural institutions, social networks, and self-organized adaptation to climate change
Support for rural livelihoods to adapt to climate change is a top policy priority around the world. We advance the concept of ‘self-organized adaptation’ to analyze how long-term pathways of transformation come about as the organic outcome of farmers’ incremental and continuous responses to climate and other challenges. Through an analysis of four decades’ responses to changing climate conditions in an agricultural system of the Indian Himalayas,…
Limited effects of tree planting on forest canopy cover and rural livelihoods in Northern India
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