Mark J Stern
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 82131 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mark J Stern |
| NOMBRES | Mark J |
| APELLIDO | Stern |
| FIRMA | STERN M J |
| AFILIACIONES | Virginia Tech |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0294-8941 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 97 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 419 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 97 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Thinking Within and Beyond Site Boundaries
Climate adaptation as a team process
Place-based climate adaptation workshops are an increasingly common approach to advance collective efforts to cope with the effects of climate change. Despite their increasing prevalence, uncertainty remains about effective and ineffective elements of these processes. We conducted a comparative case study across 30 communities in which workshops took place in the United States between 2017 and 2020 to identify which workshop characteristics were …
Enabling factors and constraints for advancing justice through climate adaptation
Recent reviews of climate adaptation plans have focused on how these documents consider social justice, with little follow-up during implementation. To understand how US communities are advancing justice during implementation, we interviewed staff from 25 municipalities that published a recent climate plan. We conceptualized social justice as recognitional, distributional, and procedural justice. All interviewees acknowledged certain groups’ heig…
Learning for collaborative action
Communities facing complex social and environmental challenges may benefit from opportunities for collaborative learning. Place-based climate adaptation workshops, which help stakeholders to incorporate climate projections into site-specific adaptation strategies, are one space where learning can occur. We studied learning in eight facilitated climate adaptation workshops held in-person (n = 2) and online (n = 6) in the United States between 2021…
Lessons learned from a collective evaluation and community of practice focused on evidence-based learning
How Trust Manifests in a Natural Resource Partnership
Trust is essential for successful environmental governance, but more research is needed to understand how trust ecology dynamics interact to influence partnership success. We applied the trust ecology framework to partnerships between federal agencies and non-governmental organizations focused on outdoor recreation management. Data were collected from U.S. agency personnel and nonprofit organizations engaged in partnerships to understand partners…
Principles for better environmental education field trips for early adolescent youth in the United States
Which approaches lead to better outcomes for participants in environmental education (EE) field trips? This manuscript builds upon previous large-sample quantitative research that identified effective elements of single-day EE field trip programs for early adolescent youth across the USA. In this mixed-methods study, we observed 87 EE-focused school field trips in the USA and then surveyed youth participants immediately afterwards. We used the st…
Unequal considerations of justice in municipal adaptation planning
Climate adaptation planning is increasingly approached locally through a social justice lens to ensure the needs of the most vulnerable are addressed. This study aims to identify trends in how recognitional, distributional, and procedural justice are considered within climate adaptation plans over time and across socio-demographic contexts. We coded these forms of justice in 101 climate adaptation plans and related documents published in the Unit…
Understanding how justice is considered in climate adaptation approaches
Despite a growing focus on climate justice, prior research has revealed scant details about how marginalised groups have been engaged in local climate adaptation processes. This study aims to understand how justice is considered in these processes through a qualitative review of climate adaptation plans and related documents from US municipalities. We reviewed 101 plans published between 2010 and 2021 using the three-dimensional framework of reco…
Appropriateness and use of civic engagement, advocacy, and behavior change techniques in environmental education across the United States
Recent research suggests that many environmental education (EE) programs for youth in the United States focus on meeting educational standards rather than using civic engagement and advocacy techniques to promote environmental literacy. We distributed a survey to members of several EE organizations to identify which civic engagement, advocacy, and behavior change techniques a sample of EE providers feel are appropriate to use for youth at differe…
Examining early power dynamics within societies to protect children from cruelty
This work examines power dynamics at play in the early child-saving movement as illuminated in the case records and annual reports of the Pennsylvania Society to Protect Children from Cruelty (SPCC) from 1878 to 1881 and triangulated with other historical records. 1 We draw on ecological systems theory and urban ecology to examine social and spatial relationships between child-saving institutions, communities, and individuals and families. The pa…
Benefits of participation in a community of practice focused on evaluation and programmatic improvement for environmental educators
Is naturalness associated with positive learning outcomes during environmental education field trips
Do more natural settings improve students’ learning? We collected surveys immediately following 283 U.S.-based environmental education (EE) field trip programs for youth and used land cover data to examine the relationship between levels of naturalness, defined as the percentage of natural land cover of the EE field trip site, and student learning outcomes. We also examined whether differences in levels of naturalness between students’ day-to-day…
Availability and distribution of environmental education field trip programs for adolescent students in the U.S
What is the availability and distribution of single-day environmental education field trip programs for adolescent students across the U.S.? We assessed the spatial accessibility to EE field trip programs for U.S. schools that serve grades 5-8 (ages 10-14) by (1) compiling a comprehensive national database of 2,930 EE providers that offer field trip programs, (2) identifying 89, 311 middle schools’ locations, student populations, and relevant dem…
Does environmental education work differently across sociopolitical contexts in the United States? Part II. Examining pedagogy in school field trip programs for early adolescent youth across political…
Political polarization in the United States has made many environmental issues strongly partisan, with Democrats largely receptive to environmental messaging and Republicans commonly pitted against it. This phenomenon may have meaningful implications for how environmental education is conducted for people from different sociopolitical contexts. We explored whether certain pedagogical approaches to single-day environmental education field trip pro…
Investigating the influence of preparation and perceived adult support on student attendance to a residential environmental education program
Do preparation and perceived support from guardians and teachers influence student attendance to a residential environmental education (EE) field trip program? To explore this question, pre-visit surveys were administered to racially diverse sixth-grade students at seven schools invited to attend a residential EE program at no cost, namely NorthBay Education in North East, Maryland, USA. Results indicate that while desire to attend the residentia…
Does environmental education work differently across sociopolitical contexts in the United States? Part I. Exploration of outcomes for adolescent youth
In the United States, the two main political parties, Democrats and Republicans, have become increasingly polarized, including with regard to environmental issues. As part of a national study of environmentally focused single-day field trips for early adolescent youth in 2018, we conducted exploratory research to examine how outcomes differed for public school students from different sociopolitical contexts (i.e. predominantly Democratic, Republi…
A culturally responsive evaluation framework and its application in environmental education
Identifying areas and approaches for improving evaluation processes in environmental education in the United States of America
Evaluation has not been used to its fullest potential in environmental education (EE). Pressures from external stakeholders can cause organizations to focus on reporting requirements at the expense of conducting evaluations that support programmatic improvement. Understanding practitioners’ satisfaction with their evaluation processes and the drivers of this satisfaction may reveal strategies for improving evaluation processes in the field of EE.…
Investigating the relationships among students basic psychological needs, engagement, and environmental literacy at a residential environmental education center
We explored the relationship between the fulfillment of students' psychological needs of competence, autonomy, and relatedness; student engagement; and student outcomes related to environmental literacy at a residential environmental education (EE) center. We surveyed diverse groups of middle school students (N = 1,278) following the completion of 80 EE lessons delivered at the NorthBay Adventure Center to assess their self-reported levels of the…
Which approaches are associated with better outcomes? Evidence from a national study of environmental education field trip programs for adolescent youth in the United States
Which approaches are associated with better student learning outcomes in environmental education (EE)? We observed a sample of 299 day-long EE field trip programs occurring across the U.S.A. for youth in grades 5-8 (ages 9 to 14). We tracked the extent of use and quality of implementation of 66 programmatic, educator, and setting characteristics and measured student outcomes immediately after the programs using a retrospective survey. A series of…
A systematic literature review to identify evidence-based principles to improve online environmental education
Many environmental educators shifted to online programs in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a systematic literature review to identify program characteristics from digital environmental education experiences that are associated with one or more elements of environmental literacy. After reviewing 153 candidate articles, 32 articles that evaluated 47 diverse programs met our selection criteria. For each of these programs, we systema…
Exploring the links between teaching approaches and student outcomes at a residential setting
In this case study, we used a mixed-methods approach to identify the characteristics of environmental education (EE) lessons most positively associated with students’ environmental literacy outcomes at one residential EE center in the U.S. Students attending residential EE programs spend multiple days participating in numerous lessons, activities, and experiences, resulting in perhaps more opportunities to enhance students’ knowledge, attitudes, …
Exploring the Role of Community-Level Factors in the Adoption of Conservation Easements
The drivers of individual landowners’ adoption of conservation easements have been well-studied. However, the role and relative predictive power of drivers at the community, rather than individual, scale have not. This study employs diffusion of innovations theory to examine easement adoption in Virginia at the community scale, using geospatial analysis as well as surveys and interviews with easement practitioners. Geospatial modeling results sug…
What organizational factors motivate environmental educators to perform their best
Positive motivation to perform work tasks has been associated with better performance and outcomes in both the organizational and informal education literature. In environmental education (EE), this means that more motivated instructors are likely to provide better programs for their participants. In this exploratory study across 15 states in the USA, grounded in interviews with EE instructors and their supervisors, we examine the most salient fa…
The Multidimensionality of Trust
Despite the long-recognized importance of trust in the natural resources management literature, few have drawn upon the breadth of other disciplines' investigations of trust to inform their work.This article represents an effort to break down the concept of trust into its component parts in an attempt to reorganize trust theory in a robust and practical way for collaborative natural resource management.We describe four forms of trust relevant to …
Cultural Clusters
Cultural districts have attracted increased attention as an urban economic development strategy. Yet for the most part, cities have focused on the agglomeration of cultural assets to increase tourism or lure wary suburbanites downtown. This article examines an alternative use of the arts for community development: cultivating neighborhood cultural clusters with modest concentrations of cultural providers (both nonprofit and commercial), resident …
Environmental education program evaluation in the new millennium
We conducted a systematic literature review of peer-reviewed research studies published between 1999 and 2010 that empirically evaluated the outcomes of environmental education (EE) programs for youth (ages 18 and younger) in an attempt to address the following objectives: (1) to seek reported empirical evidence for what works (or does not) in EE programming and (2) to uncover lessons regarding promising approaches for future EE initiatives and t…
In Care of the State
The Power of Trust
This article presents a model based on empirical research for explaining local opposition toward neighboring protected areas. Analyses of data from 420 semistructured interviews with local residents and nearly 1 year of participant observation around three national parks (Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA, Virgin Islands National Park, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Podocarpus National Park, Ecuador) reveal that common assumptions about local re…
Transformative tourism organizations and glocalization
Transformative tourism
The New African American Inequality
Journal Article The New African American Inequality Get access Michael B. Katz, Michael B. Katz Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark J. Stern, Mark J. Stern professor of social welfare and history Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jamie J. Fader Jamie J. Fader doctoral student in sociology Search for other works by this author …
The Emergence of the Homeless as a Public Problem
Using the model of social problems developed by Herbert Blumer, this article examines the recent public attention directed at homelessness. Based on this analysis, the article places the homeless issue in historical perspective, arguing that it is an element of the recent reemergence of conservative political practices and the traditional style of American social welfare
Exploring the Functions of Different Forms of Trust in Collaborative Natural Resource Management
Successful natural resource management increasingly requires collaboration across boundaries and between diverse stakeholder groups, and trust is a key ingredient of successful collaboration. This study represents an early qualitative empirical attempt to understand how different forms of trust develop, function, and interact in collaborative natural resource management initiatives. We conducted case studies of four landscape-level initiatives in…
Environmental education, age, race, and socioeconomic class
Despite growing calls for greater inclusivity and cultural responsiveness, little is known about how environmental education (EE) may differentially affect diverse audiences. As part of a national study of 334 environmentally focused day field trips for adolescent youth in the United States in 2018, we examined how outcomes differed for students of different grade levels, racial backgrounds, and socioeconomic status. Participants who were younger…
Development and validation of scales to measure environmental responsibility, character development, and attitudes toward school
This investigation examines the use of structural equation modeling (SEM) procedures to develop and validate scales to measure environmental responsibility, character development and leadership, and attitudes toward school for environmental education programs servicing middle school children. The scales represent outcomes commonly of interest to environmental education programs and also to after‐school and positive youth development activities. F…
Migration and the Social Order in Erie County, New York
Mass transiency remains the most striking and consistent finding to emerge from quantitative studies of Victorian North America. In almost every place where historians have looked at least half, often two thirds, of the adults present at one end of a decade had left ten years later, and rates based on shorter periods reveal a stream of people constantly flowing through nineteenth-century cities. Although 363,000 people lived in Boston in 1880 and…
Identifying and developing crosscutting environmental education outcomes for adolescents in the twenty-first century (EE21)
While multiple valid measures exist for assessing outcomes of environmental education (EE) programs, the field lacks a comprehensive and logistically feasible common instrument that can apply across diverse programs. We describe a participatory effort for identifying and developing crosscutting outcomes for Environmental Education in the twenty-first Century (EE21). Following extensive input and debate from a wide range of EE providers and resear…
What difference do role models make? Investigating outcomes at a residential environmental education center
Role models may be essential in helping students develop environmental literacy and characteristics associated with positive youth development (PYD). We examine the identities of middle school students’ self-reported role models before, immediately after, and three months following an immersive 5-day residential environmental education (EE) experience that targets environmental responsibility, character development and leadership, and attitudes t…
Falling Far from the Tree
Employing the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series of the University of Minnesota, we chronicle the changing timing and duration of transitions to adulthood in the twentieth century. Successive generations of young Americans reinvented the transition to adulthood to accommodate shifts in the economy and the American state. The patterned choices of young people delineate three eras of social history in the twentieth century: the era of reciproci…
Does interpretation influence elaboration and environmental behaviors
Understanding the development of pro-environmental behavioral intentions and behaviors remains one of the greatest challenges for environmental educators worldwide. Using the Elaboration Likelihood Model as a theoretical foundation, we developed surveys to evaluate the influence of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Junior Ranger program on youths’ (ages 8–13) elaboration (comprised of awareness, interest, and cognitive engagement) and stewa…
Perceptions of Legally Mandated Public Involvement Processes in the U.S. Forest Service
Results from an agency-wide survey of U.S. Forest Service personnel indicate that respondents in our sample engage in National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) public involvement processes primarily to accomplish two goals. The most commonly supported goal was to inform and disclose as mandated by the act. The other goal reflected interests in managing agency relationships with various, often adversarial, publics. Respondents expressed variable vi…
Capital Stocks and Organizational Resilience in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal
We have undertaken empirical research to explore relationships between the stock of various capitals and the resilience of conservation area management committees (CAMCs)—the functional decision-making units of community-based conservation—within the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal. We surveyed 190 members of 30 CAMCs during the summer of 2007, estimated the capital stocks of each CAMC, and interviewed 13 park officials to assess the degree of…
Society and Family Strategy
Women and the Postindustrial Welfare State
nomic growth and expanded social welfare spending led to further decline and, by 1969 the poverty rate had dropped to 12 percent.1 Since the early 1970s, however, social welfare expenditures have not been as effective in controlling poverty. Although the poverty rate for some groups—partic ularly the aged—continued to decline, by the end of the decade the overall poverty rate had begun to rise; by 1983 it had ex ceeded 15 percent. Since the Great…
Influence of educator’s emotional support behaviors on environmental education student outcomes
Environmental education (EE) aims to create environmentally literate individuals that have the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to solve important environmental issues. However, little research examines whether and which educator’s emotional support behaviors, such as responsiveness and positive communications, enhance outcomes in an EE program. Utilizing student surveys, programmatic observations, and qualitative notes collected from 334 EE f…
Influence of the natural setting on environmental education outcomes
Environmental education (EE) typically occurs in natural settings, which research suggests may enhance learning outcomes. Although field trips are commonly used to teach EE, few studies have isolated the influence of different setting characteristics for enhancing participant outcomes during an EE field trip. According to the literature, certain attributes of the natural setting, including novelty, beauty, and naturalness, as well as how the sett…
Do pre-visit preparation and post-visit activities improve student outcomes on field trips
Studies of individual environmental education (EE) field trip programs have found that pre-visit preparation and post-visit follow-up activities can enhance desired student outcomes. We examined these relationships across a broad sample of single-day EE field trip programs for adolescent youth (grades 5-8) across the United States. We measured student outcomes, reflecting environmental literacy, 21st century skills, positive youth development, an…
Trust ecology and the resilience of natural resource management institutions
The resilience of natural resource management (NRM) institutions are largely contingent on the capacities of the people and organizations within those institutions to learn, innovate, and adapt, both individually and collectively. These capacities may be powerfully constrained or catalyzed by the nature of the relationships between the various entities involved. Trust, in particular, has been identified repeatedly as a key component of institutio…
The Temple
Population Persistence and Early Industrialization in a Canadian City
The high rate of population turnover in nineteenth-century North American cities no longer requires emphasis. However, students of historical migration have progressed very little beyond merely documenting its existence. As a result, the relationship of social, economic, and demographic factors to migration remains imperfectly understood, and the extent to which rates of population movement varied with economic growth, population size, or other f…
Population Persistence and Early Industrialization in a Canadian City
Migration and the Social Order in Erie County, New York
Mass transiency remains the most striking and consistent finding to emerge from quantitative studies of Victorian North America. In almost every place where historians have looked at least half, often two thirds, of the adults present at one end of a decade had left ten years later, and rates based on shorter periods reveal a stream of people constantly flowing through nineteenth-century cities. Although 363,000 people lived in Boston in 1880 and…
Natives and Newcomers; The Ordering of Opportunity in Mid-Nineteenth Century Poughkeepsie
History and the Limits of Population Policy
A detailed case study of the fertility decline in the United States between 1855 and 1915 is summarized. Included in the data base are about 30000 families 1 of the largest data bases ever compiled for the historical study of fertility. Focus in this discussion is on the major trends in the data and what they convey regarding the interconnections between fertility social history research strategy and public policy. Between 1855 and 1915 the annua…
Class
Journal Article Class: Image and Reality in Britain, France and the USA since 1930. By Arthur Marwick. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. 416 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95.) Get access Mark J. Stern Mark J. Stern University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 1, June 1981, Pages 193–194, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
Fertility, Class, and Industrial Capitalism
highest fertility rates in the world. In 1810 the number of children age 0-4 per 1,000 women age 20-44 was 1,358. By 1840, in only one generation, it had declined 20 percent, to 1,085. Between 1855 and 1915, the years with which this study is especially concerned, the annual birthrate among native whites in the United States declined from 42.8 to 26.2 per thousand, a drop of nearly 40 percent. Compared with other Western nations, America's extrao…
The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism
Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism
If All the World were Hamilton, Ontario and Buffalo, New York
The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism
Journal Article The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism. By Michael B. Katz, Michael J. Doucet, and Mark J. Stern. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982. XV + 444 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $37.50.) Get access Paul E. Johnson Paul E. Johnson Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 4, March 1983, Pages 982–983, https://doi.org/10.2…
The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism
Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution
The Emergence of the Homeless as a Public Problem
Using the model of social problems developed by Herbert Blumer, this article examines the recent public attention directed at homelessness. Based on this analysis, the article places the homeless issue in historical perspective, arguing that it is an element of the recent reemergence of conservative political practices and the traditional style of American social welfare
Capitalism, Class, and Social Statistics
Emperor Katz's New Clothes; Or with the Wizard in Oz
THIS BOOK IS THE PRODUCT of massive funding (it and its predecessor, The People of Hamilton, Canada West, acknowledge the support of five institutions of higher learning and four major grants/fellowships) as well as more than ten years of intensive research and collaboration. It would be surprising and shocking if historians and other social scientists could not find arguments, data, and perspectives in a volume of this nature that will enhance t…
The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism
The Origins of Public High Schools
Journal Article The Origins of Public High Schools: A Reexamination of the Beverly High School Controversy. By Maris A. Vinovskis. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. xiv + 172 pp. $27.50.) Get access Mark J. Stern Mark J. Stern University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 3, December 1986, Page 765, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903039 Publ…
Women and the Postindustrial Welfare State
nomic growth and expanded social welfare spending led to further decline and, by 1969 the poverty rate had dropped to 12 percent.1 Since the early 1970s, however, social welfare expenditures have not been as effective in controlling poverty. Although the poverty rate for some groups—partic ularly the aged—continued to decline, by the end of the decade the overall poverty rate had begun to rise; by 1983 it had ex ceeded 15 percent. Since the Great…
Society and Family Strategy
Journal Article Society and Family Strategy: Erie County, New York, 1830–1920. By Mark J. Stern. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. xiv + 172 pp. Cloth, $39.50; paper, $12.95.) Get access Kirk Jeffrey Kirk Jeffrey Carleton College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 1, June 1988, Pages 264–265, https://doi.org/10.2307/1889725 Published: 01 June 1988
Dependency and Poverty
Society and Family Strategy
Defending a Way of Life
Journal Article Defending a Way of Life: An American Community in the Nineteenth Century. By Michael Cassity. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. xvi + 259 pp. Cloth, $44.50; paper, $14.95.) Get access Mark J. Stern Mark J. Stern University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Pages 686–687, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
In Care of the State
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