Russell Weaver
Biographic Data
| ID | 146137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Russell Weaver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Russell |
| FAMILY NAME | Weaver |
| SIGNATURE | WEAVER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6149-3713 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What influences where volunteers practice environmental stewardship? The role of scale(s) in sorting stewards
Environmental stewardship (ES) typically occurs at nonprofit organizations through stewardship programs. Organizations may have limited capacity to understand what motivates volunteers, which limits recruitment and sustainment. Using a community geography approach, we propose that stewards self-sort and mobilize based on how an organization’s scale of operation matches the scale of stewards’ motivations. We test this in a comparative research des…
On the Possible Existence of a ‘First Law of Environmental Stewardship’: How Organisations Bring Volunteers Together in Social and Geographic Space
This article contends that environmental organisations vary in type, scale and purpose in ways that help stewards self-sort into the opportunities that align with their individual motivations and environmental concerns. To explore these potential links between personal motivations and environmental organisational attributes, we rely on descriptive and inferential statistics from surveys of two partner environmental organisations: one local scale …
Can Social Institutions Awaken “Sleeping Giants”? A Pilot Electoral Geography Study of Latinx Voter Turnout in Texas Counties in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
The Latinx population is the second largest ethnic group in the United States. In Texas, nearly two fifths of the population is classified as Latinx, and Latinx persons make up over 28 percent of the state’s eligible voters. Yet, both in Texas and nationwide, Latinx turnout is consistently and disproportionately low compared to other ethnic groups. Consequently, Latinx persons are often viewed, collectively, as a “sleeping giant” in U.S. politics…
Moisture Content in Decomposing, Desiccated, and Mummified Human Tissue
Due to the nature of mummification, tissue that has been significantly desiccated may never reach the advanced stages of decomposition. This research measured the moisture content of five donated individuals placed at the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility at Texas State University over a period of nearly three months. Moisture-content readings were taken from 20 sites on each body on a daily basis and then analyzed through multilevel modeli…
Place Identity and Social Capital in an Appalachian Town
Given the growing interest in social capital as an asset in affecting positive change, a need exists to further our understanding of this concept. This research explores the relationship between social capital and place identity in Morehead, Kentucky. We utilize economic games to measure behavioral indicators of social capital, such as trust, reciprocity, and altruism. Our findings support expectations that social capital is available even in eco…
Can Shrinking Cities Demolish Vacancy? An Empirical Evaluation of a Demolition-First Approach to Vacancy Management in Buffalo, NY, USA
Publicly-funded demolition of vacant structures is an essential tool used in shrinking cities to eliminate nuisances and, often, reduce vacancy rates. Concerning the latter, however, when shrinking cities implement large-scale demolition programs independent of complementary planning efforts, it is reasonable to expect impacts on vacancy to be negligible. Among other reasons, demolition operates only on the outflow of existing vacant structures a…
The Rocky Mountains And The Southwest: Using Feature Names To Study Two Iconic Subregions In The American West
Geographic regions can be defined in many ways, including via physiography, historical development patterns, language, and culture. After broadly surveying different methods of regionalization and their influences on studies of the American West, this article uses a vernacular‐mapping approach to: first, propose distinctive toponyms that are relatively unique to cultures situated in the American Rocky Mountains and Southwest areas; second, map th…
Palliative planning in an American shrinking city – Some thoughts and preliminary policy analysis
Urban decline is a wicked problem that conventional tools of local government planning are not scoped to solve once and for all. Accordingly, local public policy and community development programs are increasingly aimed at mitigating symptoms rather than cause(s) of decline. These “palliative” efforts attempt to improve quality of life for existing residents in order to lower the probability of further decline. This research note describes a pall…
Determinants of Appalachian Identity: Using Vernacular Traces to Study Cultural Geographies of an American Region
This article uses data on two vernacular traces, toponyms and business names, to explore and analyze cultural geographies of the U.S. Appalachian region. First, cluster detection is applied to a set of generic place names (toponyms) that are found to be components of a relatively unique Appalachian geographic vernacular. The results from this exercise are then mapped onto common spatial representations of the Appalachian region, where they are co…
Geographical Approaches to Understanding Urban Decline: From Evolutionary Theory to Political Economy…and Back
This article surveys selected theories of urban growth and decline, from an American shrinking cities perspective, on the backdrop of three key themes. First, urban change is context‐dependent. Second, urban (de)growth processes are multiscalar. And third, growth and shrinkage are not part of a dichotomy but are different realizations of similar underlying processes. Because the relationships between globalization and regional‐ and city‐level urb…
A Cross-Level Exploratory Analysis of "Neighborhood Effects" on Urban Behavior: An Evolutionary Perspective
It is now generally accepted that spatially-based neighborhood or contextual attributes influence individual behaviors. However, studies of contextual effects often operationalize "neighborhoods" as static, single-level administrative units that are chosen for data availability rather than theoretical reasons. This practice has led to new calls for sound conceptual models that guide data collection efforts and statistical analyses related to thes…
Can Voter Identification Laws Increase Electoral Participation in the United States? Probably Not-A Simple Model of the Voting Market
Proponents of voter photographic identification (ID) laws in the United States have argued that such measures can increase overall voter turnout. The implications of this proposition contradict classic models of voting behavior, which state that voting costs and electoral participation are inversely related. The present article/research note explores this tension in the context of some fundamental economic concepts. Namely, after identifying char…
The Racial Context of Convenience Voting Cutbacks: Early Voting in Ohio During the 2008 and 2012 U.S. Presidential Elections
Classic models of democratic political behavior imply that eliminating opportunities to vote early in person (EIP) negatively affects the political participation of voters who prefer to use that option. Nevertheless, several U.S. state legislatures recently passed or proposed laws to scale back their EIP voting operations. Such efforts have met with opposition, as both academic researchers and federal courts have found that minority voters, espec…
Evolutionary Analysis of Neighborhood Decline Using Multilevel Selection Theory
This article proposes an analytical framework of neighborhood decline grounded in evolutionary multilevel selection (MLS) theory. We demonstrate that MLS allows for the unification of at least two distinct theoretical approaches—the ecological and the political economy approaches—to analyzing urban change. From these developments we generate three hypotheses about intracity dynamics. The hypotheses are tested with longitudinal data using space–ti…
Contextual Influences on Political Behavior in Cities: Toward Urban Electoral Geography
While there is now appreciable support among electoral geographers and political scientists for the idea that neighborhood context influences political behavior, there remains no consensus on the appropriate scale-i.e., the "true causally relevant" geographic extent-at which to analyze these effects. Importantly, this "uncertain geographic context problem" is not unique to electoral geography. Rather, it arises wherever researchers attempt to ana…
Re-framing the urban blight problem with trans-disciplinary insights from ecological economics
Palliative planning in an American shrinking city – Some thoughts and preliminary policy analysis
Urban decline is a wicked problem that conventional tools of local government planning are not scoped to solve once and for all. Accordingly, local public policy and community development programs are increasingly aimed at mitigating symptoms rather than cause(s) of decline. These “palliative” efforts attempt to improve quality of life for existing residents in order to lower the probability of further decline. This research note describes a pall…
Contextual Influences on Political Behavior in Cities: Toward Urban Electoral Geography
While there is now appreciable support among electoral geographers and political scientists for the idea that neighborhood context influences political behavior, there remains no consensus on the appropriate scale-i.e., the "true causally relevant" geographic extent-at which to analyze these effects. Importantly, this "uncertain geographic context problem" is not unique to electoral geography. Rather, it arises wherever researchers attempt to ana…
Can Voter Identification Laws Increase Electoral Participation in the United States? Probably Not-A Simple Model of the Voting Market
Proponents of voter photographic identification (ID) laws in the United States have argued that such measures can increase overall voter turnout. The implications of this proposition contradict classic models of voting behavior, which state that voting costs and electoral participation are inversely related. The present article/research note explores this tension in the context of some fundamental economic concepts. Namely, after identifying char…
The Racial Context of Convenience Voting Cutbacks: Early Voting in Ohio During the 2008 and 2012 U.S. Presidential Elections
Classic models of democratic political behavior imply that eliminating opportunities to vote early in person (EIP) negatively affects the political participation of voters who prefer to use that option. Nevertheless, several U.S. state legislatures recently passed or proposed laws to scale back their EIP voting operations. Such efforts have met with opposition, as both academic researchers and federal courts have found that minority voters, espec…
Evolutionary Analysis of Neighborhood Decline Using Multilevel Selection Theory
This article proposes an analytical framework of neighborhood decline grounded in evolutionary multilevel selection (MLS) theory. We demonstrate that MLS allows for the unification of at least two distinct theoretical approaches—the ecological and the political economy approaches—to analyzing urban change. From these developments we generate three hypotheses about intracity dynamics. The hypotheses are tested with longitudinal data using space–ti…
Can Shrinking Cities Demolish Vacancy? An Empirical Evaluation of a Demolition-First Approach to Vacancy Management in Buffalo, NY, USA
Publicly-funded demolition of vacant structures is an essential tool used in shrinking cities to eliminate nuisances and, often, reduce vacancy rates. Concerning the latter, however, when shrinking cities implement large-scale demolition programs independent of complementary planning efforts, it is reasonable to expect impacts on vacancy to be negligible. Among other reasons, demolition operates only on the outflow of existing vacant structures a…
The Rocky Mountains And The Southwest: Using Feature Names To Study Two Iconic Subregions In The American West
Geographic regions can be defined in many ways, including via physiography, historical development patterns, language, and culture. After broadly surveying different methods of regionalization and their influences on studies of the American West, this article uses a vernacular‐mapping approach to: first, propose distinctive toponyms that are relatively unique to cultures situated in the American Rocky Mountains and Southwest areas; second, map th…
Determinants of Appalachian Identity: Using Vernacular Traces to Study Cultural Geographies of an American Region
This article uses data on two vernacular traces, toponyms and business names, to explore and analyze cultural geographies of the U.S. Appalachian region. First, cluster detection is applied to a set of generic place names (toponyms) that are found to be components of a relatively unique Appalachian geographic vernacular. The results from this exercise are then mapped onto common spatial representations of the Appalachian region, where they are co…
A Cross-Level Exploratory Analysis of "Neighborhood Effects" on Urban Behavior: An Evolutionary Perspective
It is now generally accepted that spatially-based neighborhood or contextual attributes influence individual behaviors. However, studies of contextual effects often operationalize "neighborhoods" as static, single-level administrative units that are chosen for data availability rather than theoretical reasons. This practice has led to new calls for sound conceptual models that guide data collection efforts and statistical analyses related to thes…
Re-framing the urban blight problem with trans-disciplinary insights from ecological economics
Evolutionary Analysis of Neighborhood Decline Using Multilevel Selection Theory
This article proposes an analytical framework of neighborhood decline grounded in evolutionary multilevel selection (MLS) theory. We demonstrate that MLS allows for the unification of at least two distinct theoretical approaches—the ecological and the political economy approaches—to analyzing urban change. From these developments we generate three hypotheses about intracity dynamics. The hypotheses are tested with longitudinal data using space–ti…
Contextual Influences on Political Behavior in Cities: Toward Urban Electoral Geography
While there is now appreciable support among electoral geographers and political scientists for the idea that neighborhood context influences political behavior, there remains no consensus on the appropriate scale-i.e., the "true causally relevant" geographic extent-at which to analyze these effects. Importantly, this "uncertain geographic context problem" is not unique to electoral geography. Rather, it arises wherever researchers attempt to ana…
Geographical Approaches to Understanding Urban Decline: From Evolutionary Theory to Political Economy…and Back
This article surveys selected theories of urban growth and decline, from an American shrinking cities perspective, on the backdrop of three key themes. First, urban change is context‐dependent. Second, urban (de)growth processes are multiscalar. And third, growth and shrinkage are not part of a dichotomy but are different realizations of similar underlying processes. Because the relationships between globalization and regional‐ and city‐level urb…
A Cross-Level Exploratory Analysis of "Neighborhood Effects" on Urban Behavior: An Evolutionary Perspective
It is now generally accepted that spatially-based neighborhood or contextual attributes influence individual behaviors. However, studies of contextual effects often operationalize "neighborhoods" as static, single-level administrative units that are chosen for data availability rather than theoretical reasons. This practice has led to new calls for sound conceptual models that guide data collection efforts and statistical analyses related to thes…
Can Voter Identification Laws Increase Electoral Participation in the United States? Probably Not-A Simple Model of the Voting Market
Proponents of voter photographic identification (ID) laws in the United States have argued that such measures can increase overall voter turnout. The implications of this proposition contradict classic models of voting behavior, which state that voting costs and electoral participation are inversely related. The present article/research note explores this tension in the context of some fundamental economic concepts. Namely, after identifying char…
The Racial Context of Convenience Voting Cutbacks: Early Voting in Ohio During the 2008 and 2012 U.S. Presidential Elections
Classic models of democratic political behavior imply that eliminating opportunities to vote early in person (EIP) negatively affects the political participation of voters who prefer to use that option. Nevertheless, several U.S. state legislatures recently passed or proposed laws to scale back their EIP voting operations. Such efforts have met with opposition, as both academic researchers and federal courts have found that minority voters, espec…
Determinants of Appalachian Identity: Using Vernacular Traces to Study Cultural Geographies of an American Region
This article uses data on two vernacular traces, toponyms and business names, to explore and analyze cultural geographies of the U.S. Appalachian region. First, cluster detection is applied to a set of generic place names (toponyms) that are found to be components of a relatively unique Appalachian geographic vernacular. The results from this exercise are then mapped onto common spatial representations of the Appalachian region, where they are co…
Palliative planning in an American shrinking city – Some thoughts and preliminary policy analysis
Urban decline is a wicked problem that conventional tools of local government planning are not scoped to solve once and for all. Accordingly, local public policy and community development programs are increasingly aimed at mitigating symptoms rather than cause(s) of decline. These “palliative” efforts attempt to improve quality of life for existing residents in order to lower the probability of further decline. This research note describes a pall…
Can Shrinking Cities Demolish Vacancy? An Empirical Evaluation of a Demolition-First Approach to Vacancy Management in Buffalo, NY, USA
Publicly-funded demolition of vacant structures is an essential tool used in shrinking cities to eliminate nuisances and, often, reduce vacancy rates. Concerning the latter, however, when shrinking cities implement large-scale demolition programs independent of complementary planning efforts, it is reasonable to expect impacts on vacancy to be negligible. Among other reasons, demolition operates only on the outflow of existing vacant structures a…
The Rocky Mountains And The Southwest: Using Feature Names To Study Two Iconic Subregions In The American West
Geographic regions can be defined in many ways, including via physiography, historical development patterns, language, and culture. After broadly surveying different methods of regionalization and their influences on studies of the American West, this article uses a vernacular‐mapping approach to: first, propose distinctive toponyms that are relatively unique to cultures situated in the American Rocky Mountains and Southwest areas; second, map th…
Place Identity and Social Capital in an Appalachian Town
Given the growing interest in social capital as an asset in affecting positive change, a need exists to further our understanding of this concept. This research explores the relationship between social capital and place identity in Morehead, Kentucky. We utilize economic games to measure behavioral indicators of social capital, such as trust, reciprocity, and altruism. Our findings support expectations that social capital is available even in eco…
Moisture Content in Decomposing, Desiccated, and Mummified Human Tissue
Due to the nature of mummification, tissue that has been significantly desiccated may never reach the advanced stages of decomposition. This research measured the moisture content of five donated individuals placed at the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility at Texas State University over a period of nearly three months. Moisture-content readings were taken from 20 sites on each body on a daily basis and then analyzed through multilevel modeli…
Can Social Institutions Awaken “Sleeping Giants”? A Pilot Electoral Geography Study of Latinx Voter Turnout in Texas Counties in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
The Latinx population is the second largest ethnic group in the United States. In Texas, nearly two fifths of the population is classified as Latinx, and Latinx persons make up over 28 percent of the state’s eligible voters. Yet, both in Texas and nationwide, Latinx turnout is consistently and disproportionately low compared to other ethnic groups. Consequently, Latinx persons are often viewed, collectively, as a “sleeping giant” in U.S. politics…
On the Possible Existence of a ‘First Law of Environmental Stewardship’: How Organisations Bring Volunteers Together in Social and Geographic Space
This article contends that environmental organisations vary in type, scale and purpose in ways that help stewards self-sort into the opportunities that align with their individual motivations and environmental concerns. To explore these potential links between personal motivations and environmental organisational attributes, we rely on descriptive and inferential statistics from surveys of two partner environmental organisations: one local scale …
What influences where volunteers practice environmental stewardship? The role of scale(s) in sorting stewards
Environmental stewardship (ES) typically occurs at nonprofit organizations through stewardship programs. Organizations may have limited capacity to understand what motivates volunteers, which limits recruitment and sustainment. Using a community geography approach, we propose that stewards self-sort and mobilize based on how an organization’s scale of operation matches the scale of stewards’ motivations. We test this in a comparative research des…
Geography (14 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (4 works)