Max J Pfeffer
Biographic Data
| ID | 153770 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Max J Pfeffer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Max J |
| FAMILY NAME | Pfeffer |
| SIGNATURE | PFEFFER M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7739-4031 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 258 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Strong Ties, Weak Ties, and Human Capital
This study focuses on the role of social ties and human capital in the integration of Latino immigrants into the local economy. This analysis extends earlier research by focusing on more rural contexts with limited labor-market opportunities and less access to social resources provided by coethnics. We reconsider conclusions of previous studies by focusing on areas with limited labor-market opportunities and less access to resources provided by c…
The Sage Handbook of Environment and Society
Focusing on the interactions between people, societies and economies, and the state of nature and the environment, this text presents readers in social science and natural science with a manual of the past, present and future of environment-society links
Organizing Citizen Engagement for Democratic Environmental Planning
In recent years civic engagement emphasizing community involvement and collective learning has become a centerpiece of environmental management. This article explores civic participation in water resources management and whether a framework developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) fosters democratic environmental planning. We provide an overview of citizen involvement in water resource management, discuss the U.S. EPA fram…
Product Review
Tropical Forests
New Immigrants in Rural Communities
Research Article| September 01 2006 New Immigrants in Rural Communities: THE CHALLENGES OF INTEGRATION Pilar A. Parra; Pilar A. Parra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Max J. Pfeffer Max J. Pfeffer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 81–98. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-006 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Sit…
Environmental Globalization, Organizational Form, and Expected Benefits from Protected Areas in Central America
Environmental globalization has led to the implementation of conservation efforts like the creation of protected areas that often promote the interests of core countries in poorer regions. The creation of protected areas in poor areas frequently creates tensions between human needs like food and shelter and environmental conservation. Support for such conservation efforts partially depends on expectations of benefits by those impacted. This artic…
Forest Values of National Park Neighbors in Costa Rica
Global environmental concern and action have increased markedly over the past few decades. Rather than resulting in uniform environmental values across the globe, we argue that distinct environmentalisms are socially constructed in different places through the complex interactions between the global environmental values and locally unique historical, political, and environmental factors. We analyze forest-related mental and cultural models-includ…
Latino Workers in the Contemporary South
Social Learning for Collaborative Natural Resource Management
This article contributes to understanding about the potential and limitations of social learning for collaborative natural resource management. Participants in a deliberative planning process involving a state agency and local communities developed common purpose and collaborative relationships, two requisites of comanagement. Eight process characteristics fostered social learning: open communication, diverse participation, unrestrained thinking,…
Immigrant Environmental Behaviors in New York City
Objective. This article compares environmental behaviors of immigrants and the native‐born to answer questions about potential impacts of immigration on the U.S. environment. Methods. We consider immigrant/native‐born differences in the likelihood of engaging in environmentally friendly behavior. With data from a survey of New York City residents, we test two hypotheses regarding environmental behavior: (1) controlling for environmental orientati…
Forest Conservation, Value Conflict, and Interest Formation in a Honduran National Park
We argue that attempts to superimpose park regulatory regimes on existing land uses in the tropics represent conflicts between alternative cultural models of natural resource management. The results of such conflicts are unique regulatory regimes emerging from distinctive processes that redefine the terms and limits of natural resource use. In creating a scarcity of available resources, parks encourage social differentiation and greater awareness…
Does demographic knowledge matter? Results of a poll in the New York City Watershed
Changing Rural Social Systems
Can Structural-Functionalism be revised to account for adverse changes in these rural social systems? Can theoretical revisions then guide new forms of rural development in which communities rebuild familial and occupational systems so that social inequalities converge? In these essays, the answers to both questions invite new propositions on how rural social systems are organized
Working Poor
Immigrant and Native Families
Farmland preservation, development rights and the theory of the growth machine
We examine the effectiveness of farmland preservation measures in challenging efforts to convert agricultural land to nonfarm uses in rural/urban fringe areas. Our focus is on programs based on the exchange of development rights in the northeastern United States. We employ theoretical constructs from Logan and Molotch's theory of the urban growth machine. They argue that the commodification of land associated with urbanization is the most importa…
Low-Wage Employment and Ghetto Poverty
For decades inner-city residents of Philadelphia participated in seasonal farm work in nearby rural areas of New Jersey. In the 1980s newly arrived Cambodian refugees became the dominant group, replacing African Americans in this workforce. Review of theories that address the relationship between ghetto poverty and labor markets raises key questions about the observed labor market transformation: I) Were African-American day-haul workers systemat…
Sustainable agriculture in historical perspective
Labor and Production Barriers to the Reduction of Agricultural Chemical Inputs1
Advocates of sustainable agriculture consider farmer flexibility and innovativeness a key element in efforts to develop farm practices that reduce chemical inputs. In contrast to labor displacing technologies, farming with reduced chemical inputs may increase labor demands. Consequently, concerns about labor supply may affect farmer adaptability in reducing chemical inputs. This research addresses two specific questions. First, how concerned are …
Gender and Off-Farm Employment in Two Farming Systems
An important farm household survival strategy in the 1980s agricultural crisis was off-farm employment. Recent research shows that gender role expectations structure off-farm employment's effects on farm operations. However, this research does not evaluate off-farm employment's effects within different socioeconomic and cultural settings. This article explores case studies of two localities with different farming systems: family farming in the Co…
Class and Community in Frontier Colorado.Richard Hogan
Values and policy conflict in West German agriculture
Changing Characteristics of Farm Workers and the Labour Process
The Labor Process and Corporate Agriculture
Social Learning for Collaborative Natural Resource Management
This article contributes to understanding about the potential and limitations of social learning for collaborative natural resource management. Participants in a deliberative planning process involving a state agency and local communities developed common purpose and collaborative relationships, two requisites of comanagement. Eight process characteristics fostered social learning: open communication, diverse participation, unrestrained thinking,…
Strong Ties, Weak Ties, and Human Capital
This study focuses on the role of social ties and human capital in the integration of Latino immigrants into the local economy. This analysis extends earlier research by focusing on more rural contexts with limited labor-market opportunities and less access to social resources provided by coethnics. We reconsider conclusions of previous studies by focusing on areas with limited labor-market opportunities and less access to resources provided by c…
Farmland preservation, development rights and the theory of the growth machine
We examine the effectiveness of farmland preservation measures in challenging efforts to convert agricultural land to nonfarm uses in rural/urban fringe areas. Our focus is on programs based on the exchange of development rights in the northeastern United States. We employ theoretical constructs from Logan and Molotch's theory of the urban growth machine. They argue that the commodification of land associated with urbanization is the most importa…
Immigrant Environmental Behaviors in New York City
Objective. This article compares environmental behaviors of immigrants and the native‐born to answer questions about potential impacts of immigration on the U.S. environment. Methods. We consider immigrant/native‐born differences in the likelihood of engaging in environmentally friendly behavior. With data from a survey of New York City residents, we test two hypotheses regarding environmental behavior: (1) controlling for environmental orientati…
Forest Conservation, Value Conflict, and Interest Formation in a Honduran National Park
We argue that attempts to superimpose park regulatory regimes on existing land uses in the tropics represent conflicts between alternative cultural models of natural resource management. The results of such conflicts are unique regulatory regimes emerging from distinctive processes that redefine the terms and limits of natural resource use. In creating a scarcity of available resources, parks encourage social differentiation and greater awareness…
Labor and Production Barriers to the Reduction of Agricultural Chemical Inputs1
Advocates of sustainable agriculture consider farmer flexibility and innovativeness a key element in efforts to develop farm practices that reduce chemical inputs. In contrast to labor displacing technologies, farming with reduced chemical inputs may increase labor demands. Consequently, concerns about labor supply may affect farmer adaptability in reducing chemical inputs. This research addresses two specific questions. First, how concerned are …
The Labor Process and Corporate Agriculture
Organizing Citizen Engagement for Democratic Environmental Planning
In recent years civic engagement emphasizing community involvement and collective learning has become a centerpiece of environmental management. This article explores civic participation in water resources management and whether a framework developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) fosters democratic environmental planning. We provide an overview of citizen involvement in water resource management, discuss the U.S. EPA fram…
Tropical Forests
New Immigrants in Rural Communities
Research Article| September 01 2006 New Immigrants in Rural Communities: THE CHALLENGES OF INTEGRATION Pilar A. Parra; Pilar A. Parra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Max J. Pfeffer Max J. Pfeffer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 81–98. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-006 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Sit…
Gender and Off-Farm Employment in Two Farming Systems
An important farm household survival strategy in the 1980s agricultural crisis was off-farm employment. Recent research shows that gender role expectations structure off-farm employment's effects on farm operations. However, this research does not evaluate off-farm employment's effects within different socioeconomic and cultural settings. This article explores case studies of two localities with different farming systems: family farming in the Co…
Low-Wage Employment and Ghetto Poverty
For decades inner-city residents of Philadelphia participated in seasonal farm work in nearby rural areas of New Jersey. In the 1980s newly arrived Cambodian refugees became the dominant group, replacing African Americans in this workforce. Review of theories that address the relationship between ghetto poverty and labor markets raises key questions about the observed labor market transformation: I) Were African-American day-haul workers systemat…
Sustainable agriculture in historical perspective
Values and policy conflict in West German agriculture
Environmental Globalization, Organizational Form, and Expected Benefits from Protected Areas in Central America
Environmental globalization has led to the implementation of conservation efforts like the creation of protected areas that often promote the interests of core countries in poorer regions. The creation of protected areas in poor areas frequently creates tensions between human needs like food and shelter and environmental conservation. Support for such conservation efforts partially depends on expectations of benefits by those impacted. This artic…
Changing Characteristics of Farm Workers and the Labour Process
Does demographic knowledge matter? Results of a poll in the New York City Watershed
The Labor Process and Corporate Agriculture
Changing Characteristics of Farm Workers and the Labour Process
Values and policy conflict in West German agriculture
Gender and Off-Farm Employment in Two Farming Systems
An important farm household survival strategy in the 1980s agricultural crisis was off-farm employment. Recent research shows that gender role expectations structure off-farm employment's effects on farm operations. However, this research does not evaluate off-farm employment's effects within different socioeconomic and cultural settings. This article explores case studies of two localities with different farming systems: family farming in the Co…
Class and Community in Frontier Colorado.Richard Hogan
Sustainable agriculture in historical perspective
Labor and Production Barriers to the Reduction of Agricultural Chemical Inputs1
Advocates of sustainable agriculture consider farmer flexibility and innovativeness a key element in efforts to develop farm practices that reduce chemical inputs. In contrast to labor displacing technologies, farming with reduced chemical inputs may increase labor demands. Consequently, concerns about labor supply may affect farmer adaptability in reducing chemical inputs. This research addresses two specific questions. First, how concerned are …
Farmland preservation, development rights and the theory of the growth machine
We examine the effectiveness of farmland preservation measures in challenging efforts to convert agricultural land to nonfarm uses in rural/urban fringe areas. Our focus is on programs based on the exchange of development rights in the northeastern United States. We employ theoretical constructs from Logan and Molotch's theory of the urban growth machine. They argue that the commodification of land associated with urbanization is the most importa…
Low-Wage Employment and Ghetto Poverty
For decades inner-city residents of Philadelphia participated in seasonal farm work in nearby rural areas of New Jersey. In the 1980s newly arrived Cambodian refugees became the dominant group, replacing African Americans in this workforce. Review of theories that address the relationship between ghetto poverty and labor markets raises key questions about the observed labor market transformation: I) Were African-American day-haul workers systemat…
Immigrant and Native Families
Working Poor
Does demographic knowledge matter? Results of a poll in the New York City Watershed
Changing Rural Social Systems
Can Structural-Functionalism be revised to account for adverse changes in these rural social systems? Can theoretical revisions then guide new forms of rural development in which communities rebuild familial and occupational systems so that social inequalities converge? In these essays, the answers to both questions invite new propositions on how rural social systems are organized
Forest Conservation, Value Conflict, and Interest Formation in a Honduran National Park
We argue that attempts to superimpose park regulatory regimes on existing land uses in the tropics represent conflicts between alternative cultural models of natural resource management. The results of such conflicts are unique regulatory regimes emerging from distinctive processes that redefine the terms and limits of natural resource use. In creating a scarcity of available resources, parks encourage social differentiation and greater awareness…
Immigrant Environmental Behaviors in New York City
Objective. This article compares environmental behaviors of immigrants and the native‐born to answer questions about potential impacts of immigration on the U.S. environment. Methods. We consider immigrant/native‐born differences in the likelihood of engaging in environmentally friendly behavior. With data from a survey of New York City residents, we test two hypotheses regarding environmental behavior: (1) controlling for environmental orientati…
Latino Workers in the Contemporary South
Social Learning for Collaborative Natural Resource Management
This article contributes to understanding about the potential and limitations of social learning for collaborative natural resource management. Participants in a deliberative planning process involving a state agency and local communities developed common purpose and collaborative relationships, two requisites of comanagement. Eight process characteristics fostered social learning: open communication, diverse participation, unrestrained thinking,…
Forest Values of National Park Neighbors in Costa Rica
Global environmental concern and action have increased markedly over the past few decades. Rather than resulting in uniform environmental values across the globe, we argue that distinct environmentalisms are socially constructed in different places through the complex interactions between the global environmental values and locally unique historical, political, and environmental factors. We analyze forest-related mental and cultural models-includ…
Tropical Forests
New Immigrants in Rural Communities
Research Article| September 01 2006 New Immigrants in Rural Communities: THE CHALLENGES OF INTEGRATION Pilar A. Parra; Pilar A. Parra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Max J. Pfeffer Max J. Pfeffer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 81–98. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-006 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Sit…
Environmental Globalization, Organizational Form, and Expected Benefits from Protected Areas in Central America
Environmental globalization has led to the implementation of conservation efforts like the creation of protected areas that often promote the interests of core countries in poorer regions. The creation of protected areas in poor areas frequently creates tensions between human needs like food and shelter and environmental conservation. Support for such conservation efforts partially depends on expectations of benefits by those impacted. This artic…
The Sage Handbook of Environment and Society
Focusing on the interactions between people, societies and economies, and the state of nature and the environment, this text presents readers in social science and natural science with a manual of the past, present and future of environment-society links
Organizing Citizen Engagement for Democratic Environmental Planning
In recent years civic engagement emphasizing community involvement and collective learning has become a centerpiece of environmental management. This article explores civic participation in water resources management and whether a framework developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) fosters democratic environmental planning. We provide an overview of citizen involvement in water resource management, discuss the U.S. EPA fram…
Product Review
Strong Ties, Weak Ties, and Human Capital
This study focuses on the role of social ties and human capital in the integration of Latino immigrants into the local economy. This analysis extends earlier research by focusing on more rural contexts with limited labor-market opportunities and less access to social resources provided by coethnics. We reconsider conclusions of previous studies by focusing on areas with limited labor-market opportunities and less access to resources provided by c…
Economics (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Geography (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 works)