Lisa Jacobson
Biographic Data
| ID | 171835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Jacobson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobson |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Future Earth |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4936-2275 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A descriptive examination of rurality in the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes Cohort: Implications, illustrations, and future directions
PURPOSE: The Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Cohort has enrolled over 60,000 children to examine how early environmental factors (broadly defined) are associated with key child health outcomes. The ECHO Cohort may be well-positioned to contribute to our understanding of rural environments and contexts, which has implications for rural health disparities research. The present study examined the outcome of child obesity to …
Thresholds of significant harm at global level: The journey of the Earth Commission
The planetary boundary framework proposes ‘safe’ boundaries, but these boundaries are not necessarily ‘just’. Hence, we ask: How has the Earth Commission defined just boundaries building on the concept of minimizing significant harm and how many people are currently exposed to harm above the safe and just threshold? We document the work of the Earth Commission to address these questions using our Earth System Justice framework. We conclude that: …
Governing for a safe and just future with science-based targets: Opportunities and limitations
This paper reflects on the work of the Earth Commission and the Global Commons Alliance to include climate and environmental justice in establishing biophysical targets to stabilize the Earth system. Targets include those for global temperature (e.g. 1.5°C), biodiversity (e.g. % protected or natural land), surface and groundwater and nutrient pollution (e.g. phosphorus load). We discuss whether and how to define Earth system justice in relation t…
Applying earth system justice to phase out fossil fuels: Learning from the injustice of adopting 1.5 °C over 1 °C
The Paris Agreement has seen the adoption of a 1.5° to 2 °C climate target, based on the belief that climate change becomes ‘dangerous’ above this level. Since then, the scientific community and the countries most affected by global warming have reiterated that the maximum limit to be reached should be 1.5 °C. This paper goes one step further by questioning the reasoning behind the adoption of these targets, arguing that the fossil fuel-dependent…
Safe and just Earth system boundaries
The stability and resilience of the Earth system and human well-being are inseparably linked 1–3 , yet their interdependencies are generally under-recognized; consequently, they are often treated independently 4,5 . Here, we use modelling and literature assessment to quantify safe and just Earth system boundaries (ESBs) for climate, the biosphere, water and nutrient cycles, and aerosols at global and subglobal scales. We propose ESBs for maintain…
Earth system justice needed to identify and live within Earth system boundaries
Living within the safe and just Earth system boundaries for blue water
Safe and just Earth system boundaries (ESBs) for surface water and groundwater (blue water) have been defined for sustainable water management in the Anthropocene. Here we assessed whether minimum human needs could be met with surface water from within individual river basins alone and, where this is not possible, quantified how much groundwater would be required. Approximately 2.6 billion people live in river basins where groundwater is needed b…
Achieving a nature- and people-positive future
Despite decades of increasing investment in conservation, we have not succeeded in ''bending the curve'' of biodiversity decline. Efforts to meet new targets and goals for the next three decades risk repeating this outcome due to three factors: neglect of increasing drivers of decline; unrealistic expectations and time frames of biodiversity recovery; and insufficient attention to justice within and between generations and across countries. Our E…
Impacts of meeting minimum access on critical earth systems amidst the Great Inequality
The Sustainable Development Goals aim to improve access to resources and services, reduce environmental degradation, eradicate poverty and reduce inequality. However, the magnitude of the environmental burden that would arise from meeting the needs of the poorest is under debate—especially when compared to much larger burdens from the rich. We show that the ‘Great Acceleration’ of human impacts was characterized by a ‘Great Inequality’ in using a…
Identifying a Safe and Just Corridor for People and the Planet
Keeping the Earth system in a stable and resilient state, to safeguard Earth's life support systems while ensuring that Earth's benefits, risks, and related responsibilities are equitably shared, constitutes the grand challenge for human development in the Anthropocene. Here, we describe a framework that the recently formed Earth Commission will use to define and quantify target ranges for a “safe and just corridor” that meets these goals. Althou…
Reconciling safe planetary targets and planetary justice: Why should social scientists engage with planetary targets
As human activity threatens to make the planet unsafe for humanity and other life forms, scholars are identifying planetary targets set at a safe distance from biophysical thresholds beyond which critical Earth systems may collapse. Yet despite the profound implications that both meeting and transgressing such targets may have for human wellbeing, including the potential for negative trade-offs, there is limited social science analysis that syste…
Capitalism's Hidden Worlds
Capitalism's Hidden Worlds examines economic activities that occur in the concealed corners of the formal economy. Challenging common conceptions of capitalism as a system of transparent, open markets, essays reveal how capitalism depends upon, adapts to, and gains legitimacy from activities that occur outside the measured and the seen.
Lisa McGirr, The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State . New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2016
Jennifer Le Zotte. From Goodwill to Grunge: A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies
Jennifer Le Zotte’s provocative and engaging book examines how the once marginal and morally suspect enterprise of selling used goods in the United States grew over the course of the twentieth century into a set of profitable multimillion-dollar businesses that attracted customers from across the class spectrum. These secondhand shoppers included the needy, who relied on secondhand goods to make ends meet; the better-off, who scoured thrift store…
Will It Be Wine or Cocktails? The Quest to Build a Mass Market for California Wine after Prohibition
This article examines why wine marketers struggled to build a mass market for American wine from the 1930s to the 1950s. Wine promoters worked to both surmount and accommodate existing preferences for spirits by casting wine both as a base for cocktails and as the budget-friendly alternative to them. Previously marked as either too highbrow or too lowbrow, wine gradually lost its foreignness as merchandisers learned to sell the glamour of wine wi…
SimWars Simulation Case Book: Emergency Medicine
Erica Hannickel. Empire of Vines: Wine Culture in America
Erica Hannickel’s well-written and provocative study examines how winemaking and grape growing became linked in the American imagination with continental expansion and Manifest Destiny. Focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Hannickel locates these expansionist viticultural discourses in the writings of nurserymen, horticulturists, novelists, and winemakers who hoped the United States would establish a vibrant wine industry and…
Alcohol: Social Drinking in Cultural Context: By Janet Chrzan
(2014). Alcohol: Social Drinking in Cultural Context: By Janet Chrzan. Food, Culture & Society: Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 521-523
Navigating the Boundaries of Respectability and Desire: Seagram’s Advertising and the Meanings of Moderation after Repeal
This article examines Seagram’s institutional and brand advertising during the 1930s to illuminate how the Canadian distiller often muddied the meanings of moderation and respectability in its quest for legitimacy and mass markets. Even as Seagram’s ads counseled moderation, they also blurred the boundaries between having a good time and having “one too many.” The intended emphasis on the importance of responsible drinking was clear, but Seagram’…
Beer Goes to War: T he P olitics of B eer P romotion and P roduction in the S econd W orld W ar
In the Second World War, American brewers launched a massive public relations and advertising campaign to combat a resurgence of prohibitionism. This paper examines how brewers gained the stature of an essential wartime industry—a classification that gave them access to rationed goods denied other industries—despite dry protestations that beer wasted vital foodstuffs. It argues that brewers achieved such success by repoliticizing beer as an emble…
Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (review)
Reviewed by: Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America Lisa Jacobson (bio) Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. By Meg Jacobs . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xii+349. $35. Meg Jacobs's brilliant book presents a major reinterpretation of twentieth-century liberalism. Jacobs argues that "pocketbook politics"—the quest to broaden purchasing power through policie…
Standard of Living: The Measure of the Middle Class in Modern America (review)
Standard of Living: The Measure of the Middle Class in Modern America. By Marina Moskowitz. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. xii+300. $45
Recruiting Minority Men Who Have Sex With Men for HIV Research: Results From a 4-City Campaign
We describe the efforts of a 4-city campaign to recruit Black and Hispanic men who have sex with men into an established HIV epidemiological study. The campaign used community organizing principles and a social marketing model that focused on personnel, location, product, costs and benefits, and promotion. The campaign was developed at the community, group, and individual levels to both increase trust and reduce barriers. The proportion of Hispan…
Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood. Steven Mintz
On the Frontiers of Public History: Kansas City, Here We Come
Review Article| November 01 2005 On the Frontiers of Public History: Kansas City, Here We Come Lisa Jacobson Lisa Jacobson University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2005) 27 (4): 83–85. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2005.27.4.83 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter L…
Impacts of meeting minimum access on critical earth systems amidst the Great Inequality
The Sustainable Development Goals aim to improve access to resources and services, reduce environmental degradation, eradicate poverty and reduce inequality. However, the magnitude of the environmental burden that would arise from meeting the needs of the poorest is under debate—especially when compared to much larger burdens from the rich. We show that the ‘Great Acceleration’ of human impacts was characterized by a ‘Great Inequality’ in using a…
Earth system justice needed to identify and live within Earth system boundaries
Recruiting Minority Men Who Have Sex With Men for HIV Research: Results From a 4-City Campaign
We describe the efforts of a 4-city campaign to recruit Black and Hispanic men who have sex with men into an established HIV epidemiological study. The campaign used community organizing principles and a social marketing model that focused on personnel, location, product, costs and benefits, and promotion. The campaign was developed at the community, group, and individual levels to both increase trust and reduce barriers. The proportion of Hispan…
Reconciling safe planetary targets and planetary justice: Why should social scientists engage with planetary targets
As human activity threatens to make the planet unsafe for humanity and other life forms, scholars are identifying planetary targets set at a safe distance from biophysical thresholds beyond which critical Earth systems may collapse. Yet despite the profound implications that both meeting and transgressing such targets may have for human wellbeing, including the potential for negative trade-offs, there is limited social science analysis that syste…
Applying earth system justice to phase out fossil fuels: Learning from the injustice of adopting 1.5 °C over 1 °C
The Paris Agreement has seen the adoption of a 1.5° to 2 °C climate target, based on the belief that climate change becomes ‘dangerous’ above this level. Since then, the scientific community and the countries most affected by global warming have reiterated that the maximum limit to be reached should be 1.5 °C. This paper goes one step further by questioning the reasoning behind the adoption of these targets, arguing that the fossil fuel-dependent…
Manly Boys and Enterprising Dreamers: Business Ideology and the Construction of the Boy Consumer, 1910–1930
Early twentieth-century advertising discourses on the archetypal boy consumer promoted a masculinized ideal of consumption that broke decisively from the stereotype of the emotion-driven female shopper. Boys were lauded as rational, informed buyers who prized technological innovation and influenced parents and peers. While touting boys' ample consumer appetites, promoters of the boy consumer also depicted boys' interest in advertised goods as wor…
Living within the safe and just Earth system boundaries for blue water
Safe and just Earth system boundaries (ESBs) for surface water and groundwater (blue water) have been defined for sustainable water management in the Anthropocene. Here we assessed whether minimum human needs could be met with surface water from within individual river basins alone and, where this is not possible, quantified how much groundwater would be required. Approximately 2.6 billion people live in river basins where groundwater is needed b…
Will It Be Wine or Cocktails? The Quest to Build a Mass Market for California Wine after Prohibition
This article examines why wine marketers struggled to build a mass market for American wine from the 1930s to the 1950s. Wine promoters worked to both surmount and accommodate existing preferences for spirits by casting wine both as a base for cocktails and as the budget-friendly alternative to them. Previously marked as either too highbrow or too lowbrow, wine gradually lost its foreignness as merchandisers learned to sell the glamour of wine wi…
Beer Goes to War: T he P olitics of B eer P romotion and P roduction in the S econd W orld W ar
In the Second World War, American brewers launched a massive public relations and advertising campaign to combat a resurgence of prohibitionism. This paper examines how brewers gained the stature of an essential wartime industry—a classification that gave them access to rationed goods denied other industries—despite dry protestations that beer wasted vital foodstuffs. It argues that brewers achieved such success by repoliticizing beer as an emble…
National Museum of American Indian to Be Established on the Mall
NSF and the Social Sciences: Wherefore Art Thou, Anthropology
Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century (review)
Manly Boys and Enterprising Dreamers: Business Ideology and the Construction of the Boy Consumer, 1910–1930
Early twentieth-century advertising discourses on the archetypal boy consumer promoted a masculinized ideal of consumption that broke decisively from the stereotype of the emotion-driven female shopper. Boys were lauded as rational, informed buyers who prized technological innovation and influenced parents and peers. While touting boys' ample consumer appetites, promoters of the boy consumer also depicted boys' interest in advertised goods as wor…
Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning Regina Lee Blaszczyk
An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America (review)
A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature (review)
Reviewed by: A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature Lisa Jacobson (bio) A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature. By Bill Brown. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xii+245. $32. A Sense of Things is an imaginative and theoretically sophisticated study of how American literary figures at the turn of the twentieth century attempted to grapple with the meaning of things and our problematic relatio…
On the Frontiers of Public History: Kansas City, Here We Come
Review Article| November 01 2005 On the Frontiers of Public History: Kansas City, Here We Come Lisa Jacobson Lisa Jacobson University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2005) 27 (4): 83–85. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2005.27.4.83 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter L…
Standard of Living: The Measure of the Middle Class in Modern America (review)
Standard of Living: The Measure of the Middle Class in Modern America. By Marina Moskowitz. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. xii+300. $45
Recruiting Minority Men Who Have Sex With Men for HIV Research: Results From a 4-City Campaign
We describe the efforts of a 4-city campaign to recruit Black and Hispanic men who have sex with men into an established HIV epidemiological study. The campaign used community organizing principles and a social marketing model that focused on personnel, location, product, costs and benefits, and promotion. The campaign was developed at the community, group, and individual levels to both increase trust and reduce barriers. The proportion of Hispan…
Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood. Steven Mintz
Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (review)
Reviewed by: Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America Lisa Jacobson (bio) Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. By Meg Jacobs . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xii+349. $35. Meg Jacobs's brilliant book presents a major reinterpretation of twentieth-century liberalism. Jacobs argues that "pocketbook politics"—the quest to broaden purchasing power through policie…
Beer Goes to War: T he P olitics of B eer P romotion and P roduction in the S econd W orld W ar
In the Second World War, American brewers launched a massive public relations and advertising campaign to combat a resurgence of prohibitionism. This paper examines how brewers gained the stature of an essential wartime industry—a classification that gave them access to rationed goods denied other industries—despite dry protestations that beer wasted vital foodstuffs. It argues that brewers achieved such success by repoliticizing beer as an emble…
Navigating the Boundaries of Respectability and Desire: Seagram’s Advertising and the Meanings of Moderation after Repeal
This article examines Seagram’s institutional and brand advertising during the 1930s to illuminate how the Canadian distiller often muddied the meanings of moderation and respectability in its quest for legitimacy and mass markets. Even as Seagram’s ads counseled moderation, they also blurred the boundaries between having a good time and having “one too many.” The intended emphasis on the importance of responsible drinking was clear, but Seagram’…
Alcohol: Social Drinking in Cultural Context: By Janet Chrzan
(2014). Alcohol: Social Drinking in Cultural Context: By Janet Chrzan. Food, Culture & Society: Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 521-523
SimWars Simulation Case Book: Emergency Medicine
Erica Hannickel. Empire of Vines: Wine Culture in America
Erica Hannickel’s well-written and provocative study examines how winemaking and grape growing became linked in the American imagination with continental expansion and Manifest Destiny. Focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Hannickel locates these expansionist viticultural discourses in the writings of nurserymen, horticulturists, novelists, and winemakers who hoped the United States would establish a vibrant wine industry and…
Will It Be Wine or Cocktails? The Quest to Build a Mass Market for California Wine after Prohibition
This article examines why wine marketers struggled to build a mass market for American wine from the 1930s to the 1950s. Wine promoters worked to both surmount and accommodate existing preferences for spirits by casting wine both as a base for cocktails and as the budget-friendly alternative to them. Previously marked as either too highbrow or too lowbrow, wine gradually lost its foreignness as merchandisers learned to sell the glamour of wine wi…
Jennifer Le Zotte. From Goodwill to Grunge: A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies
Jennifer Le Zotte’s provocative and engaging book examines how the once marginal and morally suspect enterprise of selling used goods in the United States grew over the course of the twentieth century into a set of profitable multimillion-dollar businesses that attracted customers from across the class spectrum. These secondhand shoppers included the needy, who relied on secondhand goods to make ends meet; the better-off, who scoured thrift store…
Lisa McGirr, The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State . New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2016
Capitalism's Hidden Worlds
Capitalism's Hidden Worlds examines economic activities that occur in the concealed corners of the formal economy. Challenging common conceptions of capitalism as a system of transparent, open markets, essays reveal how capitalism depends upon, adapts to, and gains legitimacy from activities that occur outside the measured and the seen.
Identifying a Safe and Just Corridor for People and the Planet
Keeping the Earth system in a stable and resilient state, to safeguard Earth's life support systems while ensuring that Earth's benefits, risks, and related responsibilities are equitably shared, constitutes the grand challenge for human development in the Anthropocene. Here, we describe a framework that the recently formed Earth Commission will use to define and quantify target ranges for a “safe and just corridor” that meets these goals. Althou…
Reconciling safe planetary targets and planetary justice: Why should social scientists engage with planetary targets
As human activity threatens to make the planet unsafe for humanity and other life forms, scholars are identifying planetary targets set at a safe distance from biophysical thresholds beyond which critical Earth systems may collapse. Yet despite the profound implications that both meeting and transgressing such targets may have for human wellbeing, including the potential for negative trade-offs, there is limited social science analysis that syste…
Achieving a nature- and people-positive future
Despite decades of increasing investment in conservation, we have not succeeded in ''bending the curve'' of biodiversity decline. Efforts to meet new targets and goals for the next three decades risk repeating this outcome due to three factors: neglect of increasing drivers of decline; unrealistic expectations and time frames of biodiversity recovery; and insufficient attention to justice within and between generations and across countries. Our E…
Impacts of meeting minimum access on critical earth systems amidst the Great Inequality
The Sustainable Development Goals aim to improve access to resources and services, reduce environmental degradation, eradicate poverty and reduce inequality. However, the magnitude of the environmental burden that would arise from meeting the needs of the poorest is under debate—especially when compared to much larger burdens from the rich. We show that the ‘Great Acceleration’ of human impacts was characterized by a ‘Great Inequality’ in using a…
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