Emily Woodhouse
Biographic Data
| ID | 187477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Woodhouse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Woodhouse |
| SIGNATURE | WOODHOUSE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-8248-2143 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1918 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Conceptualizing irreconcilable disagreements in the nature futures framework over intrinsic and instrumental values
1. The nature futures framework (NFF) is a tool, adopted by IPBES, used to design scenarios which explicitly trade-off three ways of valuing nature: instrumental, intrinsic, and relational. In its current format, the NFF is depicted as a triangle, with each value perspective occupying the extreme corner node, and a smooth continuum of potential perspectives along each edge. 2. In this paper I question whether a continuum/gradient is the proper wa…
Adam Briggle, A Field Guide to Climate Change: Understanding the Problems
New pathways for women’s empowerment in pastoralist Maasai households, Tanzania
Mobile phones and wrong numbers: How Maasai agro-pastoralists form and use accidental social ties in East Africa
Baird, T. D., J. T. McCabe, E. Woodhouse, I. Rumas, S. Sankeni, and G. O. Saitoti. 2021. Mobile phones and wrong numbers: how Maasai agro-pastoralists form and use accidental social ties in East Africa. Ecology and Society 26(2):41. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12528-260241
Mobile phones and women's empowerment in Maasai communities: How men shape women's social relations and access to phones
Mobile phones have been heralded by many as promising new tools to empower women throughout the Global South. However, some have asserted that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) may serve to amplify disparities between more powerful and less powerful people. Few studies have examined which women stand to benefit and under what conditions. This study seeks to better understand the relationships between mobile phones and women’s …
Well-being and conservation: Diversity and change in visions of a good life among the Maasai of northern Tanzania
Woodhouse, E., and J. T. McCabe. 2018. Well-being and conservation: diversity and change in visions of a good life among the Maasai of northern Tanzania. Ecology and Society 23(1):43. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09986-230143
Living a good life: Conceptualizations of well-being in a conservation context in Cambodia
Beauchamp, E., E. Woodhouse, T. Clements, and E. J. Milner-Gulland. 2018. “Living a good life”: conceptualizations of well-being in a conservation context in Cambodia. Ecology and Society 23(2):28. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10049-230228
What are the effects of nature conservation on human well-being? A systematic map of empirical evidence from developing countries
Slowing the pace of technological change
I share the concerns raised in Vogt’s commentary, ‘How Fast Should We Innovate?’ Controlling the pace of technological change is one of the epochal challenges of this era, and I offer suggestions t
Guiding principles for evaluating the impacts of conservation interventions on human well-being
Measures of socio-economic impacts of conservation interventions have largely been restricted to externally defined indicators focused on income, which do not reflect people's priorities. Using a holistic, locally grounded conceptualization of human well-being instead provides a way to understand the multi-faceted impacts of conservation on aspects of people's lives that they value. Conservationists are engaging with well-being for both pragmatic…
Local experiences and contested meanings of the Chinese 'grain for green' land conversion programme in an agro-pastoralist Tibetan community
The Sloping Land Conversion Programme (SLCP or 'Grain for Green') forms one part in a suite of programmes focused on 'ecological construction' in minority areas of Western China. It aims to increase vegetation and reduce poverty by providing payments to households for retiring agricultural and grazing land to plant trees and grass. This paper examines how SLCP is being experienced and perceived in one agro-pastoral Tibetan community in Sichuan Pr…
Religious Relationships with the Environment in a Tibetan Rural Community: Interactions and Contrasts with Popular Notions of Indigenous Environmentalism
Representations of Green Tibetans connected to Buddhism and indigenous wisdom have been deployed by a variety of actors and persist in popular consciousness. Through interviews, participatory mapping and observation, we explored how these ideas relate to people's notions about the natural environment in a rural community on the Eastern Tibetan plateau, in Sichuan Province, China. We found people to be orienting themselves towards the environment …
The Lessons of Katrina for Intelligent Public Decision Making
Was the Hurricane Katrina disaster an aberration, or did it emerge from decision-making processes similar to those governing other public outcomes? Is it more reasonable to expect post-disaster analyses to lead to systematic learning and improved policy, or not to change very much? Most generally, what can be learned about appropriate expertise and usable knowledge from the Katrina experience? I argue that many of the same processes and instituti…
Green Chemistry as Social Movement
Are there circumstances under which scientists and engineers doing their ordinary jobs can be thought of as participants in a social movement? The technoscientists analyzed in this article are at the forefront of a new way of doing chemistry; they are attempting to redesign chemical products and synthesis pathways to significantly reduce health effects and environmental damage from industrial chemicals. Green chemistry practitioners and entrepren…
Science Studies and Activism: Possibilities and Problems for Reconstructivist Agendas
Might a rapprochement be desirable and possible between the more academic and the more activist wings of STS? What can each learn from the other? A promising trajectory for this purpose may be to reinterpret and extend research in the constructivist tradition, building on recent work that appears to constitute the beginnings of a reconstructivist scholarly tradition. Some of the necessary work would be explicitly prescriptive: given that technolo…
Cultural risks of technological innovation: The case of school violence
Affluent nations have instituted various systems for heading off some of the worst consequences that new technologies can pose for the environment and for human health/safety. Action to protect against sociocultural risks from innovation is uncommon, however, despite the fact that intangible aspects of social life are crucial in determining whether humans experience their lives as meaningful and satisfying. To help raise the visibility of the soc…
Curbing overconsumption: Challenge for ethically responsible engineering
One of the toughest and most important challenges facing technological civilization is excessive consumption in affluent societies. Scholars in the fields of design, industrial ecology and environmental ethics have begun dealing with aspects of over-consumption. With selected exceptions, however, engineering ethicists have not yet paid close attention to the matter. In this article, I attempt to catalyse such inquiry
When expert advice works, and when it does not
Both experts and users of expertise fail to grasp the role of expertise in decision making. Of course, expert advice is essential in complex human activities, but those who follow that advice also sometimes regret it. Under what conditions does expert advice and action tend to produce satisfactory outcomes? Recent studies of technological controversies and governmental regulatory procedures reveal some of the conditions under which expert advice …
Reframing incrementalism: A constructive response to the critics
Collapse of an Industry: Nuclear Power and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy
Is Large-Scale Military R&D Defensible Theoretically
Political decision theory provides a framework for evaluating three approaches to military research and development: offensive weaponry intended for deterrence, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) and other weaponry intended fordefense, and cutbacks designed to slow the research and development (R&D) treadmill. Large-scale R&D does not protect against most of the risks facing national security. Nor does an R&D-intensive approach provide the fl…
Risk, Uncertainty, and Social Organization
Planetary Governance and Biopolitics
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Presidential Management of Science and Technology: The Johnson Presidency. Henry Lambright
External Influences on Productivity: Epa's Implementation of Tsca
Discussions of governmental productivity typically focus on managerial improvements within bureaucratic organizations. A more balanced, political approach to governmental efficiency and effectiveness would give equal emphasis to productivity obstacles and opportunities In an agency's legislative mandate and working environment. EPA's implementation of the Toxic Substances Control Act illustrates how productivity can be signiflcantly affected by m…
Science Studies and Activism: Possibilities and Problems for Reconstructivist Agendas
Might a rapprochement be desirable and possible between the more academic and the more activist wings of STS? What can each learn from the other? A promising trajectory for this purpose may be to reinterpret and extend research in the constructivist tradition, building on recent work that appears to constitute the beginnings of a reconstructivist scholarly tradition. Some of the necessary work would be explicitly prescriptive: given that technolo…
Reframing incrementalism: A constructive response to the critics
Well-being and conservation: Diversity and change in visions of a good life among the Maasai of northern Tanzania
Woodhouse, E., and J. T. McCabe. 2018. Well-being and conservation: diversity and change in visions of a good life among the Maasai of northern Tanzania. Ecology and Society 23(1):43. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09986-230143
Religious Relationships with the Environment in a Tibetan Rural Community: Interactions and Contrasts with Popular Notions of Indigenous Environmentalism
Representations of Green Tibetans connected to Buddhism and indigenous wisdom have been deployed by a variety of actors and persist in popular consciousness. Through interviews, participatory mapping and observation, we explored how these ideas relate to people's notions about the natural environment in a rural community on the Eastern Tibetan plateau, in Sichuan Province, China. We found people to be orienting themselves towards the environment …
Green Chemistry as Social Movement
Are there circumstances under which scientists and engineers doing their ordinary jobs can be thought of as participants in a social movement? The technoscientists analyzed in this article are at the forefront of a new way of doing chemistry; they are attempting to redesign chemical products and synthesis pathways to significantly reduce health effects and environmental damage from industrial chemicals. Green chemistry practitioners and entrepren…
Mobile phones and women's empowerment in Maasai communities: How men shape women's social relations and access to phones
Mobile phones have been heralded by many as promising new tools to empower women throughout the Global South. However, some have asserted that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) may serve to amplify disparities between more powerful and less powerful people. Few studies have examined which women stand to benefit and under what conditions. This study seeks to better understand the relationships between mobile phones and women’s …
Re-Visioning the Future of the Third World: An Ecological Perspective on Development
Until recently, the commonly accepted notion of human social development held that static “traditional” societies passed through a dynamic transitional period and came to rest again as “modern” industrial societies. Such simplistic stage and linear development theories have now been formally superseded by Huntington's formulation of development and decay as concurrent processes with no necessary endstate. There remains, however, an implicit assum…
New pathways for women’s empowerment in pastoralist Maasai households, Tanzania
Living a good life: Conceptualizations of well-being in a conservation context in Cambodia
Beauchamp, E., E. Woodhouse, T. Clements, and E. J. Milner-Gulland. 2018. “Living a good life”: conceptualizations of well-being in a conservation context in Cambodia. Ecology and Society 23(2):28. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10049-230228
Local experiences and contested meanings of the Chinese 'grain for green' land conversion programme in an agro-pastoralist Tibetan community
The Sloping Land Conversion Programme (SLCP or 'Grain for Green') forms one part in a suite of programmes focused on 'ecological construction' in minority areas of Western China. It aims to increase vegetation and reduce poverty by providing payments to households for retiring agricultural and grazing land to plant trees and grass. This paper examines how SLCP is being experienced and perceived in one agro-pastoral Tibetan community in Sichuan Pr…
Is Large-Scale Military R&D Defensible Theoretically
Political decision theory provides a framework for evaluating three approaches to military research and development: offensive weaponry intended for deterrence, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) and other weaponry intended fordefense, and cutbacks designed to slow the research and development (R&D) treadmill. Large-scale R&D does not protect against most of the risks facing national security. Nor does an R&D-intensive approach provide the fl…
External Influences on Productivity: Epa's Implementation of Tsca
Discussions of governmental productivity typically focus on managerial improvements within bureaucratic organizations. A more balanced, political approach to governmental efficiency and effectiveness would give equal emphasis to productivity obstacles and opportunities In an agency's legislative mandate and working environment. EPA's implementation of the Toxic Substances Control Act illustrates how productivity can be signiflcantly affected by m…
Too Hot to Handle? Social and Policy Issues in the Management of Radioactive Wastes
Function and Method in the Teaching of History
Conservation and Criminology
The Place of Woodrow Wilson in American Politics: An Estimate
Research Article| January 01 1922 The Place of Woodrow Wilson in American Politics: An Estimate Edward J. Woodhouse Edward J. Woodhouse Smith College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1922) 21 (1): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-21-1-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Edward J. Woodhouse; The Place of Woodrow Wilson in Ameri…
The Challenge to Training in Politics
Research Article| July 01 1926 The Challenge to Training in Politics Edward James Woodhouse Edward James Woodhouse University of North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1926) 25 (3): 223–239. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-25-3-223 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Edward James Woodhouse; The Challenge to Training in Polit…
Confirmation of the presence of 11-hydroxy- 9-tetrahydrocannabinol in the urine of marijuana smokers
Confirmation of the presence of 11-hydroxy- 9-tetrahydrocannabinol in the urine of marijuana smokers. E J WoodhouseCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.62.10.1394 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Re-Visioning the Future of the Third World: An Ecological Perspective on Development
Until recently, the commonly accepted notion of human social development held that static “traditional” societies passed through a dynamic transitional period and came to rest again as “modern” industrial societies. Such simplistic stage and linear development theories have now been formally superseded by Huntington's formulation of development and decay as concurrent processes with no necessary endstate. There remains, however, an implicit assum…
Too Hot to Handle? Social and Policy Issues in the Management of Radioactive Wastes
External Influences on Productivity: Epa's Implementation of Tsca
Discussions of governmental productivity typically focus on managerial improvements within bureaucratic organizations. A more balanced, political approach to governmental efficiency and effectiveness would give equal emphasis to productivity obstacles and opportunities In an agency's legislative mandate and working environment. EPA's implementation of the Toxic Substances Control Act illustrates how productivity can be signiflcantly affected by m…
Presidential Management of Science and Technology: The Johnson Presidency. Henry Lambright
Planetary Governance and Biopolitics
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Risk, Uncertainty, and Social Organization
Collapse of an Industry: Nuclear Power and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy
Is Large-Scale Military R&D Defensible Theoretically
Political decision theory provides a framework for evaluating three approaches to military research and development: offensive weaponry intended for deterrence, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) and other weaponry intended fordefense, and cutbacks designed to slow the research and development (R&D) treadmill. Large-scale R&D does not protect against most of the risks facing national security. Nor does an R&D-intensive approach provide the fl…
Reframing incrementalism: A constructive response to the critics
When expert advice works, and when it does not
Both experts and users of expertise fail to grasp the role of expertise in decision making. Of course, expert advice is essential in complex human activities, but those who follow that advice also sometimes regret it. Under what conditions does expert advice and action tend to produce satisfactory outcomes? Recent studies of technological controversies and governmental regulatory procedures reveal some of the conditions under which expert advice …
Cultural risks of technological innovation: The case of school violence
Affluent nations have instituted various systems for heading off some of the worst consequences that new technologies can pose for the environment and for human health/safety. Action to protect against sociocultural risks from innovation is uncommon, however, despite the fact that intangible aspects of social life are crucial in determining whether humans experience their lives as meaningful and satisfying. To help raise the visibility of the soc…
Curbing overconsumption: Challenge for ethically responsible engineering
One of the toughest and most important challenges facing technological civilization is excessive consumption in affluent societies. Scholars in the fields of design, industrial ecology and environmental ethics have begun dealing with aspects of over-consumption. With selected exceptions, however, engineering ethicists have not yet paid close attention to the matter. In this article, I attempt to catalyse such inquiry
Science Studies and Activism: Possibilities and Problems for Reconstructivist Agendas
Might a rapprochement be desirable and possible between the more academic and the more activist wings of STS? What can each learn from the other? A promising trajectory for this purpose may be to reinterpret and extend research in the constructivist tradition, building on recent work that appears to constitute the beginnings of a reconstructivist scholarly tradition. Some of the necessary work would be explicitly prescriptive: given that technolo…
Green Chemistry as Social Movement
Are there circumstances under which scientists and engineers doing their ordinary jobs can be thought of as participants in a social movement? The technoscientists analyzed in this article are at the forefront of a new way of doing chemistry; they are attempting to redesign chemical products and synthesis pathways to significantly reduce health effects and environmental damage from industrial chemicals. Green chemistry practitioners and entrepren…
The Lessons of Katrina for Intelligent Public Decision Making
Was the Hurricane Katrina disaster an aberration, or did it emerge from decision-making processes similar to those governing other public outcomes? Is it more reasonable to expect post-disaster analyses to lead to systematic learning and improved policy, or not to change very much? Most generally, what can be learned about appropriate expertise and usable knowledge from the Katrina experience? I argue that many of the same processes and instituti…
Guiding principles for evaluating the impacts of conservation interventions on human well-being
Measures of socio-economic impacts of conservation interventions have largely been restricted to externally defined indicators focused on income, which do not reflect people's priorities. Using a holistic, locally grounded conceptualization of human well-being instead provides a way to understand the multi-faceted impacts of conservation on aspects of people's lives that they value. Conservationists are engaging with well-being for both pragmatic…
Local experiences and contested meanings of the Chinese 'grain for green' land conversion programme in an agro-pastoralist Tibetan community
The Sloping Land Conversion Programme (SLCP or 'Grain for Green') forms one part in a suite of programmes focused on 'ecological construction' in minority areas of Western China. It aims to increase vegetation and reduce poverty by providing payments to households for retiring agricultural and grazing land to plant trees and grass. This paper examines how SLCP is being experienced and perceived in one agro-pastoral Tibetan community in Sichuan Pr…
Religious Relationships with the Environment in a Tibetan Rural Community: Interactions and Contrasts with Popular Notions of Indigenous Environmentalism
Representations of Green Tibetans connected to Buddhism and indigenous wisdom have been deployed by a variety of actors and persist in popular consciousness. Through interviews, participatory mapping and observation, we explored how these ideas relate to people's notions about the natural environment in a rural community on the Eastern Tibetan plateau, in Sichuan Province, China. We found people to be orienting themselves towards the environment …
What are the effects of nature conservation on human well-being? A systematic map of empirical evidence from developing countries
Slowing the pace of technological change
I share the concerns raised in Vogt’s commentary, ‘How Fast Should We Innovate?’ Controlling the pace of technological change is one of the epochal challenges of this era, and I offer suggestions t
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