Denise Lach
Biographic Data
| ID | 330030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denise Lach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denise |
| FAMILY NAME | Lach |
| SIGNATURE | LACH D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oregon State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Social-Ecological Change, Resilience, and Adaptive Capacity in the McKenzie River Valley, Oregon
This study explores perceptions of long-term residents regarding links between governance, landscape, and community change in the McKenzie River Valley (MRV) in western Oregon and provides a general assessment of factors affecting resilience and adaptive capacity. Residents interviewed indicated that dramatic changes driven by market competition, timber industry changes, increased regulation, and rural restructuring have occurred in both the land…
Designing visualization software for super-wicked problems
Designing effective visualization software in the context of super wicked problems includes incorporating understanding of public policy and decision making settings into the software development process. Case study findings presented here show that a problem-driven design approach must include bot h the primary and secondary users of visualization software. The primary lesson learned is that extending the scope of the problem domain beyond the e…
The Value of Practice-Based Knowledge
Increasing recognition of the value of practice-based or experiential knowledge in natural resource management justifies the creation of a new category of articles in Society & Natural Resources that we are calling Practice-Based Knowledge (PBK). The rationale for focusing on PBK is due to its key role in the emergence of hybrid governance institutions across state, market, and civil society, understanding the complexity of dynamic socioecologica…
Exploring stakeholders’ attitudes and beliefs regarding behaviors that prevent the spread of invasive species
The Theory of Planned Behavior was used as a framework for investigating recreationists' attitudes, subjective norms, and behavioral control beliefs pertaining to behaviors that reduce the spread of invasive species. A series of focus groups comprised of gardeners, fishers, hunters, and boaters was convened in Oregon, USA. Findings indicate six belief barriers to changing leisure behaviors. These are the attitudes that: (1) behaviors, such as usi…
Public understanding of science and technology embedded in complex institutional settings
We use a constructivist analysis to describe how citizens learn and integrate highly technical scientific information about a new technology (bioremediation) within the context of a risk-based relationship with a federal agency in their own backyards. We engaged members of the general public in a workshop process where they produced a consensus report that describes how bioremediation works, characterizes the scientific issues not yet addressed, …
Gender Differences in Support for Scientific Involvement in U.S. Environmental Policy
Many studies have documented gender differences in attitudes toward and experiences with science. Compared to men, for example, women are less likely to study science and to pursue careers in science-related fields. Given these findings, should we expect gender differences in support for scientific involvement in U.S. environmental policy? This study empirically examines the relationship of gender to attitudes toward science and preferred roles o…
Ideology and scientific credibility: Environmental policy in the American Pacific Northwest
In the later years of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century, there has been an increasing emphasis among many decision-makers, interest groups, and citizens about the importance of science-based environmental policy. The assumption is that scientists can facilitate the resolution of public environmental decisions by providing scientific information to policymakers and the public, and by becoming more directly involved in policy …
GIS Technology in Natural Resource Management: Process as a Tool of Change
Natural resource management in the United States has experienced dramatic change since landmark legislation in the 1960s and 1970s ultimately brought about high-visibility policy decisions on the public lands of the Pacific Northwest in the 1990s. The socio-political trajectory of that change has moved from institutionally imposed, agency-based decisions toward greater public involvement, increasingly calling upon new technologies to analyse data…
Weather Forecasts are for Wimps: Why Water Resource Managers Do Not Use Climate Forecasts
The role of scientists in the environmental policy process: A case study from the American west
An integrated impact assessment of the effects of climate change on the Pacific Northwest salmon fishery
Typically natural resource managers do not consider the implications of climate change even though natural resources depend on specific climatic conditions. This omission stems from the uncertainty associated with climate-change research, and an inability to apply that research to decision-making. This paper suggests that an impact assessment approach can be used to assess the impact that climate change may have on natural resource decisions demo…
Introduction: Environmental Conflict
Environmental conflict appears to be increasing exponentially. Natural resource management disputes over preservation or 'wise use' rage in forests, river systems, rangelands, and mineral lands. Locating hazardous waste sites is so contentious that there is only one site in the country that accepts the high-level waste produced everywhere else in the United State. Existing waste sites are closing their gates to all but local waste. Low income and…
Gender Differences in Clerical Workers' Disputes over Tasks, Interpersonal Treatment, and Emotion
Although more than a quarter of American women work in clerical and administrative support jobs, little is known about the day-to-day experience of clerical work. We explore workplace dispute resolution among women and men clerical workers, focusing on how they define and resolve “personality conflicts.” “Personality conflict” is a label women clerical workers tend to use more than men to describe disputes over how tasks should be accomplished, i…
Gender and Workplace Dispute Resolution: A Conceptual and Theoretical Model
This essay introduces a conceptual and theoretical model for understanding how dispute resolution in the workplace contributes to gender differences in employment. We conceptualize workplace disputes as having three components: origins, processes, and outcomes. We synthesize theory and existing empirical findings in several disciplines to examine how these three components are patterned by gender roles, sex segregation in jobs, and institutionali…
Sex Differences in Attitudes toward Nuclear War
This research considers the enduring, cross-cultural belief that women oppose war more than men do and seeks to disentangle it from competing explanations of anti-war attitudes. Focusing on correlates of pessimism and optimism about the imminence and survivability of nuclear war, support is found for hypotheses concerning psychic numbing, attenuated future plans, and political orientations, but not for hypotheses concerning hedonism and various d…
Gender and Workplace Dispute Resolution: A Conceptual and Theoretical Model
This essay introduces a conceptual and theoretical model for understanding how dispute resolution in the workplace contributes to gender differences in employment. We conceptualize workplace disputes as having three components: origins, processes, and outcomes. We synthesize theory and existing empirical findings in several disciplines to examine how these three components are patterned by gender roles, sex segregation in jobs, and institutionali…
The role of scientists in the environmental policy process: A case study from the American west
Gender Differences in Clerical Workers' Disputes over Tasks, Interpersonal Treatment, and Emotion
Although more than a quarter of American women work in clerical and administrative support jobs, little is known about the day-to-day experience of clerical work. We explore workplace dispute resolution among women and men clerical workers, focusing on how they define and resolve “personality conflicts.” “Personality conflict” is a label women clerical workers tend to use more than men to describe disputes over how tasks should be accomplished, i…
Sex Differences in Attitudes toward Nuclear War
This research considers the enduring, cross-cultural belief that women oppose war more than men do and seeks to disentangle it from competing explanations of anti-war attitudes. Focusing on correlates of pessimism and optimism about the imminence and survivability of nuclear war, support is found for hypotheses concerning psychic numbing, attenuated future plans, and political orientations, but not for hypotheses concerning hedonism and various d…
The Value of Practice-Based Knowledge
Increasing recognition of the value of practice-based or experiential knowledge in natural resource management justifies the creation of a new category of articles in Society & Natural Resources that we are calling Practice-Based Knowledge (PBK). The rationale for focusing on PBK is due to its key role in the emergence of hybrid governance institutions across state, market, and civil society, understanding the complexity of dynamic socioecologica…
Exploring stakeholders’ attitudes and beliefs regarding behaviors that prevent the spread of invasive species
The Theory of Planned Behavior was used as a framework for investigating recreationists' attitudes, subjective norms, and behavioral control beliefs pertaining to behaviors that reduce the spread of invasive species. A series of focus groups comprised of gardeners, fishers, hunters, and boaters was convened in Oregon, USA. Findings indicate six belief barriers to changing leisure behaviors. These are the attitudes that: (1) behaviors, such as usi…
Introduction: Environmental Conflict
Environmental conflict appears to be increasing exponentially. Natural resource management disputes over preservation or 'wise use' rage in forests, river systems, rangelands, and mineral lands. Locating hazardous waste sites is so contentious that there is only one site in the country that accepts the high-level waste produced everywhere else in the United State. Existing waste sites are closing their gates to all but local waste. Low income and…
Sex Differences in Attitudes toward Nuclear War
This research considers the enduring, cross-cultural belief that women oppose war more than men do and seeks to disentangle it from competing explanations of anti-war attitudes. Focusing on correlates of pessimism and optimism about the imminence and survivability of nuclear war, support is found for hypotheses concerning psychic numbing, attenuated future plans, and political orientations, but not for hypotheses concerning hedonism and various d…
Gender Differences in Clerical Workers' Disputes over Tasks, Interpersonal Treatment, and Emotion
Although more than a quarter of American women work in clerical and administrative support jobs, little is known about the day-to-day experience of clerical work. We explore workplace dispute resolution among women and men clerical workers, focusing on how they define and resolve “personality conflicts.” “Personality conflict” is a label women clerical workers tend to use more than men to describe disputes over how tasks should be accomplished, i…
Gender and Workplace Dispute Resolution: A Conceptual and Theoretical Model
This essay introduces a conceptual and theoretical model for understanding how dispute resolution in the workplace contributes to gender differences in employment. We conceptualize workplace disputes as having three components: origins, processes, and outcomes. We synthesize theory and existing empirical findings in several disciplines to examine how these three components are patterned by gender roles, sex segregation in jobs, and institutionali…
Introduction: Environmental Conflict
Environmental conflict appears to be increasing exponentially. Natural resource management disputes over preservation or 'wise use' rage in forests, river systems, rangelands, and mineral lands. Locating hazardous waste sites is so contentious that there is only one site in the country that accepts the high-level waste produced everywhere else in the United State. Existing waste sites are closing their gates to all but local waste. Low income and…
An integrated impact assessment of the effects of climate change on the Pacific Northwest salmon fishery
Typically natural resource managers do not consider the implications of climate change even though natural resources depend on specific climatic conditions. This omission stems from the uncertainty associated with climate-change research, and an inability to apply that research to decision-making. This paper suggests that an impact assessment approach can be used to assess the impact that climate change may have on natural resource decisions demo…
The role of scientists in the environmental policy process: A case study from the American west
Weather Forecasts are for Wimps: Why Water Resource Managers Do Not Use Climate Forecasts
Ideology and scientific credibility: Environmental policy in the American Pacific Northwest
In the later years of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century, there has been an increasing emphasis among many decision-makers, interest groups, and citizens about the importance of science-based environmental policy. The assumption is that scientists can facilitate the resolution of public environmental decisions by providing scientific information to policymakers and the public, and by becoming more directly involved in policy …
GIS Technology in Natural Resource Management: Process as a Tool of Change
Natural resource management in the United States has experienced dramatic change since landmark legislation in the 1960s and 1970s ultimately brought about high-visibility policy decisions on the public lands of the Pacific Northwest in the 1990s. The socio-political trajectory of that change has moved from institutionally imposed, agency-based decisions toward greater public involvement, increasingly calling upon new technologies to analyse data…
Public understanding of science and technology embedded in complex institutional settings
We use a constructivist analysis to describe how citizens learn and integrate highly technical scientific information about a new technology (bioremediation) within the context of a risk-based relationship with a federal agency in their own backyards. We engaged members of the general public in a workshop process where they produced a consensus report that describes how bioremediation works, characterizes the scientific issues not yet addressed, …
Gender Differences in Support for Scientific Involvement in U.S. Environmental Policy
Many studies have documented gender differences in attitudes toward and experiences with science. Compared to men, for example, women are less likely to study science and to pursue careers in science-related fields. Given these findings, should we expect gender differences in support for scientific involvement in U.S. environmental policy? This study empirically examines the relationship of gender to attitudes toward science and preferred roles o…
Exploring stakeholders’ attitudes and beliefs regarding behaviors that prevent the spread of invasive species
The Theory of Planned Behavior was used as a framework for investigating recreationists' attitudes, subjective norms, and behavioral control beliefs pertaining to behaviors that reduce the spread of invasive species. A series of focus groups comprised of gardeners, fishers, hunters, and boaters was convened in Oregon, USA. Findings indicate six belief barriers to changing leisure behaviors. These are the attitudes that: (1) behaviors, such as usi…
The Value of Practice-Based Knowledge
Increasing recognition of the value of practice-based or experiential knowledge in natural resource management justifies the creation of a new category of articles in Society & Natural Resources that we are calling Practice-Based Knowledge (PBK). The rationale for focusing on PBK is due to its key role in the emergence of hybrid governance institutions across state, market, and civil society, understanding the complexity of dynamic socioecologica…
Designing visualization software for super-wicked problems
Designing effective visualization software in the context of super wicked problems includes incorporating understanding of public policy and decision making settings into the software development process. Case study findings presented here show that a problem-driven design approach must include bot h the primary and secondary users of visualization software. The primary lesson learned is that extending the scope of the problem domain beyond the e…
Social-Ecological Change, Resilience, and Adaptive Capacity in the McKenzie River Valley, Oregon
This study explores perceptions of long-term residents regarding links between governance, landscape, and community change in the McKenzie River Valley (MRV) in western Oregon and provides a general assessment of factors affecting resilience and adaptive capacity. Residents interviewed indicated that dramatic changes driven by market competition, timber industry changes, increased regulation, and rural restructuring have occurred in both the land…
Political science (14 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Natural resource (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (4 works)