Naomi Krogman
Biographic Data
| ID | 331859 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naomi Krogman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naomi |
| FAMILY NAME | Krogman |
| SIGNATURE | KROGMAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6930-9538 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The “Locavore” Chef in Alberta: A Situated Social Practice Analysis
A sub-culture of “locavore” chefs is playing a critical but under-examined role in addressing concerns about the conventional, industrialized food system by re-localizing the sourcing, processing, and preparation of food. The values that underlie why certain chefs decide to work in this niche market, their strategies to overcome the situational challenges of sourcing locally produced food, and the ways they develop the knowledge and skills needed…
Putting Sustainability into Practice: Applications and Advances in Research on Sustainable Consumption
Social practice theories and research on sustainable consumption
Social practice theories are the subject of much discussion among those who study sustainability. Using social practice theories to analyze how routinized activity can contribute to unsustainability problems has resulted in a great deal of stimulating scholarship. In this introductory chapter, we begin by venturing back to some of the early work on social practices and offer an account of key theoretical contributions to the contemporary study of…
Dead Ducks and Dirty Oil: Media Representations and Environmental Solutions
In April 2008, more than 1,600 migrating ducks died after landing on a toxic tailings pond in the Oil Sands region of northeastern Alberta. The responsible company was found guilty and paid the largest environmental fine in Alberta's history. To assess the nature of this environmental focusing event, we identified 747 newspaper articles that covered this event, published between January 2008 and June 2011. Each article was coded based on date of …
Learning from the Pros: The Role of ISSRM, SNR , and IASNR in Our Careers
The best way to find oneself is in the service of others. (Ghandi) If we know anything as social scientists, we know we do not become who we are as professionals in a vacuum, and we are not tabula
Bureaucratic Slippage and Environmental Offset Policies: The Case of Wetland Management in Alberta
Environmental trading programs are seen as promising tools for fostering sustainable development, yet little is know about how decision-making practices in these emerging policy spaces influence program outcomes. This study quantifies wetland compensation outcomes in Alberta, Canada, and compares these outcomes to statements made in government-issued compensation guidelines. Contrary to guideline intent, we found a strong tendency to skip over we…
Downshifting: An Exploration of Motivations, Quality of Life, and Environmental Practices
“Downshifting,” reducing work hours, thereby income, to increase leisure time, offers a possible individual‐level solution to the stress many experience from long working hours and work intensification. Recently, some have argued that an increase in leisure time with a reduction in income might also foster pro‐environmental lifestyles as has been demonstrated for the “voluntary simplicity” movement. Quantitative research on the relationship betwe…
Sustainable Consumption and the Importance of Neighbourhood: A Central City/Suburb Comparison
This paper applies urban and environmental sociological theory to survey data on self-reported sustainable consumption practices, using a matched sample of central city and suburban residents in Edmonton, Alberta. We use cluster analysis to create an ordinal typology of four types of consumers, conduct an analyses of variance to characterize the resultant clusters, and perform logistic regression to predict the net effect of urban and neighborhoo…
The “balance discourse”: A case study of power and wetland management
Cumulative Effects Assessment: Linking Social, Ecological, and Governance Dimensions
Weber, M., N. Krogman, and T. Antoniuk. 2012. Cumulative effects assessment: linking social, ecological, and governance dimensions. Ecology and Society 17(2): 22. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04597-170222
Social Thresholds and their Translation into Social-ecological Management Practices
The objective of this paper is to provide a preliminary discussion of how to improve our conceptualization of social thresholds using (1) a more sociological analysis of social resilience, and (2) results from research carried out in collaboration with the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations of the Yukon Territory, Canada. Our sociological analysis of the concept of resilience begins with a review of the literature followed by placement of the c…
A Revolution Reconsidered? Examining the Practice of Qualitative Research in Feminist Scholarship
One of feminism’s most notable objectives is to revolutionize the practice of empirical inquiry. Many feminist scholars have advocated the adoption of qualitative research methods based on standpoint epistemology as a means of reducing power imbalances and giving voice to participants. However, there has been little attempt to systematically address the extent to which qualitative methods have been integrated into feminist social science research…
Gender as contradiction: From dichotomies to diversity in natural resource extraction
Powerful or Just Plain Power-Full? A Power Analysis of Impact and Benefit Agreements in Canada’s North
Impact and benefit agreements (IBAs) between natural resource developers and Aboriginal communities are increasingly portrayed as viable approaches to assure Aboriginal people will reap economic benefits of resource extraction in their traditional territories. Drawing from existing literature about the social context of IBA negotiations, especially in Northern Canada, the authors’ analysis contributes to the study of negotiated agreements by usin…
Should Academics Advocate on Environmental Issues
Academic advocacy involves advancing convincingly reasoned arguments that are supported by research results and academic expertise. However, academics must recognize that their notions of “good” are context dependent. Advocacy is an important and useful service of the university and failure to advocate undermines the social relevance of academia. Nonetheless, advocacy can have personal cost for the advocate, and we consider it appropriate that in…
Towards a sociology of consumerism
Despite concern over the environmental impacts of consumerism, there is a little theoretical coherence into the topic. We present a review of theoretical work from the social sciences to move towards a sociology of consumerism. Few sociological theories address sustainability so we draw from a broad array of literature from Baudrillard (1998) [Baudrillard, J. (1998) The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures. London, UK: Sage] to Veblen (1994) [V…
My Grandfather Would Roll Over in His Grave: Family Farming and Tree Plantations on Farmland
In this paper we hypothesize that farmers with a stronger valuation of family farming will be more resistant to converting farmland to tree plantations. Our survey data analysis from 106 farmers in northern Alberta reveals that general opposition to trees on farmland is the strongest predictor of farmers' resistance to the establishment of poplar tree plantations on privately-owned land. Valuation of family farming is the strongest determinant of…
Critical Analysis of the Relationship between Local Ownership and Community Resiliency
Collectively, current resource-development literature has given little attention to organizational features of ownership as important variables in community resilience. By drawing from six local buyout cases in Canada's forest sector, we reveal the complexity and numerous constraints on local ownership and expose a more nuanced context than most sociologists tend to consider. Our findings suggest that the meaning of local ownership and community …
Corporate "Bail-Outs" and Local "Buyouts: Pathways to Community Forestry
In the early 1990s, two Canadian newsprint mills formerly owned by large corporations were purchased locally through management or employee/management buyouts. This effectively established local control and decision making over mill and forestry operations for substantial amounts of land in Ontario and Manitoba. Over the last decade there has been considerable discussion in the literature regarding community forestry. Local ownership and control …
Social Consequences of Employee/Management Buyouts: Two Canadian Examples From the Forest Sector
Local control of natural resource processing facilities in small rural communities is often viewed as beneficial to community development. This paper employs social impact assessment tools to examine the social and economic effects of change in the ownership of forest products mills in two communities. Our analysis documents (1) the degree to which local ownership of the new, locally owned corporations led to local reinvestment of profits, and (2…
Communities, Policy and Chronic Technological Disasters
This article argues that chronic technological disasters are best viewed as processes rather than as events. Chronic technological disasters are embedded in a variety of decisions and policies that regulate, or fail to regulate, the process that results in what comes to be defined, through social processes, as a technological disaster. We present the argument for examining chronic technological disasters as policy processes and examine stages of …
Sociology and the environment: An analysis of journal coverage
Frame disputes in environmental controversies: The case of wetland regulations in Louisiana
Stakeholder groups’ arguments for or against regulations represent frames, or versions of reality and visions of solutions. Frame effectiveness, or the ability of a group convincingly to convey its grievances, increases its opportunities to gain valuable resources such as legitimacy, money, facilities, and labor to apply to its agenda for change. This paper uses the constructionist perspective to describe the basic frames advanced by each major g…
Gender as contradiction: From dichotomies to diversity in natural resource extraction
Downshifting: An Exploration of Motivations, Quality of Life, and Environmental Practices
“Downshifting,” reducing work hours, thereby income, to increase leisure time, offers a possible individual‐level solution to the stress many experience from long working hours and work intensification. Recently, some have argued that an increase in leisure time with a reduction in income might also foster pro‐environmental lifestyles as has been demonstrated for the “voluntary simplicity” movement. Quantitative research on the relationship betwe…
Critical Analysis of the Relationship between Local Ownership and Community Resiliency
Collectively, current resource-development literature has given little attention to organizational features of ownership as important variables in community resilience. By drawing from six local buyout cases in Canada's forest sector, we reveal the complexity and numerous constraints on local ownership and expose a more nuanced context than most sociologists tend to consider. Our findings suggest that the meaning of local ownership and community …
Frame disputes in environmental controversies: The case of wetland regulations in Louisiana
Stakeholder groups’ arguments for or against regulations represent frames, or versions of reality and visions of solutions. Frame effectiveness, or the ability of a group convincingly to convey its grievances, increases its opportunities to gain valuable resources such as legitimacy, money, facilities, and labor to apply to its agenda for change. This paper uses the constructionist perspective to describe the basic frames advanced by each major g…
A Revolution Reconsidered? Examining the Practice of Qualitative Research in Feminist Scholarship
One of feminism’s most notable objectives is to revolutionize the practice of empirical inquiry. Many feminist scholars have advocated the adoption of qualitative research methods based on standpoint epistemology as a means of reducing power imbalances and giving voice to participants. However, there has been little attempt to systematically address the extent to which qualitative methods have been integrated into feminist social science research…
My Grandfather Would Roll Over in His Grave: Family Farming and Tree Plantations on Farmland
In this paper we hypothesize that farmers with a stronger valuation of family farming will be more resistant to converting farmland to tree plantations. Our survey data analysis from 106 farmers in northern Alberta reveals that general opposition to trees on farmland is the strongest predictor of farmers' resistance to the establishment of poplar tree plantations on privately-owned land. Valuation of family farming is the strongest determinant of…
The “balance discourse”: A case study of power and wetland management
Corporate "Bail-Outs" and Local "Buyouts: Pathways to Community Forestry
In the early 1990s, two Canadian newsprint mills formerly owned by large corporations were purchased locally through management or employee/management buyouts. This effectively established local control and decision making over mill and forestry operations for substantial amounts of land in Ontario and Manitoba. Over the last decade there has been considerable discussion in the literature regarding community forestry. Local ownership and control …
Communities, Policy and Chronic Technological Disasters
This article argues that chronic technological disasters are best viewed as processes rather than as events. Chronic technological disasters are embedded in a variety of decisions and policies that regulate, or fail to regulate, the process that results in what comes to be defined, through social processes, as a technological disaster. We present the argument for examining chronic technological disasters as policy processes and examine stages of …
Cumulative Effects Assessment: Linking Social, Ecological, and Governance Dimensions
Weber, M., N. Krogman, and T. Antoniuk. 2012. Cumulative effects assessment: linking social, ecological, and governance dimensions. Ecology and Society 17(2): 22. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04597-170222
Sociology and the environment: An analysis of journal coverage
Social Thresholds and their Translation into Social-ecological Management Practices
The objective of this paper is to provide a preliminary discussion of how to improve our conceptualization of social thresholds using (1) a more sociological analysis of social resilience, and (2) results from research carried out in collaboration with the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations of the Yukon Territory, Canada. Our sociological analysis of the concept of resilience begins with a review of the literature followed by placement of the c…
Should Academics Advocate on Environmental Issues
Academic advocacy involves advancing convincingly reasoned arguments that are supported by research results and academic expertise. However, academics must recognize that their notions of “good” are context dependent. Advocacy is an important and useful service of the university and failure to advocate undermines the social relevance of academia. Nonetheless, advocacy can have personal cost for the advocate, and we consider it appropriate that in…
The “Locavore” Chef in Alberta: A Situated Social Practice Analysis
A sub-culture of “locavore” chefs is playing a critical but under-examined role in addressing concerns about the conventional, industrialized food system by re-localizing the sourcing, processing, and preparation of food. The values that underlie why certain chefs decide to work in this niche market, their strategies to overcome the situational challenges of sourcing locally produced food, and the ways they develop the knowledge and skills needed…
Bureaucratic Slippage and Environmental Offset Policies: The Case of Wetland Management in Alberta
Environmental trading programs are seen as promising tools for fostering sustainable development, yet little is know about how decision-making practices in these emerging policy spaces influence program outcomes. This study quantifies wetland compensation outcomes in Alberta, Canada, and compares these outcomes to statements made in government-issued compensation guidelines. Contrary to guideline intent, we found a strong tendency to skip over we…
Sustainable Consumption and the Importance of Neighbourhood: A Central City/Suburb Comparison
This paper applies urban and environmental sociological theory to survey data on self-reported sustainable consumption practices, using a matched sample of central city and suburban residents in Edmonton, Alberta. We use cluster analysis to create an ordinal typology of four types of consumers, conduct an analyses of variance to characterize the resultant clusters, and perform logistic regression to predict the net effect of urban and neighborhoo…
Dead Ducks and Dirty Oil: Media Representations and Environmental Solutions
In April 2008, more than 1,600 migrating ducks died after landing on a toxic tailings pond in the Oil Sands region of northeastern Alberta. The responsible company was found guilty and paid the largest environmental fine in Alberta's history. To assess the nature of this environmental focusing event, we identified 747 newspaper articles that covered this event, published between January 2008 and June 2011. Each article was coded based on date of …
Social Consequences of Employee/Management Buyouts: Two Canadian Examples From the Forest Sector
Local control of natural resource processing facilities in small rural communities is often viewed as beneficial to community development. This paper employs social impact assessment tools to examine the social and economic effects of change in the ownership of forest products mills in two communities. Our analysis documents (1) the degree to which local ownership of the new, locally owned corporations led to local reinvestment of profits, and (2…
Sociology and the environment: An analysis of journal coverage
Frame disputes in environmental controversies: The case of wetland regulations in Louisiana
Stakeholder groups’ arguments for or against regulations represent frames, or versions of reality and visions of solutions. Frame effectiveness, or the ability of a group convincingly to convey its grievances, increases its opportunities to gain valuable resources such as legitimacy, money, facilities, and labor to apply to its agenda for change. This paper uses the constructionist perspective to describe the basic frames advanced by each major g…
Communities, Policy and Chronic Technological Disasters
This article argues that chronic technological disasters are best viewed as processes rather than as events. Chronic technological disasters are embedded in a variety of decisions and policies that regulate, or fail to regulate, the process that results in what comes to be defined, through social processes, as a technological disaster. We present the argument for examining chronic technological disasters as policy processes and examine stages of …
Corporate "Bail-Outs" and Local "Buyouts: Pathways to Community Forestry
In the early 1990s, two Canadian newsprint mills formerly owned by large corporations were purchased locally through management or employee/management buyouts. This effectively established local control and decision making over mill and forestry operations for substantial amounts of land in Ontario and Manitoba. Over the last decade there has been considerable discussion in the literature regarding community forestry. Local ownership and control …
Social Consequences of Employee/Management Buyouts: Two Canadian Examples From the Forest Sector
Local control of natural resource processing facilities in small rural communities is often viewed as beneficial to community development. This paper employs social impact assessment tools to examine the social and economic effects of change in the ownership of forest products mills in two communities. Our analysis documents (1) the degree to which local ownership of the new, locally owned corporations led to local reinvestment of profits, and (2…
Critical Analysis of the Relationship between Local Ownership and Community Resiliency
Collectively, current resource-development literature has given little attention to organizational features of ownership as important variables in community resilience. By drawing from six local buyout cases in Canada's forest sector, we reveal the complexity and numerous constraints on local ownership and expose a more nuanced context than most sociologists tend to consider. Our findings suggest that the meaning of local ownership and community …
My Grandfather Would Roll Over in His Grave: Family Farming and Tree Plantations on Farmland
In this paper we hypothesize that farmers with a stronger valuation of family farming will be more resistant to converting farmland to tree plantations. Our survey data analysis from 106 farmers in northern Alberta reveals that general opposition to trees on farmland is the strongest predictor of farmers' resistance to the establishment of poplar tree plantations on privately-owned land. Valuation of family farming is the strongest determinant of…
Towards a sociology of consumerism
Despite concern over the environmental impacts of consumerism, there is a little theoretical coherence into the topic. We present a review of theoretical work from the social sciences to move towards a sociology of consumerism. Few sociological theories address sustainability so we draw from a broad array of literature from Baudrillard (1998) [Baudrillard, J. (1998) The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures. London, UK: Sage] to Veblen (1994) [V…
Should Academics Advocate on Environmental Issues
Academic advocacy involves advancing convincingly reasoned arguments that are supported by research results and academic expertise. However, academics must recognize that their notions of “good” are context dependent. Advocacy is an important and useful service of the university and failure to advocate undermines the social relevance of academia. Nonetheless, advocacy can have personal cost for the advocate, and we consider it appropriate that in…
Powerful or Just Plain Power-Full? A Power Analysis of Impact and Benefit Agreements in Canada’s North
Impact and benefit agreements (IBAs) between natural resource developers and Aboriginal communities are increasingly portrayed as viable approaches to assure Aboriginal people will reap economic benefits of resource extraction in their traditional territories. Drawing from existing literature about the social context of IBA negotiations, especially in Northern Canada, the authors’ analysis contributes to the study of negotiated agreements by usin…
Gender as contradiction: From dichotomies to diversity in natural resource extraction
Cumulative Effects Assessment: Linking Social, Ecological, and Governance Dimensions
Weber, M., N. Krogman, and T. Antoniuk. 2012. Cumulative effects assessment: linking social, ecological, and governance dimensions. Ecology and Society 17(2): 22. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04597-170222
Social Thresholds and their Translation into Social-ecological Management Practices
The objective of this paper is to provide a preliminary discussion of how to improve our conceptualization of social thresholds using (1) a more sociological analysis of social resilience, and (2) results from research carried out in collaboration with the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations of the Yukon Territory, Canada. Our sociological analysis of the concept of resilience begins with a review of the literature followed by placement of the c…
A Revolution Reconsidered? Examining the Practice of Qualitative Research in Feminist Scholarship
One of feminism’s most notable objectives is to revolutionize the practice of empirical inquiry. Many feminist scholars have advocated the adoption of qualitative research methods based on standpoint epistemology as a means of reducing power imbalances and giving voice to participants. However, there has been little attempt to systematically address the extent to which qualitative methods have been integrated into feminist social science research…
Learning from the Pros: The Role of ISSRM, SNR , and IASNR in Our Careers
The best way to find oneself is in the service of others. (Ghandi) If we know anything as social scientists, we know we do not become who we are as professionals in a vacuum, and we are not tabula
Bureaucratic Slippage and Environmental Offset Policies: The Case of Wetland Management in Alberta
Environmental trading programs are seen as promising tools for fostering sustainable development, yet little is know about how decision-making practices in these emerging policy spaces influence program outcomes. This study quantifies wetland compensation outcomes in Alberta, Canada, and compares these outcomes to statements made in government-issued compensation guidelines. Contrary to guideline intent, we found a strong tendency to skip over we…
Downshifting: An Exploration of Motivations, Quality of Life, and Environmental Practices
“Downshifting,” reducing work hours, thereby income, to increase leisure time, offers a possible individual‐level solution to the stress many experience from long working hours and work intensification. Recently, some have argued that an increase in leisure time with a reduction in income might also foster pro‐environmental lifestyles as has been demonstrated for the “voluntary simplicity” movement. Quantitative research on the relationship betwe…
Sustainable Consumption and the Importance of Neighbourhood: A Central City/Suburb Comparison
This paper applies urban and environmental sociological theory to survey data on self-reported sustainable consumption practices, using a matched sample of central city and suburban residents in Edmonton, Alberta. We use cluster analysis to create an ordinal typology of four types of consumers, conduct an analyses of variance to characterize the resultant clusters, and perform logistic regression to predict the net effect of urban and neighborhoo…
The “balance discourse”: A case study of power and wetland management
Dead Ducks and Dirty Oil: Media Representations and Environmental Solutions
In April 2008, more than 1,600 migrating ducks died after landing on a toxic tailings pond in the Oil Sands region of northeastern Alberta. The responsible company was found guilty and paid the largest environmental fine in Alberta's history. To assess the nature of this environmental focusing event, we identified 747 newspaper articles that covered this event, published between January 2008 and June 2011. Each article was coded based on date of …
Putting Sustainability into Practice: Applications and Advances in Research on Sustainable Consumption
Social practice theories and research on sustainable consumption
Social practice theories are the subject of much discussion among those who study sustainability. Using social practice theories to analyze how routinized activity can contribute to unsustainability problems has resulted in a great deal of stimulating scholarship. In this introductory chapter, we begin by venturing back to some of the early work on social practices and offer an account of key theoretical contributions to the contemporary study of…
The “Locavore” Chef in Alberta: A Situated Social Practice Analysis
A sub-culture of “locavore” chefs is playing a critical but under-examined role in addressing concerns about the conventional, industrialized food system by re-localizing the sourcing, processing, and preparation of food. The values that underlie why certain chefs decide to work in this niche market, their strategies to overcome the situational challenges of sourcing locally produced food, and the ways they develop the knowledge and skills needed…
Economics (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Business (13 works) · Geography (11 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Context (archaeology (5 works) · Engineering (5 works)