Roberta Balstad Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640266 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberta Balstad Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberta Balstad |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER R B |
| AFFILIATIONS | U.S. National Science Foundation |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cities from space: Potential applications of remote sensing in urban environmental research and policy
Social science and the challenge of global environmental change
Racism from a Teacher's Perspective
The Information Society: O Brave New World
This essay discusses the ways that information technology is transforming research and how it is creating a new environment for the use of social science data in public policy. It also discusses how the very opportunities created by the information society at the intersection of research and policy could cause problems for both social scientists and public policy. Keywords: telecommunications, information technology, social science research, publ…
Science and society in the early career of H.F. Verwoerd
The early career of Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd has rarely received either scholarly or political attention. Yet the period between 1924, when he was awarded a PhD in Psychology at Stellenbosch, and 1936, when left academia to become editor of Die Transvaler, was critical in providing him with the organisational and political experience that later made him so successful as a National Party politician and administrator. Equally important, Verwoerd wa…
Research on the human components of global change
Books reviewed
Richard Werbner, Tears of the Dead: the Social Biography of an African Family (Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 1991), xi, 211pp, £30 Norma J. Kriger, Zimbabwe's Guerrilla War: Peasant Voices (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1992), x, 303pp, £35 K. Spink, Black Sash: the Beginning of a Bridge in South Africa (Methuen: London, 1991), xvi, 336pp, £14.99 Vernon February, The Afrikaners of South Africa (Kegan Paul International: London a…
The Future for a New Directorate
scarcely visible and it is quite peripheral to their interests and needs. As a consequence, Foundation support for the biosciences has virtually no relevance for the vast bulk of social science. Given that lack of substantive relevance, it is totally unreasonable to expect a professional staff of bioscientists to be effective spokespersons for social science units whose several budgets combined are less than one-sixth of the total budget for thei…
Technological change and social science research
Hymes Elected First President of Cossa
City and Hinterland: A Case Study of Urban Growth and Regional Development
City and Hinterland: A Case Study of Urban Growth and Regional Development
City and Hinterland: A Case Study of Urban Growth and Regional Development
Journal Article City and Hinterland: A Case Study of Urban Growth and Regional Development. By Roberta Balstad Miller. (Westport: Greenwood, 1979. xiv + 179 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $17.50.) Get access Carol A. O'Connor Carol A. O'Connor Utah State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 4, March 1980, Pages …
City and Hinterland: A Case Study of Urban Growth and Regional Development
Measuring Social Well-Being: A Progress Report on the Development of Social Indicators
Economic Means for Human Needs: Social Indicators of Well-Being and Discontent
Women and American history
Cities from space: Potential applications of remote sensing in urban environmental research and policy
Science and society in the early career of H.F. Verwoerd
The early career of Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd has rarely received either scholarly or political attention. Yet the period between 1924, when he was awarded a PhD in Psychology at Stellenbosch, and 1936, when left academia to become editor of Die Transvaler, was critical in providing him with the organisational and political experience that later made him so successful as a National Party politician and administrator. Equally important, Verwoerd wa…
Research on the human components of global change
Technological change and social science research
City and Hinterland: A Case Study of Urban Growth and Regional Development
Women and American history
Economic Means for Human Needs: Social Indicators of Well-Being and Discontent
Measuring Social Well-Being: A Progress Report on the Development of Social Indicators
City and Hinterland: A Case Study of Urban Growth and Regional Development
Journal Article City and Hinterland: A Case Study of Urban Growth and Regional Development. By Roberta Balstad Miller. (Westport: Greenwood, 1979. xiv + 179 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $17.50.) Get access Carol A. O'Connor Carol A. O'Connor Utah State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 4, March 1980, Pages …
City and Hinterland: A Case Study of Urban Growth and Regional Development
City and Hinterland: A Case Study of Urban Growth and Regional Development
Hymes Elected First President of Cossa
City and Hinterland: A Case Study of Urban Growth and Regional Development
Technological change and social science research
The Future for a New Directorate
scarcely visible and it is quite peripheral to their interests and needs. As a consequence, Foundation support for the biosciences has virtually no relevance for the vast bulk of social science. Given that lack of substantive relevance, it is totally unreasonable to expect a professional staff of bioscientists to be effective spokespersons for social science units whose several budgets combined are less than one-sixth of the total budget for thei…
Research on the human components of global change
Books reviewed
Richard Werbner, Tears of the Dead: the Social Biography of an African Family (Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 1991), xi, 211pp, £30 Norma J. Kriger, Zimbabwe's Guerrilla War: Peasant Voices (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1992), x, 303pp, £35 K. Spink, Black Sash: the Beginning of a Bridge in South Africa (Methuen: London, 1991), xvi, 336pp, £14.99 Vernon February, The Afrikaners of South Africa (Kegan Paul International: London a…
Science and society in the early career of H.F. Verwoerd
The early career of Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd has rarely received either scholarly or political attention. Yet the period between 1924, when he was awarded a PhD in Psychology at Stellenbosch, and 1936, when left academia to become editor of Die Transvaler, was critical in providing him with the organisational and political experience that later made him so successful as a National Party politician and administrator. Equally important, Verwoerd wa…
The Information Society: O Brave New World
This essay discusses the ways that information technology is transforming research and how it is creating a new environment for the use of social science data in public policy. It also discusses how the very opportunities created by the information society at the intersection of research and policy could cause problems for both social scientists and public policy. Keywords: telecommunications, information technology, social science research, publ…
Racism from a Teacher's Perspective
Social science and the challenge of global environmental change
Cities from space: Potential applications of remote sensing in urban environmental research and policy
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