David Williamson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3731337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Williamson |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Williamson |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3826-7889 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Evenness peaks in fire-resilient vegetation preceded ecosystem shifts in East Africa
Fire is often assumed to be a key driver in shaping tropical vegetation structure and composition in grass-dominated ecosystems, while forests experience infrequent but impactful fires that influence ecosystem resilience. Although short-term interactions between fire and vegetation are well-documented, long-term dynamics remain underexplored. This study examines fire regimes, vegetation dynamics, and its biodiversity over the past 17 000 years in…
Borealization of tundra ecosystems with climate and land-use change
As the colder regions of the planet warm, species are moving northward and upward from the boreal forest to the tundra biome, a process that has been referred to as borealization. Here, we examine the diverse uses of the term borealization and propose the concept of ‘tundra borealization’ for terrestrial environments to specifically describe shifts and increases in abundance of boreal species into the tundra. We summarize the evidence to date for…
Association between quality of life before an acute pain event and the development of chronic pain-related disability
So How Did We Get Here? A Historical Case Study of Migrant Employment in the New Zealand Hotel Sector
This article maps the transition from a corporatist to a neoliberal consensus in the hotel industry in New Zealand, focussing on the changing labour conditions for migrant workers. We show how the current vulnerabilities for migrant workers, such as poor pay and conditions, and low unionisation, came into being. While much "presentist" research takes migrant worker vulnerability in hospitality and tourism for granted, this article finds that migr…
From corporatist consensus to neo-liberal revolution: A gendered analysis of the hotel workers union and its impact on (un)sustainable employment practices in the New Zealand hotel sector, 1955–2000
This paper takes a critical, historical employment relations approach to present an original contribution to research on sustainable tourism employment. The research is focussed on a gendered analysis of (un)sustainable employment practices in the New Zealand tourist hotel sector from 1950 to 2000, specifically concentrating on the role of the Hotel Workers Union and the broader post-war corporatist and neo-liberal economic, political and social …
Governance of agents in the recruitment of international students: A Typology of Contractual Management Approaches in Higher Education
There is an increasing reliance on international education agents for student recruitment in Higher Education (HE), but the governance of education agents is under-researched. This study explores contractual governance approaches adopted by HE institutions for managing international education agents in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis of survey data from HE managers was undertaken involvi…
Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap: Creating 'hospitable wages' through the Living Wage Movement
This conceptual article calls for a greater recognition of wages in academic and media discussions of hospitality and tourism employment. The article draws on the New Zealand hospitality and tourism context, but places the discussion in an international perspective as well. The article approaches the topic of low wages in a new way, arguing that rather than being an inevitable outcome of structural factors, improving wages can be an 'engine' for …
Macrofossil evidence of Late Holocene presence of Aldrovanda vesiculosa L. in Central-Eastern Europe (Poland) and East Africa (Tanzania)
Attributions for Parents’ Behavior by Boys With and Without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Pricing rainbow, green, blue and grey water: Tree cover and geopolitics of climatic teleconnections
Atmospheric moisture (“rainbow water”) is the source of all green, blue and grey water flows. Current water-related legislation and policies have moved beyond blue (water allocation) and grey (waste water treatment) water concerns to incorporate the green water concept of additional water use by fast-growing trees; it may require further change to incorporate rainbow water relations as evident in recent literature on short-cycle rainfall derived …
A potential feedback between landuse and climate in the Rungwe tropical highland stresses a critical environmental research challenge
International audience
A comparison of two scoring methods for an automated speech scoring system
This paper compares two alternative scoring methods – multiple regression and classification trees – for an automated speech scoring system used in a practice environment. The two methods were evaluated on two criteria: construct representation and empirical performance in predicting human scores. The empirical performance of the two scoring models is reported in Zechner, Higgins, Xi, & Williamson (2009), which discusses the development of the en…
Ecological modernisation and the regulation of firms
Since policies that address environmental concerns through ecological modernisation are thought to require regulation to achieve their aim, the form that regulation takes becomes crucial. Some suggest softer forms of regulatory governance are effective at inducing eco-innovations, while others support direct regulation. We endorse the view that both are needed, as firms respond to different approaches. Excessive faith in one approach is misplaced…
Phytolith indices as proxies of grass subfamilies on East African tropical mountains
An Overview of 9/11 Experiences and Respiratory and Mental Health Conditions among World Trade Center Health Registry Enrollees
To date, health effects of exposure to the September 11, 2001 disaster in New York City have been studied in specific groups, but no studies have estimated its impact across the different exposed populations. This report provides an overview of the World Trade Center Health Registry (WTCHR) enrollees, their exposures, and their respiratory and mental health outcomes 2-3 years post-9/11. Results are extrapolated to the estimated universe of people…
The Social Licence as a Form of Regulation for Small and Medium Enterprises
Traditional forms of regulation have been criticized for not adequately protecting the environment. Indeed, there is evidence and growing support for the view that societal pressure can act as a social licence which induces ‘beyond compliance’ behaviour. In exploring this view, the paper (a) outlines the characteristics of the social licence; (b) assesses how these characteristics can influence the environmental behaviour of small and medium ente…
Conciliation procedure in the European Law-making process
Drivers of Environmental Behaviour in Manufacturing SMEs and the Implications for CSR
Organization structure and strategy
Climatic and volcanic forcing revealed in a 50,000-year diatom record from Lake Massoko, Tanzania
The interactions between climatic and volcanic forcing on diatom communities contained in a 50,000-year sedimentary sequence from Lake Massoko, Tanzania, were examined. At the century scale, 19 discrete tephra inputs to the lake isolated the sedimentary nutrient supply and shifted the diatom communities to those tolerant of low phosphorus levels, whereas at the millennial scale, diatom-inferred shifts in precipitation–evaporation based on conduct…
Strategic management and business analysis
A late-Holocene charcoal record from Lake Masoko, SW Tanzania: Climatic and anthropologic implications
Charcoal analysis from a short core in a small tropical crater lake (Lake Masoko, SW Tanzania) reveals changes in charred-particle deposition and properties, consistent with high climatic variability for the last 4200 years. This is evidenced by automated image analysis of charcoal size distributions, thermal resistant carbon (soot) and black carbon elemental analysis. Charcoal-particle transport in the lake decreases during dry spells, and incre…
Judgments About Length, Weight, and Width Covariation as a Function of Intelligence and Depth of Processing in Elementary School Children: A Preliminary Study
The sensitivity of a Tanzanian crater lake to catastrophic tephra input and four millennia of climate change
Diatom genera in many large East African lakes change little throughout the Holocene period suggesting relatively stable ecological conditions and some resilience to environmental change. Ecosystem stability is less common in smaller, more sensitive lakes, such as those within volcanic craters, where external impacts can cause abrupt and rapid fluctuations. A 4100-year diatom and cyanobacteria pigment record from Lake Massoko, a volcanic crater l…
European political integration and the challenge of EU enlargement
The interview reveals the European Commission's policy strategy towards the forthcoming Eastern European enlargement, particularly as regards internal as well as external security aspects. Consequently, Mr. David Williamson (former Secretary General of the European Commission from 1987 until 1997) presents his experiences in conjunction with the European Union reforms in the field of the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the co‐operation in …
Drivers of Environmental Behaviour in Manufacturing SMEs and the Implications for CSR
An Overview of 9/11 Experiences and Respiratory and Mental Health Conditions among World Trade Center Health Registry Enrollees
To date, health effects of exposure to the September 11, 2001 disaster in New York City have been studied in specific groups, but no studies have estimated its impact across the different exposed populations. This report provides an overview of the World Trade Center Health Registry (WTCHR) enrollees, their exposures, and their respiratory and mental health outcomes 2-3 years post-9/11. Results are extrapolated to the estimated universe of people…
The Social Licence as a Form of Regulation for Small and Medium Enterprises
Traditional forms of regulation have been criticized for not adequately protecting the environment. Indeed, there is evidence and growing support for the view that societal pressure can act as a social licence which induces ‘beyond compliance’ behaviour. In exploring this view, the paper (a) outlines the characteristics of the social licence; (b) assesses how these characteristics can influence the environmental behaviour of small and medium ente…
Terror, the Strategic Tool: Response and Control
The United States appears ill prepared to deal with an emerging form of interstate rivalry, that is, the use of terror as an unconventional weapon to achieve conventional political ends. The terror event represents a powerful form of leverage simply because of its media value. Using media coverage to amplify their impact, acts of terrorist violence have paralyzed Western governments and undermined their credibility. In a destabilized internationa…
The sensitivity of a Tanzanian crater lake to catastrophic tephra input and four millennia of climate change
Diatom genera in many large East African lakes change little throughout the Holocene period suggesting relatively stable ecological conditions and some resilience to environmental change. Ecosystem stability is less common in smaller, more sensitive lakes, such as those within volcanic craters, where external impacts can cause abrupt and rapid fluctuations. A 4100-year diatom and cyanobacteria pigment record from Lake Massoko, a volcanic crater l…
Pricing rainbow, green, blue and grey water: Tree cover and geopolitics of climatic teleconnections
Atmospheric moisture (“rainbow water”) is the source of all green, blue and grey water flows. Current water-related legislation and policies have moved beyond blue (water allocation) and grey (waste water treatment) water concerns to incorporate the green water concept of additional water use by fast-growing trees; it may require further change to incorporate rainbow water relations as evident in recent literature on short-cycle rainfall derived …
A late-Holocene charcoal record from Lake Masoko, SW Tanzania: Climatic and anthropologic implications
Charcoal analysis from a short core in a small tropical crater lake (Lake Masoko, SW Tanzania) reveals changes in charred-particle deposition and properties, consistent with high climatic variability for the last 4200 years. This is evidenced by automated image analysis of charcoal size distributions, thermal resistant carbon (soot) and black carbon elemental analysis. Charcoal-particle transport in the lake decreases during dry spells, and incre…
Governance of agents in the recruitment of international students: A Typology of Contractual Management Approaches in Higher Education
There is an increasing reliance on international education agents for student recruitment in Higher Education (HE), but the governance of education agents is under-researched. This study explores contractual governance approaches adopted by HE institutions for managing international education agents in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis of survey data from HE managers was undertaken involvi…
Terror, the Strategic Tool: Response and Control
The United States appears ill prepared to deal with an emerging form of interstate rivalry, that is, the use of terror as an unconventional weapon to achieve conventional political ends. The terror event represents a powerful form of leverage simply because of its media value. Using media coverage to amplify their impact, acts of terrorist violence have paralyzed Western governments and undermined their credibility. In a destabilized internationa…
Depressed Affect, Hopelessness, and the Risk of Ischemic Heart Disease in a Cohort of U.S. Adults
Major depression has been associated with mortality from ischemic heart disease (IHD). In addition, a symptom of depression--hopelessness--has been suggested as a determinant of health status. We studied the relation of both depressed affect and hopelessness to IHD incidence using data from a cohort of 2,832 U.S. adults age 45-77 years who participated in the National Health Examination Follow-up Study (mean follow-up = 12.4 years) and had no his…
Childhood Abuse as a Factor in Attrition from Drug Rehabilitation
The following factors were examined as possible influences of clients' attrition from inpatient and outpatient drug-rehabilitation programs: depression (Center of Epidemiological Studies-Depression test), attributional style (Attributional Style Questionnaire), primary drug of choice, family incidence of substance abuse, and history of childhood physical abuse. A step-wise regression analysis indicated that a history of childhood abuse was a stat…
European political integration and the challenge of EU enlargement
The interview reveals the European Commission's policy strategy towards the forthcoming Eastern European enlargement, particularly as regards internal as well as external security aspects. Consequently, Mr. David Williamson (former Secretary General of the European Commission from 1987 until 1997) presents his experiences in conjunction with the European Union reforms in the field of the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the co‐operation in …
The sensitivity of a Tanzanian crater lake to catastrophic tephra input and four millennia of climate change
Diatom genera in many large East African lakes change little throughout the Holocene period suggesting relatively stable ecological conditions and some resilience to environmental change. Ecosystem stability is less common in smaller, more sensitive lakes, such as those within volcanic craters, where external impacts can cause abrupt and rapid fluctuations. A 4100-year diatom and cyanobacteria pigment record from Lake Massoko, a volcanic crater l…
Judgments About Length, Weight, and Width Covariation as a Function of Intelligence and Depth of Processing in Elementary School Children: A Preliminary Study
Climatic and volcanic forcing revealed in a 50,000-year diatom record from Lake Massoko, Tanzania
The interactions between climatic and volcanic forcing on diatom communities contained in a 50,000-year sedimentary sequence from Lake Massoko, Tanzania, were examined. At the century scale, 19 discrete tephra inputs to the lake isolated the sedimentary nutrient supply and shifted the diatom communities to those tolerant of low phosphorus levels, whereas at the millennial scale, diatom-inferred shifts in precipitation–evaporation based on conduct…
Strategic management and business analysis
A late-Holocene charcoal record from Lake Masoko, SW Tanzania: Climatic and anthropologic implications
Charcoal analysis from a short core in a small tropical crater lake (Lake Masoko, SW Tanzania) reveals changes in charred-particle deposition and properties, consistent with high climatic variability for the last 4200 years. This is evidenced by automated image analysis of charcoal size distributions, thermal resistant carbon (soot) and black carbon elemental analysis. Charcoal-particle transport in the lake decreases during dry spells, and incre…
Organization structure and strategy
Conciliation procedure in the European Law-making process
Drivers of Environmental Behaviour in Manufacturing SMEs and the Implications for CSR
The Social Licence as a Form of Regulation for Small and Medium Enterprises
Traditional forms of regulation have been criticized for not adequately protecting the environment. Indeed, there is evidence and growing support for the view that societal pressure can act as a social licence which induces ‘beyond compliance’ behaviour. In exploring this view, the paper (a) outlines the characteristics of the social licence; (b) assesses how these characteristics can influence the environmental behaviour of small and medium ente…
Phytolith indices as proxies of grass subfamilies on East African tropical mountains
An Overview of 9/11 Experiences and Respiratory and Mental Health Conditions among World Trade Center Health Registry Enrollees
To date, health effects of exposure to the September 11, 2001 disaster in New York City have been studied in specific groups, but no studies have estimated its impact across the different exposed populations. This report provides an overview of the World Trade Center Health Registry (WTCHR) enrollees, their exposures, and their respiratory and mental health outcomes 2-3 years post-9/11. Results are extrapolated to the estimated universe of people…
A comparison of two scoring methods for an automated speech scoring system
This paper compares two alternative scoring methods – multiple regression and classification trees – for an automated speech scoring system used in a practice environment. The two methods were evaluated on two criteria: construct representation and empirical performance in predicting human scores. The empirical performance of the two scoring models is reported in Zechner, Higgins, Xi, & Williamson (2009), which discusses the development of the en…
Ecological modernisation and the regulation of firms
Since policies that address environmental concerns through ecological modernisation are thought to require regulation to achieve their aim, the form that regulation takes becomes crucial. Some suggest softer forms of regulatory governance are effective at inducing eco-innovations, while others support direct regulation. We endorse the view that both are needed, as firms respond to different approaches. Excessive faith in one approach is misplaced…
Pricing rainbow, green, blue and grey water: Tree cover and geopolitics of climatic teleconnections
Atmospheric moisture (“rainbow water”) is the source of all green, blue and grey water flows. Current water-related legislation and policies have moved beyond blue (water allocation) and grey (waste water treatment) water concerns to incorporate the green water concept of additional water use by fast-growing trees; it may require further change to incorporate rainbow water relations as evident in recent literature on short-cycle rainfall derived …
A potential feedback between landuse and climate in the Rungwe tropical highland stresses a critical environmental research challenge
International audience
Attributions for Parents’ Behavior by Boys With and Without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Macrofossil evidence of Late Holocene presence of Aldrovanda vesiculosa L. in Central-Eastern Europe (Poland) and East Africa (Tanzania)
Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap: Creating 'hospitable wages' through the Living Wage Movement
This conceptual article calls for a greater recognition of wages in academic and media discussions of hospitality and tourism employment. The article draws on the New Zealand hospitality and tourism context, but places the discussion in an international perspective as well. The article approaches the topic of low wages in a new way, arguing that rather than being an inevitable outcome of structural factors, improving wages can be an 'engine' for …
From corporatist consensus to neo-liberal revolution: A gendered analysis of the hotel workers union and its impact on (un)sustainable employment practices in the New Zealand hotel sector, 1955–2000
This paper takes a critical, historical employment relations approach to present an original contribution to research on sustainable tourism employment. The research is focussed on a gendered analysis of (un)sustainable employment practices in the New Zealand tourist hotel sector from 1950 to 2000, specifically concentrating on the role of the Hotel Workers Union and the broader post-war corporatist and neo-liberal economic, political and social …
Governance of agents in the recruitment of international students: A Typology of Contractual Management Approaches in Higher Education
There is an increasing reliance on international education agents for student recruitment in Higher Education (HE), but the governance of education agents is under-researched. This study explores contractual governance approaches adopted by HE institutions for managing international education agents in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis of survey data from HE managers was undertaken involvi…
So How Did We Get Here? A Historical Case Study of Migrant Employment in the New Zealand Hotel Sector
This article maps the transition from a corporatist to a neoliberal consensus in the hotel industry in New Zealand, focussing on the changing labour conditions for migrant workers. We show how the current vulnerabilities for migrant workers, such as poor pay and conditions, and low unionisation, came into being. While much "presentist" research takes migrant worker vulnerability in hospitality and tourism for granted, this article finds that migr…
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