Jill M Belsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 3770717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jill M Belsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jill M |
| FAMILY NAME | Belsky |
| SIGNATURE | BELSKY J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Montana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Focus Issue
Anthropogenic and environmental pressures on mountains result in land degradation, as well as in the loss of species and critical ecological functions and services.Concomitantly, average temperatures continue to rise and fluctuations in the amount and spatiotemporal distribution of precipitation increase (eg Hock et al 2019), exacerbating these trends.Hence, the urgency of restoring mountain ecosystems and landscapes is indisputable.Action is nee…
The Constitutionality Approach
Constitutionality in Montana
The Social Lives of Forests
The Social Lives of Forests: Past, Present, and Future of Woodland Resurgence, by Susanna B. Hecht, Kathleen D. Morrison, and Christine Padoch, eds.." Society & Natural Resources, 30(9), pp. 1179–1180
Questions That Won't Go Away in Participatory Research
Ethical issues are intrinsic to conducting research regarding society and natural resources, but they often become poignant when engaging in Participatory Action Research. We compiled common and persistent challenges into a list of "Questions That Won't Go Away" or "QTWGAs" that are relevant to people interested in conducting participatory research to benefit communities. We discuss these questions in the context of previously published literatur…
Community forestry engagement with market forces
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…
New Possibilities
Introduction from the New Editors-in-Chief (2012–2015)
Embracing Our Second Year
Participatory action research and environmental learning
How can a participatory approach to research promote environmental learning and enhance social–ecological systems resilience? Participatory action research (PAR) is an approach to research that its' supporters claim can foster new knowledge, learning, and action to support positive social and environmental change through reorienting the standard process of knowledge production. PAR is posited as being particularly suitable for use with historical…
Private Property Rights and Community Goods
The cooperative practices of private landowners, while critical to cross-boundary conservation, are not well understood. Based on research along the Rocky Mountain Front in Montana, we document the ways that established customs governing cooperation between ranchers meet both individual and community needs. While ranchers argued for landowner control of private property, in practice, rancher property boundaries were permeable and contingent with …
The Politics of Place
A major challenge of forest policy and management is effectively understanding different people's viewpoints on natural resource use and conservation, and how those viewpoints contribute to conflict and conflict resolution. In response to this challenge, the concept of place is gaining currency in natural resource research. The study of place promises an integrative approach to understanding people's relationships with particular areas. Realizing…
Cultivating cacao Implications of sun-grown cacao on local food security and environmental sustainability
Beyond the Natural Resource and Environmental Sociology Divide
In response to the Field et al. (2001) and Buttel (2001) argument that there are distinct patterns that distinguish natural resource and environmental sociology, I argue that this is typical of a thriving multiparadigmatic social science and is occurring across other ecological social sciences. In this article I briefly review current debates among anthropologists and human geographers to illustrate the transdisciplinary relevance of the natural …
Feminist perspectives on sustainable development
Soil conservation and poverty
Soil conservation efforts in Indonesia since the Dutch colonial era have focused on introducing bench terraces—a costly soil conservation method for poor, upland farmers. Data from two villages in the Kerinci uplands of Sumatra illustrate that even with state underwriting of bench terrace construction, farmers across all economic strata still resist using this method. Why the state has not pursued alternative soil conservation approaches—especial…
Forest-product trade in a lowland Filipino village
Private Property Rights and Community Goods
The cooperative practices of private landowners, while critical to cross-boundary conservation, are not well understood. Based on research along the Rocky Mountain Front in Montana, we document the ways that established customs governing cooperation between ranchers meet both individual and community needs. While ranchers argued for landowner control of private property, in practice, rancher property boundaries were permeable and contingent with …
Participatory action research and environmental learning
How can a participatory approach to research promote environmental learning and enhance social–ecological systems resilience? Participatory action research (PAR) is an approach to research that its' supporters claim can foster new knowledge, learning, and action to support positive social and environmental change through reorienting the standard process of knowledge production. PAR is posited as being particularly suitable for use with historical…
Beyond the Natural Resource and Environmental Sociology Divide
In response to the Field et al. (2001) and Buttel (2001) argument that there are distinct patterns that distinguish natural resource and environmental sociology, I argue that this is typical of a thriving multiparadigmatic social science and is occurring across other ecological social sciences. In this article I briefly review current debates among anthropologists and human geographers to illustrate the transdisciplinary relevance of the natural …
Questions That Won't Go Away in Participatory Research
Ethical issues are intrinsic to conducting research regarding society and natural resources, but they often become poignant when engaging in Participatory Action Research. We compiled common and persistent challenges into a list of "Questions That Won't Go Away" or "QTWGAs" that are relevant to people interested in conducting participatory research to benefit communities. We discuss these questions in the context of previously published literatur…
Forest-product trade in a lowland Filipino village
Community forestry engagement with market forces
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…
Cultivating cacao Implications of sun-grown cacao on local food security and environmental sustainability
Feminist perspectives on sustainable development
Soil conservation and poverty
Soil conservation efforts in Indonesia since the Dutch colonial era have focused on introducing bench terraces—a costly soil conservation method for poor, upland farmers. Data from two villages in the Kerinci uplands of Sumatra illustrate that even with state underwriting of bench terrace construction, farmers across all economic strata still resist using this method. Why the state has not pursued alternative soil conservation approaches—especial…
Forest-product trade in a lowland Filipino village
Soil conservation and poverty
Soil conservation efforts in Indonesia since the Dutch colonial era have focused on introducing bench terraces—a costly soil conservation method for poor, upland farmers. Data from two villages in the Kerinci uplands of Sumatra illustrate that even with state underwriting of bench terrace construction, farmers across all economic strata still resist using this method. Why the state has not pursued alternative soil conservation approaches—especial…
Feminist perspectives on sustainable development
Beyond the Natural Resource and Environmental Sociology Divide
In response to the Field et al. (2001) and Buttel (2001) argument that there are distinct patterns that distinguish natural resource and environmental sociology, I argue that this is typical of a thriving multiparadigmatic social science and is occurring across other ecological social sciences. In this article I briefly review current debates among anthropologists and human geographers to illustrate the transdisciplinary relevance of the natural …
The Politics of Place
A major challenge of forest policy and management is effectively understanding different people's viewpoints on natural resource use and conservation, and how those viewpoints contribute to conflict and conflict resolution. In response to this challenge, the concept of place is gaining currency in natural resource research. The study of place promises an integrative approach to understanding people's relationships with particular areas. Realizing…
Cultivating cacao Implications of sun-grown cacao on local food security and environmental sustainability
Private Property Rights and Community Goods
The cooperative practices of private landowners, while critical to cross-boundary conservation, are not well understood. Based on research along the Rocky Mountain Front in Montana, we document the ways that established customs governing cooperation between ranchers meet both individual and community needs. While ranchers argued for landowner control of private property, in practice, rancher property boundaries were permeable and contingent with …
Participatory action research and environmental learning
How can a participatory approach to research promote environmental learning and enhance social–ecological systems resilience? Participatory action research (PAR) is an approach to research that its' supporters claim can foster new knowledge, learning, and action to support positive social and environmental change through reorienting the standard process of knowledge production. PAR is posited as being particularly suitable for use with historical…
Introduction from the New Editors-in-Chief (2012–2015)
Embracing Our Second Year
New Possibilities
Community forestry engagement with market forces
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…
Questions That Won't Go Away in Participatory Research
Ethical issues are intrinsic to conducting research regarding society and natural resources, but they often become poignant when engaging in Participatory Action Research. We compiled common and persistent challenges into a list of "Questions That Won't Go Away" or "QTWGAs" that are relevant to people interested in conducting participatory research to benefit communities. We discuss these questions in the context of previously published literatur…
The Social Lives of Forests
The Social Lives of Forests: Past, Present, and Future of Woodland Resurgence, by Susanna B. Hecht, Kathleen D. Morrison, and Christine Padoch, eds.." Society & Natural Resources, 30(9), pp. 1179–1180
The Constitutionality Approach
Constitutionality in Montana
Focus Issue
Anthropogenic and environmental pressures on mountains result in land degradation, as well as in the loss of species and critical ecological functions and services.Concomitantly, average temperatures continue to rise and fluctuations in the amount and spatiotemporal distribution of precipitation increase (eg Hock et al 2019), exacerbating these trends.Hence, the urgency of restoring mountain ecosystems and landscapes is indisputable.Action is nee…
Political science (12 works) · Geography (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Biology (5 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 works)