Hera Jay Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 842660 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hera Jay Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hera Jay |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN H J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clark University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6056-7047 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Incubating Futures
Incarnations of humanitarian-development policies linking refugee productivity and self-reliance in the Global South have circulated in the international aid sector for decades, but have reemerged in response to concerns about the refugee "crisis" in the Global North. Proponents have referred to these approaches as "incubation." Focusing on Jordan, Lebanon, Ethiopia, and Djibouti, we juxtapose the success story told about incubation with the fail…
The cost-effectiveness of a school-based smoking prevention program in India
Intervention programs aimed at preventing tobacco use among youth have been shown to be effective in curbing tobacco use onset and progression. However, the effects of even very successful tobacco prevention programs may not always impress policy-makers and lay audiences. Economic analysis potentially strengthens the case. In this paper, we evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a youth tobacco use prevention program which has been translated and imp…
The rise of the Global Reporting Initiative
Since its conception in 1999, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has become a leading template for voluntary sustainability reporting by companies. Emerging on the crest of the debate about corporate social responsibility, appropriate roles for business, government, and civil society in the sustainability transition, and private forms of global governance, it is also a descendant of 1970s social movements. Drawing on extensive empirical data c…
Bounded socio-technical experiments as agents of systemic change
Occupational safety and health in Poland in the 1990s
The Social Amplification of Risk
One of the most perplexing problems in risk analysis is why some relatively minor risks or risk events, as assessed by technical experts, often elicit strong public concerns and result in substantial impacts upon society and economy. This article sets forth a conceptual framework that seeks to link systematically the technical assessment of risk with psychological, sociological, and cultural perspectives of risk perception and risk‐related behavi…
The rise of the Global Reporting Initiative
Since its conception in 1999, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has become a leading template for voluntary sustainability reporting by companies. Emerging on the crest of the debate about corporate social responsibility, appropriate roles for business, government, and civil society in the sustainability transition, and private forms of global governance, it is also a descendant of 1970s social movements. Drawing on extensive empirical data c…
Occupational safety and health in Poland in the 1990s
The Social Amplification of Risk
One of the most perplexing problems in risk analysis is why some relatively minor risks or risk events, as assessed by technical experts, often elicit strong public concerns and result in substantial impacts upon society and economy. This article sets forth a conceptual framework that seeks to link systematically the technical assessment of risk with psychological, sociological, and cultural perspectives of risk perception and risk‐related behavi…
Occupational safety and health in Poland in the 1990s
Bounded socio-technical experiments as agents of systemic change
The rise of the Global Reporting Initiative
Since its conception in 1999, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has become a leading template for voluntary sustainability reporting by companies. Emerging on the crest of the debate about corporate social responsibility, appropriate roles for business, government, and civil society in the sustainability transition, and private forms of global governance, it is also a descendant of 1970s social movements. Drawing on extensive empirical data c…
The cost-effectiveness of a school-based smoking prevention program in India
Intervention programs aimed at preventing tobacco use among youth have been shown to be effective in curbing tobacco use onset and progression. However, the effects of even very successful tobacco prevention programs may not always impress policy-makers and lay audiences. Economic analysis potentially strengthens the case. In this paper, we evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a youth tobacco use prevention program which has been translated and imp…
Incubating Futures
Incarnations of humanitarian-development policies linking refugee productivity and self-reliance in the Global South have circulated in the international aid sector for decades, but have reemerged in response to concerns about the refugee "crisis" in the Global North. Proponents have referred to these approaches as "incubation." Focusing on Jordan, Lebanon, Ethiopia, and Djibouti, we juxtapose the success story told about incubation with the fail…
Business (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Air Quality and Health Impacts (1 works) · Bounded function (1 works) · Civil society (1 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (1 works) · Communism (1 works) · Complex Systems and Decision Making (1 works)