A5063493226- Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
- Political Conflict and Governance
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Russia and Soviet political economy
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Judicial and Constitutional Studies
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
- International Development and Aid
- Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies
- War, Ethics, and Justification
- Economic Sanctions and International Relations
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Political Philosophy and Ethics
University of Notre Dame
2007-2023
University of Colorado System
2010
Rice University
2001-2003
Managed relocation is defined as the movement of species, populations, or genotypes to places outside areas their historical distributions maintain biological diversity ecosystem functioning with changing climate. It has been claimed that a major extinction event under way and climate change increasing its severity. Projections indicating may drive substantial losses biodiversity have compelled some scientists suggest traditional management strategies are insufficient. The managed species...
Few, if any, political scientists currently study climate change adaptation or are even aware that there is a large and growing interdisciplinary field of devoted not just to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions but reducing our vulnerability the now-inevitable impacts change. The lack science expertise research represents an obstacle for adapting change, because fundamentally political. Technical advances in adaptations infrastructure, agriculture, public health, coastal protection,...
Blame plays an important role in motivating many human activities, but rarely has the attribution of blame been analyzed for its effects on protest behavior. I argue that how people understand causal relationships and attribute a grievance crucial their decision to redress through protest. The greater specificity attribution, probability Among less specific attributors blame, political entrepreneurs have more opportunities mobilize protest, especially if they can aid specification. test...
Journal Article Response Effects in Polite Cultures: A Test of Acquiescence Kazakhstan Get access DEBRA JAVELINE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 63, Issue 1, May 1999, Pages 1–28, https://doi.org/10.1086/297701 Published: 01 1999
Previous research demonstrates that low-income countries face higher risks than high-income from toxic pollution and climate change. However, the relationship between these two is little explored or tested, efforts to address are often independent uncoordinated. We argue global change highly correlated should be jointly analyzed in order inform better target reduce mitigate both risks. provide such analysis for 176 found a strong (rs = -0.798;95%CI -0.852, -0.727) significant (p<0.0001)...
Courts can better protect rights when citizens are willing and able to litigate in response government abuses of power. However, if people not socialized the possibility litigating against governments, why do some individuals decide litigate? Using an original survey victims Moscow theater hostage incident, we find that litigants a postcommunist context motivated by political disadvantage, defined as their perception they well represented institutions. The effect disadvantage on litigation...
Abstract Climate change will shape the future of Russia, and vice versa, regardless who rules in Kremlin. The world's largest country is warming faster than Earth as a whole, occupies more half Arctic Ocean coastline, waging carbon‐intensive war while increasingly isolated from international community its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Officially, Russian government argues that, major exporter hydrocarbons, Russia benefits maintaining global reliance on fossil fuels climate...
The horrific 2004 hostage taking in Beslan, North Ossetia, was widely expected to provoke retaliatory violence by ethnic Ossetians against Ingush and Chechens. peaceful political activism that ensued suggests a key breaking the cycle of violence.
Considerable uncertainty surrounds projections of climate change and its ecological consequences. We surveyed 2329 environmental biologists found that greater expertise is associated with climatic more severe The opinions scientists converge, they expect larger temperature increases, higher percentages species extinctions, a high percentage species' ranges will in response to over the next 100 years. Importantly, even highest these estimates at lower bounds many published threats...
Abstract Despite projections of biodiversity loss and proposed adaptations to climate change, few data exist on the feasibility effectiveness adaptation strategies in minimizing loss. Given urgent need for action, scientific experts can fill critical information gaps by providing rapid discerning risk assessment. A survey 2,329 projects, average, that 9.5% species will become extinct due change within next 100 years. This average projection is low relative previously published values but...
Communities are already grappling with climate change's acute effects, evidenced by the growing frequency and intensity of extreme events worldwide. Strategies to encourage adaptation change urgently needed, particularly preempt common ineffective maladaptive responses. The United States provides a notable case study for testing potential economic incentives drive voluntary in vulnerable coastal communities where mandates through building codes have proven insufficient limit losses. This...
Given the centralization of power in contemporary Russia, can nonexecutive institutions exercise some power, especially such as high courts, which are critical to establishing rule law? In particular, courts influence Russian public through their persuade? Using experiments embedded three surveys more than 6,000 Russians each, authors find that Supreme and Constitutional Courts, well Duma, have persuasive but greater potential persuade tolerant be intolerant vice versa. The findings powerful...
In the past five years, funding environment for nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and social projects in Russia has changed dramatically. The most publicised developments involve government actions to restrict by Western donors. Less documented been transformation of indigenous civil society how demand-driven strategies may better support development than sceptics assume. Using evidence gathered 2016–2018, we provide an overview NGOs targeted as foreign agent responded their status,...
Abstract Climate change is the greatest governance challenge humanity has ever faced. Understanding why some governments successfully reduce greenhouse gas emissions and others fail thus imperative. While regime type often hypothesized to be a source of variation in emissions, empirical findings about effects democracy autocracy on climate action are contradictory. This research note reconciles these inconsistencies adopts quasi-experimental approach investigate relationship between...
Courts that perform well are the cornerstone of rule law and democratic development. When courts perceived as legalistic, fair, impartial, independent influence extrajudicial actors, aggrieved individuals more likely to pursue litigation over other, potentially unlawful, alternatives. Using original data from surveys than 1,800 randomly sampled lawyers in 12 Russian cities, we investigate effects government funding power diversification on a variety indicators judicial performance. We find...
Journal Article Work Without Wages: Russia’s Nonpayment Crisis Get access by Padma Desai and Todd Idson. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 2001. 258 pp. $29.95. Debra Javeline Rice University Search for other works this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 116, Issue 3, Fall 2001, Pages 467–469, https://doi.org/10.2307/798035 Published: 15 February 2013
Subsidized insurance is often described as a perverse incentive, moral hazard, or maladaptation that perpetuates coastal residencies in vulnerable homes despite increasing safety and economic risks from hurricanes, sea level rise, other climate change impacts. Insurance also positive factor risk reduction if insurers proactively reward homeowners for upgrades mitigate losses hurricanes. The empirical policy-relevant question remains whether perceive incentives positive. A new survey of 662...