In the United States, debris removal is one of costliest and most time-consuming elements disaster response recovery. It essential to reducing secondary environmental health risks, community recovery rebuilding. Analysis waste management, though, primarily treats it as a series operational steps technical decisions. contrast, this article analyses decision-making social process. We present findings an ethnographic study that engaged over 70 government actors from federal, state, local,...

Integration of the social sciences into climate assessments enhances report content and actionable science. The literature has identified benefits challenges in achieving coequal intellectual partnerships between biogeophysical research. Less been written on how to rectify issue particular institutional context a assessment. This article uses qualitative research methods analyze science integration United States' Fourth National Climate Assessment. It presents findings from focus groups held...

Abstract This article shows how tourism has shaped Latin American environments by constructing touristic landscapes, causing environmental impacts, and affecting problem solving. The author utilizes written records interviews to document the history of Inca Trail Machu Picchu. transformation from overgrown path global hiking destination began in early twentieth century. Foreign Peruvian scientific expeditions socially constructed trail as natural cultural heritage. State corporate actors...

Building community resilience requires centering equity in planning processes. Tools and resources for strengthening need to address both their content the process using them. This is especially so communities living proximity contaminated lands that face compounding hazards (i.e., environmental, disaster, climate-related); legacies of institutional or structural disenfranchisement; challenges with inclusion minority populations planning; constraints on doing data-intensive management...

This article compares and contrasts resilience frameworks to identify commonalities gaps. It proposes use of a coupled human-natural systems framework (CHNS) analyze community disasters. CHNS builds on the human ecosystem model that analyzes how institutions social order shape fluxes flows resources between within environmental systems. expands by including anthropological concepts culture, agency, power, discourse. The covers legacies, pre-disaster trends conditions, measures, system...

This study situates fuel collection and hearth activity in a rural village (Machu Picchu Historic Sanctuary, Cusco, Peru) as cultural practices essential to securing household collective production reproduction. The physical is spatially fluid, allowing it serve material symbolic center throughout the household's life cycle. All members from children elderly participate collection, providing new means of defining composition. Wood connects house uncultivated landscapes supports reciprocal...

Our article analyzes interdisciplinary literature within the social sciences on outcomes of environmental cleanups at Superfund, brownfield, and other contaminated sites. By focusing postremediation sites outcomes, we expand understanding sociopolitical life over time. First, examine technoscientific practices how scientists managers seek to make cleanup legible meaningful. Next, engage with a wider array litera ture pollution/toxicity, uncovering circular temporalities in processes along...

As resilience and adaptation considerations become mainstreamed into public policy, there is an overarching desire to measure quantify metrics indicators that seek evaluate the efficiency, effectiveness, justness associated with outcomes of such processes. While much research has sought develop specific may serve as proxies for these considerations, less focused on those normative aspects indicator design support a variety goals accuracy, reproducibility, proxy value multi-stakeholder...

We investigate the potential of 'discarding well' concept to productively reframe technomanagerial solutions operational challenges disaster waste and debris management. Drawing from interviews focus groups with government practitioners, we examine institutional norms in decision-making regarding sorting, staging, transit, treatment, final disposal. Findings expose tensions among competing implicit explicit 'goods' such as urgent recovery, environmental protection, sustainability. The...

Abstract Incorporating equity into climate resilience planning, especially through participatory processes, is important to adequately address social vulnerability and avoid reproducing inequities. Recent analyses of adaptation plans in the United States suggest that there increasing attention on justice, but a wide variation how it being incorporated implemented. Available studies planning are limited by their focus larger urban areas plan contents. This research contributes qualitative...

Summary In the Panama Canal Watershed, formulation and implementation of national park management policies has yet to realize all conservation, recreation, educational goals set for parks. We identify two underlying conditions that contribute this breakdown in policy process. First, are based on traditional United States model rather than a tailored unique ecological social context Watershed. Second, structure dynamics participating institutions do not support effective decision making...

This book presents the history of mountaineering on Mount Aconcagua (9,692 meters above sea level), highest peak in Western Hemisphere, as well a mountain itself. It traces routes from Mendoza, Argentina, to Aconcagua’s summit, with analytical stops at base camps, Inca mummies, and memorials along way. The locates these within broader trajectories neocolonial scientific adventure expeditions, regional national identity economy, flows global capital tourists. Joy Logan argues that both...