36 results on '"Kristal Jones"'
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2. Expanding 'Good' Mother Discourse
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Tabitha Stickel, Kristal Jones, and Brandn Green
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- 2022
3. Evidence supports the potential for climate-smart agriculture in Tanzania
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Kristal Jones, Andreea Nowak, Erika Berglund, Willow Grinnell, Emmanuel Temu, Birthe Paul, Leah L.R. Renwick, Peter Steward, Todd S. Rosenstock, and Anthony A. Kimaro
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Ecology ,Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality ,Safety Research ,Food Science - Published
- 2023
4. Stigma and behavioral health literacy among individuals with proximity to mental health or substance use conditions
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Brandn Green, William Dyar, Rob Lyerla, Mark Skidmore, and Kristal Jones
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Psychiatry ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Substance-Related Disorders ,Public health ,Social Stigma ,Stigma (botany) ,Health literacy ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Stigma reduction ,Mental health ,Health Literacy ,030227 psychiatry ,Substance abuse ,03 medical and health sciences ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Health services ,Mental Health ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Substance use ,Psychology - Abstract
Stigma reduction has been identified as a key public health strategy to increase enrollment in behavioral health services. As our understanding about stigma reduction has become more sophisticated, there has been an increased recognition that efforts to reduce stigma must engage the complex relationships between stigma, literacy, and contact with others who have a behavioral health condition.The goal of this project was to improve understanding about the relationships between behavioral health literacy, stigma, and contact to inform efforts to increase public behavioral health literacy and decrease stigma. Specifically, this project explored how the structure of these relationships varied for different substance use and mental health conditions.Structural equation modeling was used to depict relationships with data from a nationally-representative survey on behavioral health literacy and stigma.The impact of prior contact and literacy on stigma varied by behavioral health condition.Stigma reduction efforts will be most successful when they match the level of literacy and prior contact with the condition among the target audience for stigma reduction efforts.
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- 2020
5. Qualitative data sharing and synthesis for sustainability science
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Steven M. Alexander, Nicole Motzer, Patricia Pinto da Silva, Heather Randell, Edward T. Game, Julie A. Silva, Sebastian Karcher, R. Dean Hardy, Amber E. Budden, Carly Strasser, Kristal Jones, Jay T. Johnson, Michael Cox, Andrew Stuhl, Nathan J. Bennett, Nic Weber, Jeremy Pittman, Mercè Crosas, Colleen Strawhacker, and Janis Geary
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Global and Planetary Change ,Knowledge management ,Ecology ,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,business.industry ,Computer science ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Sustainability science ,Qualitative property ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,Information repository ,Reuse ,Urban Studies ,Sustainability ,business ,Nature and Landscape Conservation ,Food Science - Abstract
Socio–environmental synthesis as a research approach contributes to broader sustainability policy and practice by reusing data from disparate disciplines in innovative ways. Synthesizing diverse data sources and types of evidence can help to better conceptualize, investigate and address increasingly complex socio–environmental problems. However, sharing qualitative data for re-use remains uncommon when compared to sharing quantitative data. We argue that qualitative data present untapped opportunities for sustainability science, and discuss practical pathways to facilitate and realize the benefits from sharing and reusing qualitative data. However, these opportunities and benefits are also hindered by practical, ethical and epistemological challenges. To address these challenges and accelerate qualitative data sharing, we outline enabling conditions and suggest actions for researchers, institutions, funders, data repository managers and publishers. Opportunities, challenges and recommended targeted actions to accelerate qualitative data sharing to address complex socio–environmental problems
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- 2019
6. Does crop diversity at the village level influence child nutrition security? Evidence from 11 sub-Saharan African countries
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Brian C. Thiede, Kristal Jones, and Daniel Tobin
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Sub saharan ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Public health ,Dietary diversity ,Microdata (statistics) ,respiratory system ,010501 environmental sciences ,Environmental Science (miscellaneous) ,01 natural sciences ,Child health ,Geography ,Empirical research ,Crop diversity ,Public use ,medicine ,Socioeconomics ,human activities ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Demography - Abstract
Diversifying crop production has been proposed as a means of reducing food and nutrition insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa, but previous empirical studies yield mixed results. Much of this evidence has focused at the household level, but there are plausible reasons to expect that the presence of crop diversity at other scales affects human health. Utilizing data from 11 sub-Saharan African countries housed in the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)-Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) system, this study assesses the association between village-level crop diversity and both dietary diversity and height-for-age among young children. Our findings indicate that, overall, village-level crop diversity contributes to higher dietary diversity and improved height-for-age and that functional diversity measures best account for nutritional outcomes. These findings provide an important basis for future research to explore the importance of crop diversity at scales beyond the household and to consider other contextual determinants of child health.
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- 2019
7. Reciprocity, redistribution and relational values: organizing and motivating sustainable agriculture
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Kristal Jones and Daniel Tobin
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Operationalization ,business.industry ,Management science ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,General Social Sciences ,021107 urban & regional planning ,02 engineering and technology ,Value type ,Redistribution (cultural anthropology) ,010501 environmental sciences ,01 natural sciences ,Agricultural sustainability ,Agriculture ,Sustainable agriculture ,Sustainability ,Human ecology ,Sociology ,business ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,General Environmental Science - Abstract
This paper integrates historical and contemporary theorizations of relational values in both people–nature and people–people relationships, in order to further develop concepts used to analyze how values are embedded in systems of human–environment interactions. We focus on people–people relational values that can motivate sustainable agricultural practices, projects and systems by drawing on Polanyi’s articulation of substantive economics, and the distinction between the principles that organize economic systems and the ability of those systems to express multiple types of values. We apply these concepts to characterize how relational values are operationalized within sustainable agriculture projects, and we review how descriptions of such projects in the literature characterize their organizing principles and specific values. Our review suggests that instrumental and relational values can coexist within a single system, and we argue that it is the values, and not the organizing principles of the system, that determine potential impacts of agricultural sustainability.
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- 2018
8. Integrating evidence of potential impacts of climate-smart agriculture in Tanzania
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Kristal Jones, Andreea Nowak, Erika Berglund, Willow Grinnell, Emmanuel Temu, Birthe Paul, Leah Renwick, Peter Steward, Todd S. Rosenstock, and Anthony Kimaro
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National governments across Sub-Saharan Africa include climate-smart agriculture (CSA) - context-specific interventions that support resilience, productivity, and climate mitigation-in plans and policies and strategies to jointly address climate change, agricultural production and rural livelihood goals. This paper synthesizes the evidence on field-based CSA management practices generated through ten years of research led by the CGIAR in Tanzania, an agriculturally diverse country in East Africa that has prioritized climate-smart agriculture practices in its climate adaptation strategies. Tanzania provides an illustrative example of how countries can use evidence of impacts, synergies and tradeoffs to prioritize activities for sustainable development.
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- 2021
9. Access to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment for Pregnant and Postpartum Women: Challenges, Barriers and Opportunities in Montana
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Brandn Green, Kristal Jones, Katie Loveland, and Tabitha Stickel
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medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,medicine ,Opioid use disorder ,Psychiatry ,medicine.disease ,business - Published
- 2021
10. Understanding treatment approaches for stimulant use disorder in Montana
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Kristal Jones and Brandn Green
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Stimulant ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Medicine ,business ,Psychiatry - Published
- 2021
11. Veterans’ access to medication for opioid use disorders in Montana
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Matthew R Filteau, Brandn Green, and Kristal Jones
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medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Opioid use ,Medicine ,business ,Psychiatry - Published
- 2021
12. Perceptions on the use of recycled water for produce irrigation and household tasks: A comparison between Israeli and Palestinian consumers
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Kristal Jones, Clive Lipchin, Amy R. Sapkota, Younes Rjoub, and Hillary A. Craddock
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Agricultural irrigation ,Irrigation ,Environmental Engineering ,Middle East ,Agricultural Irrigation ,business.industry ,Water ,General Medicine ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,Wastewater ,Water scarcity ,Arabs ,Outreach ,Agriculture ,Humans ,Sewage treatment ,Perception ,Business ,Socioeconomics ,Waste Management and Disposal - Abstract
Water scarcity has resulted in extensive wastewater recycling for agricultural irrigation in both Israel and the Palestinian Territories. However, minimal data have been collected regarding perceptions about wastewater recycling between the populations in these two areas. While geographically close and economically linked, these two populations differ in terms of governance, income, and access to technology for wastewater recycling. To address the data gap pertaining to perceptions of wastewater recycling, a survey was administered among a convenience sample of subjects (n = 236) recruited from Eilat, Israel and Bethlehem, West Bank, from May to November 2018. The survey included questions addressing knowledge of water sources, water scarcity, and recycled water; willingness to use recycled water for produce irrigation and household tasks; and demographics. Israeli willingness to use recycled water for various purposes ranged from 8.3% to 55.1%, and more than half of Israeli respondents were willing to serve both raw and cooked produce irrigated with recycled water. Willingness to use recycled water ranged from 28.9% to 41.7% among the Palestinian respondents, and Palestinian respondents were more willing to engage in high-contact uses (i.e. drinking and cooking) than Israeli respondents. Among the Israeli respondents, experience or familiarity with wastewater recycling and water contamination were frequently significantly associated with willingness to use recycled water. In contrast, among Palestinian respondents, personal water contamination experience, home water safety testing, and trust in authorities to monitor recycled wastewater reuse were frequently significantly associated with willingness to use recycled water. Given the likely increasing water stress in both Israel and the Palestinian Territories, as well as the continued evolution of wastewater treatment technologies and the substantial amount of agricultural trade ongoing between Israel and the Palestinian Territories, it is important to identify effective and appropriate outreach and communication strategies to enable successful and acceptable water recycling.
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- 2020
13. Quantifying ecological and social drivers of ecological surprise
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Matthew J. Burke, Jeremy Pittman, Steven M. Alexander, Heather A. Haig, Celia C. Symons, Karen Filbee-Dexter, Kristal Jones, and Garcia, Cristina
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0106 biological sciences ,Resource (biology) ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Life on Land ,spatial temporal mismatch ,Environmental Science and Management ,media_common.quotation_subject ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,social-ecological system ,fishery collapse ,Economics ,Ecosystem ,Natural resource management ,Temporal scales ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,media_common ,mountain pine beetle ,Operationalization ,Ecology ,structural equation model ,15. Life on land ,Surprise ,eutrophication ,natural resource management ,13. Climate action ,Social system ,ecological surprise ,Ecological Applications ,Management system - Abstract
Author(s): Filbee-Dexter, K; Symons, CC; Jones, K; Haig, HA; Pittman, J; Alexander, SM; Burke, MJ | Abstract: A key challenge facing ecologists and ecosystem managers is understanding what drives unexpected shifts in ecosystems and limits the effectiveness of human interventions. Research that integrates and analyses data from natural and social systems can provide important insight for unravelling the complexity of these dynamics. It is, therefore, a critical step towards the development of evidence-based, whole-system management approaches. To examine our ability to influence ecosystems that are behaving in unexpected ways, we explore three prominent cases of “ecological surprise.” We captured the social-ecological systems (SES) using key variables and interactions from Ostrom’s SES framework, which integrates broader ecosystem processes (e.g. climate, connectivity), management variables (e.g. quotas, restrictions, monitoring), resource use behaviours (e.g. harvesting) and the resource unit (e.g. trees, fish, clean water) being managed. Structural equation modelling revealed that management interventions often influenced resource use behaviours (e.g. rules and limits strongly affected harvest or pollution), but they did not have a significant effect on the abundance of the managed resource. Instead, most resource variability was related to ecological processes and feedbacks operating at broader spatial or temporal scales than management interventions, which locked the resource system into the degraded state. Synthesis and applications. Mismatch between the influence of management systems and ecosystem processes can limit the effectiveness of human interventions during periods of ecological surprise. Management strategies should shift from a conventional focus on removal or addition of a single resource towards solutions that influence the broader ecosystem. Operationalizing Ostrom’s framework to quantitatively analyse social-ecological systems using structural equation models shows promise for testing solutions to navigate these events.
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- 2018
14. Barriers to Community Treatment for Opioid Use Disorders among Rural Veterans
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Matthew R Filteau, Brandn Green, and Kristal Jones
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medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Opioid use ,medicine ,Psychiatry ,business - Published
- 2021
15. Place and Large Landscape Conservation along the Susquehanna River
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Kristal Jones and Brandn Green
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Sociology and Political Science ,Heuristic ,business.industry ,Environmental resource management ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,021107 urban & regional planning ,Landscape conservation ,02 engineering and technology ,010501 environmental sciences ,Environmental Science (miscellaneous) ,Development ,01 natural sciences ,Natural resource ,Natural (archaeology) ,Geography ,Place theory ,business ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
Place theory can be used in natural resource sociology as a heuristic for identifying and incorporating differences in human and natural systems into large landscape conservation efforts. This pape...
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- 2017
16. Social institutions mediating seed access in West African seed systems
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Kristal Jones
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Economic efficiency ,Economic growth ,Multidisciplinary ,Agricultural development ,social institutions ,Livelihood ,West africa ,West african ,agricultural development ,West Africa ,seed systems ,Production (economics) ,lcsh:Q ,Business ,Social institution ,lcsh:L ,lcsh:Science ,Seed system ,lcsh:Education - Abstract
Contemporary approaches to market-oriented agricultural development focus on increasing production and economic efficiency to improve livelihoods and well-being. For seed system development, this has meant a focus on seed value chains predicated on standardized economic transactions and improved variety seeds. Building formal seed systems requires establishing and strengthening social institutions that reflect the market-oriented values of efficiency and standardization, institutions that often do not currently exist in many local and informal seed systems. This paper describes and analyzes efforts to develop formal seed systems in Sahelian West Africa over the past 10 years, and identifies the impacts for farmers of the social institutions that constitute formal seed systems. Using qualitative and spatial data and analysis, the paper characterizes farmers’ and communities’ experiences with seed access through the newly established formal seed system. The results demonstrate that the social and spatial extents of the formal and informal seed systems are extended and integrated through social institutions that reflect values inherent in both systems. The impacts of current market-oriented agricultural development projects are, therefore, more than in the past, in part because the social institutions associated with them are less singular in their vision for productive and economic efficiency.
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- 2017
17. Double Movement in Hybrid Governance
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J. Dara Bloom, Kristal Jones, and Daniel Tobin
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Value (ethics) ,Civil society ,Agricultural development ,business.industry ,050204 development studies ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Corporate governance ,05 social sciences ,010501 environmental sciences ,Development ,01 natural sciences ,Negotiation ,Agriculture ,Political science ,0502 economics and business ,Double Movement ,Contradiction ,Economic system ,business ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,media_common - Abstract
In this paper, we apply Polanyi's double movement to characterize the potential and observed impacts of public-private and public-philanthropic partnerships for the development of pro-poor value chains. We highlight the contradiction between the goals of these partnerships in international agricultural development, which seek to shift power dynamics and counter market exclusion, and the internal logic of these hybrid governance approaches, which reflect the tensions of market society from which they come. We present case studies from Honduras, Peru, and Mali of agricultural public-private and public-philanthropic partnerships and their constituent actors, identifying roles and relationships among actors that personify double movement negotiations within pro-poor market-oriented development. The cases highlight the implications for civil society actors of hybrid governance systems that utilize market mechanisms to address the destructive tendencies of capitalist development. We conclude that partnerships characterized by a mismatch of responsibilities and power relations among civil society and private actors generate a new type of double movement that does not generate durable institutions and that limits the impacts of the partnerships for poor farmers.
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- 2017
18. Trends in the Global Food System and Implications for Institutional Foodservice
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Gina E. Castillo, Kristal Jones, and Kimberly Pfeifer
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Civil society ,Equity (economics) ,Public economics ,Poverty ,Agriculture ,business.industry ,Sustainability ,Public policy ,Food systems ,Business ,Livelihood - Abstract
Actors in contemporary food systems have the potential to contribute to or hinder a broad range of outcomes related to human and environmental health and well-being, as well as to increase equity and sustainability along food value chains. At the same time, health professionals, food and agriculture businesses, environmental and poverty activists, and policymakers have all begun to acknowledge a core set of interrelated food systems challenges, namely: How to produce enough food in a sustainable manner, how to support those who produce our food to earn a viable livelihood, and how to access and maintain a healthy diet. Transformation of the global food system is clearly needed if we wish to embed equity, sustainability, and health as priorities in food provision and consumption. Some of these transformations will be facilitated through new technologies, while others will require public policy shifts, changes in the private agro-food industry, actions by civil society, and behavioral changes by individuals. This chapter presents an overview of alternative food initiatives led by non-profit organizations, public and private institutions, and consumers, all of which are proactively working to generate positive changes and impacts along food value chains. These efforts are transforming not only what people eat, but also how they think of food in relation to issues such as climate change, environmental degradation, and social justice. In this dynamic context, institutional foodservice actors and the consumers they serve sit at an important nexus within the food system, and have the potential to make decisions that cut across the challenges and opportunities to improve food system outcomes for people and the environment.
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- 2019
19. Contributors
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Peter H. Allison, Catherine Bartoli, Thomas M. Bass, Deborah Bentzel, Megan Bucknum, Carmen Byker Shanks, Christine C. Caruso, Gina Castillo, Kathryn Colasanti, Lindsey Day Farnsworth, Alexa Delwiche, Jonathan Deutsch, Claire M. Fitch, Benjamin Fulton, Annelies M. Goger, Kristal Jones, Kendra Klein, Hannah R. Leighton, Elise Littler, Colleen Matts, Colleen McKinney, Kristie Middleton, Brandy-Joe Milliron, Kranti Mulik, Jenna Newbrey, Kimberly Pfeifer, Nessa J. Richman, Amy Rosenthal, Raychel E. Santo, Joel B. Schumacher, Emma Sirois, Sapna E. Thottathil, Kaitlin K. Wojciak, and Alexandra Zeitz
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- 2019
20. 'If you study, the last thing you want to be is working under the sun:' an analysis of perceptions of agricultural education and occupations in four countries
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Rebecca J. Williams, Thomas Gill, and Kristal Jones
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Economic growth ,business.industry ,Field (Bourdieu) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Agricultural education ,050301 education ,Developing country ,04 agricultural and veterinary sciences ,Livelihood ,Focus group ,Order (exchange) ,Agriculture ,Perception ,040103 agronomy & agriculture ,Economics ,0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries ,business ,0503 education ,Agronomy and Crop Science ,media_common - Abstract
Agriculture plays a key role in national economies and individual livelihoods in many developing countries, and yet agriculture as a field of study and an occupation remain under-emphasized in many educational systems. In addition, working in agriculture is often perceived as being less desirable than other fields, and not a viable or compelling option for students who have received a post-secondary education. This article explores the historical and contemporary perceptions of agriculture as a field of study and an occupation globally, and applies themes from the literature to analyze primary data from focus groups with international students studying for university degrees in the United States. The article analyzes students’ perceptions and experiences in four countries—Bangladesh, Nepal, Honduras and Haiti—in order to make recommendations about how best to address challenges and develop capacity in agricultural education and employment in low-income countries.
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- 2016
21. Using a Theory of Practice to Clarify Epistemological Challenges in Mixed Methods Research: An Example of Theorizing, Modeling, and Mapping Changing West African Seed Systems
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Kristal Jones
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Practice theory ,Multimethodology ,05 social sciences ,0507 social and economic geography ,050401 social sciences methods ,Foundation (evidence) ,Education ,Epistemology ,West african ,0504 sociology ,Reflexivity ,Sociology ,Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty ,050703 geography ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) - Abstract
This article argues that Bourdieu’s theory of practice offers a unified epistemological foundation for mixed methods research by emphasizing the reflexive and iterative nature of knowing, and the relational aspects of knowledge construction. The increasing presence of spatial data and tools in research fields that focus on sociospatial phenomena suggests that visual representation can facilitate the resituating of objective patterns within a subjective context of geographic and symbolic space. The article presents the foundations of the theory of practice as a unifying framework for mixed methods research that incorporates spatiality. The article then offers an example of empirical research that characterizes changing seed systems in West Africa using the theory of practice to guide mixed methods research and analysis.
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- 2015
22. Calculating an Adequate System Tool (CAST): CAST manual
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Donna F. Stroup, Rob Lyerla, Kristal Jones, and Brandn Green
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- 2018
23. Improving Health in or of the Community?
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Brandn Green and Kristal Jones
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medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Public health ,Public relations ,Health outcomes ,Social space ,medicine ,Social ecological model ,Social determinants of health ,Sociology ,business ,Location ,Meaning (linguistics) ,Theme (narrative) - Abstract
Recognizing that community is both a geographic and social space, public health professionals have historically worked to improve health within the community as well as to improve the health of the community. Beginning with the first Healthy People report in 1979, community has been a central theme in public documents which outline the priorities of federal public health agencies. Over the course of four subsequent documents, the meaning of community has been fluid and evolving, and has incorporated the social determinants of health, the ecological model of influence, and broader concepts about the role of place in health outcomes. This chapter identifies the concept of community within each of these documents to provide a critical engagement with the concept of community in American public health over the past forty years. The chapter concludes that the concept of community has shifted from being the geographic location of public health interventions to being the problem for public health interventions, a distinction reflected in the contrast between making a community healthy by improving health within it or making a healthy community by improving the health of the community. Understanding the different possible conceptualizations of community within public health that have existed in the recent past and present in American public health can help practitioners and those working with local organizations to better understand the range of goals and approaches taken by those working on public health issues within communities.
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- 2018
24. Hot and dry: stability and simplicity in dormancy and austerity
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Kristal Jones
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Sustainable development ,Human systems engineering ,Ecology ,media_common.quotation_subject ,0208 environmental biotechnology ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Climate change ,Environmental ethics ,02 engineering and technology ,020801 environmental engineering ,West africa ,Austerity ,Social system ,Economics ,Dormancy ,Simplicity ,General Environmental Science ,media_common - Abstract
With climate change at the forefront of the popular imagination, understanding how heat shapes human experience of place can provide insight into how human systems have persisted and can persist as temperatures rise. Exploring the human-environment interactions that shape human experience in different types of hot places complicates the perception of heat as being hopeless and dreaded. Dormancy and austerity are human articulations of characteristics of the natural environment in hot dry places, characteristics that are reflected as well in stable and simple social systems. When expectations for the human experience incorporate fundamental aspects of life in a specific climate, the innovations of history and necessity rise to the surface and provide a road map for sustaining viable societies as temperatures change and rise.
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- 2015
25. International political economy of agricultural research and development
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Leland Glenna, Barbara Brandl, and Kristal Jones
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Agriculture ,business.industry ,Political economy ,Economics ,International political economy ,business - Published
- 2015
26. Students Implement the Affordable Care Act: A Model for Undergraduate Teaching and Research in Community Health and Sociology
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Carl Milofsky, Kristal Jones, Neil M. Boyd, Brandn Green, and Eric C. Martin
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Models, Educational ,Health (social science) ,Universities ,Nursing ,Health care ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION ,Humans ,Community psychology ,Community Health Services ,Sociology ,Health policy ,HRHIS ,Medical education ,Community engagement ,business.industry ,Health Policy ,Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ,Research ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,International health ,Pennsylvania ,Community-Institutional Relations ,United States ,Health promotion ,Community health ,Curriculum ,Power, Psychological ,business - Abstract
The implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides an opportunity for undergraduate students to observe and experience first-hand changing social policies and their impacts for individuals and communities. This article overviews an action research and teaching project developed at an undergraduate liberal arts university and focused on providing ACA enrollment assistance as a way to support student engagement with community health. The project was oriented around education, enrollment and evaluation activities in the community, and students and faculty together reflected on and analyzed the experiences that came from the research and outreach project. Student learning centered around applying concepts of diversity and political agency to health policy and community health systems. Students reported and faculty observed an unexpected empowerment for students who were able to use their university-learned critical thinking skills to explain complex systems to a wide range of audiences. In addition, because the project was centered at a university with no health professions programs, the project provided students interested in community and public health with the opportunity to reflect on how health and access to health care is conditioned by social context. The structure and pedagogical approaches and implications of the action research and teaching project is presented here as a case study for how to engage undergraduates in questions of community and public health through the lens of health policy and community engagement.
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- 2014
27. Should I stay or should I go? Incorporating a commitment to fieldwork throughout an academic career
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Matthew A. Schnurr, Edward R. Carr, William G Moseley, and Kristal Jones
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business.industry ,Field (Bourdieu) ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Professional development ,Assertion ,Public relations ,Work (electrical) ,Reflexivity ,Professional ethics ,Applied research ,Sociology ,business ,International development ,Social psychology ,Earth-Surface Processes - Abstract
In this paper, four researchers who share a commitment to applied research and fieldwork methodologies reflect on the ambiguities associated with maintaining and adapting this commitment to changing professional, personal, and contextual situations. The authors focus on the use of fieldwork for the study and support of agricultural change in sub-Saharan Africa, as an example of a setting and topic in which long-term work in the field can improve understanding and support contextualized development. In analyzing a range of experiences associated with maintaining and adapting fieldwork approaches, we complicate and build upon the assertion that professional development pulls international development practitioners and applied researchers away from the field. The experiences analyzed in this paper suggest that the situation of changing orientations toward the field is not dichotomous, and that instead, a commitment to fieldwork can result in innovative approaches to remaining at least partially focused ‘outw...
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- 2014
28. Assessing participatory processes and outcomes in agricultural research for development from participants' perspectives
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Leland Glenna, Kristal Jones, and Eva Weltzien
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Economic growth ,Food security ,Sociology and Political Science ,business.industry ,Process (engineering) ,Qualitative interviews ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Citizen journalism ,Development ,Public relations ,Research process ,West africa ,Test (assessment) ,Agriculture ,Sociology ,business ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS - Abstract
To analyze the experiences of farmers involved in a participatory plant breeding project in West Africa, we develop a two-dimensional framework for evaluating the process and outcomes of participatory agricultural research for development projects. On one axis, we draw on existing typologies to describe the participatory process as consultative, collaborative, or collegial. On another axis, we theorize and test the outcomes of participation; specifically, whether the process achieves instrumental goals, is empowering for participants, or is manipulative toward participants. Qualitative interviews with farmers and technicians indicate a range of instrumental and empowering outcomes emerging from the participatory process, which support food security through access to seeds and a new ability to share information learned through the research process.
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- 2014
29. Introduction to understandings of place: a multidisciplinary symposium
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Kristal Jones and Brandn Green
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Sustainable development ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Multidisciplinary approach ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Sustainability ,Place theory ,Environmental ethics ,Sociology ,Rural sociology ,010501 environmental sciences ,01 natural sciences ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,General Environmental Science - Published
- 2015
30. Growing Resistance: Canadian Farmers and the Politics of Genetically Modified Wheat, by Emily Eaton, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2013. 187 pp. $31.95 (paper). ISBN: 0-88755-744-6
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Kristal Jones
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Politics ,Sociology and Political Science ,Resistance (ecology) ,Political science ,Economic history ,Environmental ethics ,Genetically modified wheat - Published
- 2015
31. Food sovereignty
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John T. Eshleman and Kristal Jones
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Corporate governance ,Political economy ,Political science ,Food sovereignty ,Social movement - Published
- 2016
32. Implementing the Affordable Care Act in Central Pennsylvania
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Brandn Green, Carl Milofsky, and Kristal Jones
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Economic growth ,business.industry ,Environmental health ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Health insurance ,Medicine ,Health law ,Social determinants of health ,business - Published
- 2014
33. Seeds, Science, and Struggle: The Global Politics of Transgenic Crops, by Abby Kinchy, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012. 240 pp. $22 (paper). ISBN: 0-262-51774-4
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Kristal Jones
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Sociology and Political Science ,Political science ,Political economy ,Genetically modified crops ,Global politics - Published
- 2013
34. Implementing the Affordable Care Act in Central Pennsylvania
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Brandn Q, Green, Kristal, Jones, and Carl, Milofsky
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Insurance, Health ,Social Determinants of Health ,Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ,Humans ,Tax Exemption ,Rural Health Services ,Pennsylvania ,Health Services Accessibility - Published
- 2014
35. Genetically Engineered Crops and Rural Society
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Leland Glenna and Kristal Jones
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ComputingMilieux_GENERAL ,Rural society ,Genetically engineered ,Agriculture ,business.industry ,Natural resource economics ,Business ,Genetically modified crops ,Technology development ,Social dimension - Abstract
This paper seeks to contribute to the genetically engineered crop debates by exploring some social dimensions of new agricultural technologies. After assessing the social dimensions of current GE crops as they relate to agricultural research and development, we examine issues related to farmer adoption of GE crops. We conclude with a discussion on obstacles to socially equitable agricultural innovation and potential policy solutions. We contend that failing to consider these social dimensions of technology development and diffusion are likely to generate unforeseen problems and unsustainable technological developments.
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- 2014
36. Familial Felty's syndrome
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E B Hamilton, Kristal Jones, L M Blendis, and Rebecca J. Williams
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Male ,Genetics ,business.industry ,Immunology ,MEDLINE ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Bioinformatics ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Felty's syndrome ,Pedigree ,Inheritance (object-oriented programming) ,Rheumatology ,Rheumatoid arthritis ,Felty Syndrome ,medicine ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Female ,business ,Aged ,Research Article - Abstract
A family is described in which the mother and 2 of the 5 children had Felty's syndrome, a pattern of inheritance suggesting a dominant defect and one which has not previously been reported. The family is also of interest in that the other sib had rheumatoid arthritis.
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- 1976
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