Roundup: December 2, 2021
Recent Publications
Deborah N. Archer (New York University Law) has published “White Men’s Roads Through Black Men’s Homes”: Advancing Racial Equity Through Highway Reconstruction in Vanderbilt Law Review.
Julia H. Haggerty (Earth Sciences, Montana State), Jennifer Dunn (History, Montana State), Grete Gansauer (Earth Sciences, Montana State), Stephanie Ewing (Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State), and Elizabeth Metcalf (Society and Conservation, University of Montana) published Social Memory and Infrastructure Governance: A Century in the Life of a Rural Drinking Water System in Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability.
Joel Cuffey (Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn) and Timothy K. M. Beatty (Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis) published Effects of Competing Food Desert Policies on Store Format Choice Among SNAP Participants in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, in collaboration with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, published Investing in Rural Prosperity, which includes contributions from 79 authors writing on rural development.
Nathan Kauffman and Ty Kreitman published an overview of agricultural credit conditions in the Tenth Federal Reserve District.
J. Tom Mueller (Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Oklahoma), Jesse E. Shircliff (Sociology and Anthropology, Utah State), and Marshall Steinbaum (Economics, Utah) published Market Concentration and Natural Resource Development in Rural America in Rural Sociology.
Christopher A. Armatas (USDA Forest Service), William T. Borrie (Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University), and Alan E. Watson (USDA Forest Service) published A Social Science Method for Public Engagement in the Context of Natural Resource Planning in the United States in Society & Natural Resources.
News & Commentary
David Condos wrote an article for The Garden City Telegram detailing the spread of murals in small towns across Kansas.
Harvest Public Media and Investigate Midwest have published a new three-part investigative reporting series, Big Ag U, that explores corporate influence on agricultural research in partiulcar at public universities across the Midwest. The three reports are here, here, and here.
Manuela Andreoni, Hiroko Tabuchi, and Albert Sun published How Americans’ Appetite for Leather in Luxury SUVs Worsens Amazon Deforestation in the New York Times.
Tom Philpott published a piece on “right-wing political operatives [who] have launched a swarm of lawsuits to oppose funding for farmers of color” in Mother Jones.
NPR’s Planet Money recently aired an episode entitled Planes, Trains, and Bad Bridges.
Niina H. Farah, writing for E&E News, has a look at tribal treaty rights and related energy law and jurisdictioal issues in ‘Right of Nature’ Tribal Case May Upend Pipeline Law.