Due to the limited applicability of conventional protein identification methods to the proteomes
of organisms with unsequenced genomes, researchers have developed approaches to …

The expansion of land used for crop production causes variable direct and indirect greenhouse
gas emissions, and other economic, social and environmental effects. We analyse the …

Tourism, like much else in the social world, is undergoing a dramatic transformation. One
way to look at these changes is to argue that they constitute a stage that is continuous with …

In this study, we build on recent social disorganization research, estimating models of the
relationships between disorder, burglary, cohesion, and fear of crime using a sample of …

This book examines the conflict theory of social control, particularly the threat hypothesis. It
asserts that deviance and crime control are responses to social threats such as criminal acts …

Recent legislative mandates have been enacted at state and federal levels with the purpose
of reducing life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transportation fuels. This …

Biofuels growth also will influence efforts to meet two sets of longer-run development targets.
5 The first encompasses the goals of a “sustainability transition,” articulated by the Board …

Fear of crime has emerged as a significant social issue. Survey research suggests that it
has significantly increased since the mid-1960s and that it has become a component of the …

Recent research, drawing on the conflict perspective, has examined the effect of the racial/economic
composition of macrosocial units on the capacity for crime control (arrest rates). The …

Social control theory hypothesizes that ties to conventional institutions control or inhibit most
people most of the time from acting on deviant motives. Our research examines the …