Institute for Society, Culture and Environment (ISCE)

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ISCE's mission is to foster a creative, interactive, multidisciplinary structure for socially significant research and creative efforts in the social sciences, humanities, and arts at Virginia Tech. As one of Virginia Tech's three research investment institutes, ISCE serves the entire university, with its primary constituents being faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, College of Science, Pamplin College of Business, and College of Architecture and Urban Studies. Thus, the range of academic disciplines, research and scholarly pursuits, and artistic endeavors that ISCE promotes and supports is broad and deep. ISCE primarily supports faculty activities that have the potential for extramural funding. In so doing, ISCE makes available financial and technical assistance that supports the development of individual faculty members and promotes participation in interdisciplinary teams. ISCE provides a forum for both relatively inexperienced and very seasoned faculty members to collaborate on contemporary social issues or by integrating the human element into technology and science-based research and practice.

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2012 Public Health Forum Proceedings
(Center for Public Health Practice and Research, 2012-05-14)
Proceedings from the regional public health practice and research forum held at Virginia Tech in the Spring of 2012. Participants discussed public health needs in southwest Virginia and identified next steps and action items. A list of recommendations was also developed.
APHIS Workshop on Avocado Model
Cororaton, Caesar B. (Virginia Tech, 2009-06-16)
The goals of the workshop are: (a) to discuss and learn how to code the Mexican avocado model of Peterson and Orden (2008) and (b) to run the model under various model parameters and scenarios.
Assessing the Potential Economic and Poverty Effects of the National Greening Program
Cororaton, Caesar B.; Arlene Inocencio; Tiongco, Marites; Manalang, Anna Bella (Virginia Tech, 2015-11-10)
This presentation assesses the potential economic and poverty effects of the National Greening Program in the Phillipines in 2012-2050.
Building Communities and Supporting Families: A Social Action Framework
Mancini, Jay A. (Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 2007-11-29)
Building Community Capacity: A Collaboration Engagement Framework
Mancini, Jay A. (Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 2007-11-22)
Building Community Capacity: Sustaining America's Promise Partnerships in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Mancini, Jay A.; Marek, Lydia I. (Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 2007-07-19)
Building Community Resilience and Supporting Vulnerable Populations: Social Networks and Community Capacity
Mancini, Jay A. (Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 2009-06-23)
The Challenge Of Increasing Global Trade: How To Address Linkages And Barriers
Orden, David R.; Peterson, Everett B. (Virginia Tech, 2008-02-22)
Two specific cases of trade regulation are examined in this presentation. In the case of avocados from Mexico, the U.S. market has been opened following more than a decade of related rule making. Substantial imports now occur. In a second case, China has expressed interest in exporting fresh apples to the United States. There is not a related regulatory process underway, but China received approval to export fresh apples to Canada in 2004.
Cost and Benefit Analysis of Possible Philippine Participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
Cororaton, Caesar B.; Orden, David R. (Virginia Tech, 2014-09-04)
The objective of this presentation was to quantify the effects of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on trade, especially in terms of Philippine participation.
Engagement, Participation and Community Efficacy: Insights into Social Organization
Mancini, Jay A.; Bowen, Gary L. (Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 2007-05)
Family Perceptions of Mild Cognitive Impairment
Roberto, Karen A.; Blieszner, Rosemary (Center for Gerontology, Virginia Tech, 2007-11)
Farm Policy Reform in the United States: Past Progress and Future Evolution
Orden, David R. (Virginia Tech, 2007-10-29)
This chapter examines the issues facing U.S. farm policy in 2007 and beyond in an historical context. Reforms of the main commodity programs along a cash-out and decoupling path peaked when prices were high in 1995-96. Recent buyouts, driven largely by declining production levels and revenues, have also ended supply-control quota programs for peanuts and tobacco. Then, in a setback to reduced subsidies, countercyclical payments were re-institutionalized for the main commodities in 2002, although farmers retained substantial planting flexibility. The radical option of a broader buyout of the commodity programs is an idea whose time has not arrived. Instead, farm groups sought to retain their traditional programs in 2007, despite another commodity price boom. Under budget pressure, direct payments that represent the most decoupled instrument of support of farm incomes came under scrutiny in the domestic debate but were defended by subsidy recipients.
Getting Sorted Out: Vulnerabilities, Resilience, and Homelessness
Mancini, Jay A. (Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 2009-03-27)
Grandfamilies: Parenting Satisfaction and Family Functioning
Dolbin-MacNab, Megan L.; Sanford, Nicole M.; Rodgers, Brandon E.; Stewart, Shelley K.; Finney, Jack W.; Roberto, Karen A. (Department of Human Developmen, Department of Psychology and Center for Gerontology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, 2006-10)
Previous research has demonstrated that grandparent caregivers experience high levels of physical, psychological, and relationship stress. However, few studies have examined how psychosocial and relationships. perspective, this exploratory study examined predictors of parenting satisfaction and family functioning among 40 grandmothers raising grandchildren. Parenting satisfaction was associated with lower levels of financial burden and better family functioning. More optimal family functioning was associated with higher parenting satisfaction, more social support, and grandmothers’ mental health (i.e., less depression and anxiety). Unexpectedly, higher financial burden was also associated with better family functioning. Findings suggest that the quality of custodial grandmothers’ family relationships is influenced by both individual and contextual factors. However, because social support and financial burden had the strongest influence, practitioners should pay particular attention to the impact of contextual factors on the quality of relationships within grandparent-headed families.
Health, Spirituality and Environmental Concern: Older Women's Perspectives on the Natural Environment
Husser, Erica; Gigliotti, Christina; Roberto, Karen A. (Center for Gerontology and Dept. of Human Development, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2007-11)
In Sickness and In Health: Daily Stressors and Implications of Mild Cognitive Impairment for Care Partners
Savla, Jyoti S.; Roberto, Karen A.; Blieszner, Rosemary (Center for Gerontology and Dept. of Human Development Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2009-11)
The Influences of Community Social Organization on the Well-Being of Older Adults
Mancini, Jay A. (Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 2007-09)
Intimate Partner Violence Among Older Adults: Bridging the Disciplinary Divide
McPherson, Marya C.; Brossoie, Nancy; Roberto, Karen A. (Center for Gerontology and Dept. of Human Development Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and the Women's Resource Center of the New River Valley, 2009-11)
Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Aging Women: Promoting Community Knowledge
Roberto, Karen A.; Brossoie, Nancy; McPherson, Marya C. (Center for Gerontology and Dept. of Human Development Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and the Women's Resource Center of the New River Valley, 2009-10)
“It Was Like An Elephant Sitting on My Chest”: Older Women’s Experiences With Coronary Heart Disease
Husser, Erica; Roberto, Karen A. (Center for Gerontology and Dept. of Human Development, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2006-11)

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