UCA political science professor T. Clay Arnold published “The Moral Economy and Politics of Water in the Arid American West” in Charles Brown and Ted Toadvine, ed., Nature’s Edge: Boundary Explorations in Ecological Theory and Practice, SUNY Press, pp. 161-175.
Mary Sue Passe-Smith, Lecturer in UCA’s Department of Geography, this summer presented a paper entitled “Planning for Disaster by Pinpointing Populations Vulnerable to Hazards” at the 27th Annual ESRI International GIS User Conference in San Diego, California. She constructed a weighted vulnerability index for areas affected by Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and Mississippi using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), based on a recently published county-level study, but with much finer detail (at the census block group level). The outcome was correlated with the distribution of Katrina fatalities both visually and statistically to test the predictive capabilities of the resultant index. Indices of this type can pinpoint specifically where special needs planning and extra attention should be focused prior to onset by emergency managers, as well as on education efforts at both the K-12 and adult levels.
Michael Hargis in UCA’s Department of Marketing and Management published the article “A Multidimensional Approach for Evaluating Variables in Organizational Research and Practice” in Personnel Psychology (Volume 60, Number 2) with co-authors James M. LeBreton, Brain Greipentrog, Frederick Oswald, and Robert Ployhart. Personnel Psychology is frequently considered one of the top journals in the field of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.
