J. Mayone Stycos’s research while affiliated with Cornell University and other places

... This was mainly in terms of access to land for recreation and requirements to increase its multifunctional land use. Pfeffer et al. (2005) report that strong private property rights often clash with efforts to regulate and improve land-use. This statement may be representative of a frequent source of conflict between agriculture and the recreational use of fringe areas. ...

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Where the urban meets the rural: an ecosystem services and regional approach for fringe planning

... As particular attitudes are often culture bound (Stycos, 1998;Evans, 1997), we limited our inquiry to studies conducted within the United States. Furthermore, a study must have assessed the participants' personal attitudes toward homosexuals or homosexuality generally to be included. ...

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Changing Heterosexuals’ Attitudes Toward Homosexuals: A Systematic Review of the Empirical Literature

... It presumed the need for an "integrated conservation and development program" (ICDP) to relieve pressure on endangered species and a fragile environment (cf. Brandon and Wells 1992;Chou et al. 1991;Stycos and Duarte 1995;White 1988). And, at least in the buffer zone, the plan suggested that a "sustainable" fishery could be fostered-primarily through severe restrictions on gear. ...

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Endangered Species and Precarious Lives in the Upper Gulf of California

... In addition to the difference in knowledge and capacity-building opportunities, other dynamics such as stakeholder involvement, structuring and related institutional power dynamics are documented [90]. Stakeholders' knowledge and capacity compliments water and related resources management in practice, the participatory monitoring and learning in integrated approaches, as well as ensuring adequate survey evaluations [82,84,[91][92][93]. Community water resource users may have both traditional and conventional knowledge about water resources governance and management and can access adequate information with the advancement in network technologies and multi-stakeholder collaborations to compel action. ...

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Integrated Water Resources Management Approaches to Improve Water Resources Governance

... Second, many social activists became upset by India and China's population stabilisation policy, calling it "coercion" (Stycos, 1991). One hundred seventy-nine countries joined the ICPD consensus, agreeing that they had a collective duty to respect and promote the right of their respective populations to decide their own reproductive outcomes, to improve their health and wellbeing, and to distribute such wellbeing more equitably among the world's many inhabitants. ...

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6. Tey Nai Peng, Cheong Kee Cheok and Rajah Rasiah 2016. . Revisiting Population and Development Nexus in Malaysia – the Past in Its Future. University of Malaya Press

... Two other town supervisors also stated that NYC used a strategy of targeting each town individually when it wanted to impose a new restriction or avoid paying property taxes, because no single town could stand up to NYC's legal resources (Interviewee A, October 1999;Interviewee D, October 1999). When NYC's land acquisition announcement validated their skepticism, NYC Watershed towns again filed the lawsuit to prevent NYC from implementing its filtration-avoidance plans (Pfeffer and Stycos 1998). ...

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Value-Laden Technocratic Management and Environmental Conflicts: The Case of the New York City Watershed Controversy

... Sin embargo, la planificación familiar, el uso de métodos anticonceptivos y la posibilidad de espaciar los embarazos planteaba serias confrontaciones con el pensamiento católico conservador de la época (Perez Ramirez, 1965;Vergara Delgado, 1967;Shea et al., 1971;Simmons, Cardona, 1974), como también encuentros entre los grupos que incorporaban el discurso marxista frente a los nacionalistas, entre ellos el dr. Hernán Vergara, psiquiatra y profesor de psicología que afirmaba que las acciones de planificación tenían como fin los intereses particulares de algunos gobernantes, que de una u otra manera funcionaban como intermediarios de las fundaciones como la Rockefeller (Stycos, 1968;Vergara Delgado, 1968) Preguntas como: ¿Podía el matrimonio no conllevar a la procreación? ¿Podían las relaciones sexuales no tener como fin último la reproducción sino el placer? ...

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The social context of the birth control debate in Colombia in the 1960s and 1970s: Politics, medicine and society

... Even in societies where women have a high participation in the labour market, men's economic status remains important in marriage formation (Teachman, Polonko, and Leigh 1987; Santow and Bracher 1994; Sweeney 2002). Thus, the greater the availability of eligible men, the higher women's probability of marriage will be (Stycos 1983; McLaughlin, Lichter, and Johnston 1993). Women's own socio-economic status can also contribute to their marriage timing. ...

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Ethnic differences in transition to first marriage in Iran: The role of marriage market, women's socio-economic status, and the process of development

... Studies have argued that there is incompatibility between employment and childbearing. This is because employment especially formal employment demands time hence, it is inflexible for child bearing and upbringing [50,51]. Moreover, it is also found women who work in more collectivized environments (including formal occupations) have fewer children than women who work in more individualized places (more informal) and those who do not work outside the home [52]. ...

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Determinants of fertility in Malawi: Does women autonomy dimension matter?

... Insight into educational outcomes can be used to aid local governments to develop or refine policies and interventions. 17 In this case, interventions relate to achievement of ZIKV control. ...

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Zika Virus: Knowledge Assessment of Residents and Health-Care Providers in Roatán, Honduras, following an Outbreak